Are You Tired of AI? I'm so tired of seeing content about AI all the time. Everywhere I look there is always AI. I love the things that people do by spending their time and effort. AI does not appeal to me. What are your opinions on this subject? |
What does get old is the barrage of hyped-up projects that are a veneer-thin layer over an existing AI of one of the big players. Everybody is rushing to get something, anything out there. Nothing of value, but the hype, oh man, it's insane.
This is blockchain all over again. In the end there will be a few useful applications for AI, but at the moment it is the wild west in attention grabbing.
But it is also a fun and interesting technology that when used appropriately can reduce barriers around explorations and learning new things.
Unfortunately like most technology nowadays, engagement at the expense of everything else will continually eek away minimally at peoples’ remaining attention skills or worse by reducing peoples’ capacity to form relationships with real flawed humans.
I recently embarked on a personal journey of reading the Gnostic nag hammadi collection and a modern translation of the Christian gospels from a James Hillman multiplicity frame (and from my direct experience from thousands of hours of Buddhist meditation) and it’s been tremendously fruitful. I mark up the documents I read and then every so often discuss with an LLM and I find it a lovely experience. I’ve started seeing Christianity from a new frame (having been raised Presbyterian against my will when younger) as something much more lovely than I considered before. Christian mysticism reminds me a lot now of non-dual Buddhist traditions, and centering prayer has reignited a meditation practice stalled from a bad retreat experience years ago. LLMs didn’t give me anything I wasn’t giving them, they just acted as a mirror and helped bootstrap a weird interest I have that I’m now sharing with friends.
I also use LLMs in a very limited way when writing software:
1. As a rubber duck, and often I don’t even click enter, I figure out what I needed by writing it down.
2. For explorations of new concepts I’m not yet familiar with, like a glorified search engine.
Also, no one is forcing us to read about it. I myself do not read much about it. I prefer to explore how to make use of AI within my field on my own, and occasionally I will read a post or article if it seems interesting enough.
Maybe it's time to step away and find some better curated alternatives, or spend time on other things.
Personally I can’t get enough of AI and AI hype. It’s nearly certainly going to be the biggest technological leap forward of my lifetime and it won’t be particularly close.
What pisses me off is the mountain of code that I will have to debug in the future because a bored lazy developer decided to take shortcuts. And I'm also annoyed that 50% of the posts on HN are selling subscriptions to dumb wrappers around the LLM du jour. "Subscribe to my birthday card generator web site $5 a month it's great" Fuck off.