News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on AI is too expensive. Parent comment

Re:AI is too expensive by BoredPositron on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @12:28PM (#48195536)
Probably the worst comparison I have seen on the topic. gz.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AI is too expensive by TheSkyHasEyes on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @12:39PM (#48195681)
Eventually you come to realize the more things change the more they stay the same.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AI is too expensive by BoredPositron on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @12:49PM (#48195853)
Sorry but no. It's a flawed analogy to suggest that an emerging technology like AI follows the same scaling laws as the taxi industry. AI benefits from active R&D, rapidly improving hardware, compounding software efficiencies, and deflationary cost curves that simply have no equivalent in a labor- and vehicle-dependent service...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AI is too expensive by grebc on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @01:47PM (#48196626)
Yeah. And we were going to use blockchains & ledgers to store & process every single skerrick of data possible… oh wait…
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AI is too expensive by BoredPositron on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @04:30PM (#48199125)
post modern crypto was and never will be useful...
[ Parent | on HN ]