Ask HN: As people in “tech”, are we inside an AI echo chamber?

Re:Ask HN: As people in “tech”, are we inside an AI echo cha... by mcguire on Monday July 03, 2023 @01:27PM (#36576192)

I hate to point this out but as a regular user, recommendation engines and search have not gotten better in the last, say, 10 years. (Although that may not be true in terms of selling advertising and propaganda, both of which I tend not to pay a lot of attention to.)

Likewise, speech to text and language translation are more available, but they're still pretty bad. And computer vision is much better than 10 years ago, but I wouldn't bet anyone's life on it.

And yet, the hype train is still gaining momentum. Having been through more than my share of AI winters, I can feel another one coming and it's going to be bad.

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Re:Ask HN: As people in “tech”, are we inside an AI echo cha... by disgruntledphd2 on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:06PM (#36590408)

I agree with you, but I started predicting an AI winter in like 2016. I thought the failure of self driving would kill it, but apparently not.

I've predicted 9 of the last 1 AI winters.

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