Ask HN: Have we reached ChatGPT article saturation yet?

Posted by sph on Thursday February 02, 2023 @03:59AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Have a look at the current front page. It's been a couple days at least that ChatGPT and AI articles have filled at least 1/3rd of it.

Lisp on here is cyclical, arrives like a comet, showers us with articles about it, and leaves for months at a time. It's always a lovely sight.

We have had the Erlang days, that were so bad pg had to personally intervene.

Then there was the Bitcoin phase, and that also required a divine hand to stop it from getting out of hand.

Now it's another AI hype era, both in Computer Science and on this site. Have we reached maximum ChatGPT hype yet? For something so technologically advanced yet accessible to anyone, there awaits us a massive pile of written word on it for the foreseeable future, and personally, I have started to tune it out.

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Re:Ask HN: Have we reached ChatGPT article saturation yet? by tannhaeuser on Thursday February 02, 2023 @10:08AM (#34627506)

Ask ChatGPT! I'm pessimistic though, since last year's "stable diffusion" hype was only stopped when it was replaced by the ChatGPT.

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Re:Ask HN: Have we reached ChatGPT article saturation yet? by mattpallissard on Thursday February 02, 2023 @10:12AM (#34627575)

Eh, I'll take the chatgpt hype over the periodic discussion of JS frameworks.

Personally I'm not interested in either chatgpt or front end, but at least AI/ML/whatever posts get people arm-chair philosophizing, which is interesting in itself.

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Re:Ask HN: Have we reached ChatGPT article saturation yet? by weatherlight on Thursday February 02, 2023 @11:49AM (#34629219)

What were the "the Erlang days?"

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Re:Ask HN: Have we reached ChatGPT article saturation yet? by virtueman on Friday February 03, 2023 @11:34PM (#34651564)

March 3rd, 2009

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145

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Re:Ask HN: Have we reached ChatGPT article saturation yet? by mock-possum on Thursday February 02, 2023 @01:04PM (#34630557)

We have for my sensibilities - I’ve been experiencing some serious AI/ML fatigue lately.

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Re:Ask HN: Have we reached ChatGPT article saturation yet? by replwoacause on Thursday February 02, 2023 @04:44PM (#34633596)

I can't speak for others, but I'm getting damn close to peak saturation.

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Re:Ask HN: Have we reached ChatGPT article saturation yet? by notfed on Friday February 03, 2023 @02:49AM (#34638375)

Oh fellow hacker, don't be so blue. Of ChatGPT and AI you're feeling through. Cycles come and cycles go. It's all part of the hacker show.

Lisp comes like a shooting star, And leaves us all with new ideas to ponder. Erlang had its day, that's true But with PG's help, we made it through.

And Bitcoin, oh what a phase. A divine hand was needed to keep the craze. But now AI takes center stage. A massive pile of written words we must engage.

But don't let it all make you snooze. Take a break, read something new. For knowledge is what we all pursue. And in this endless ocean, we'll always find something new to do.

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Re:Ask HN: Have we reached ChatGPT article saturation yet? by moomoo11 on Friday February 03, 2023 @04:56AM (#34639277)

I think it’s only the beginning. This is just a text ai that actually works most of the time for most things (granted you take some care crafting your prompt).

Imagine when it’s voice and physically interactive. I’d love to have a Boston robotics dog that I can talk to and work together. Or the bro robot who moves on two legs. Imagine a road trip with the dog and the bro. Bro.

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