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Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM

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68 points rbanffy | 2 comments | 20 Nov 24 17:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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DyslexicAtheist ◴[20 Nov 24 19:35 UTC] No.42197320[source]▶
every other article these days on this site is about AI. And it's incredibly tedious and annoying.

Isn't it enough that clueless marketers who get their Tech knowledge from businessinsider and bloomberg are constantly harping on about AI.

Seems we as a community have resigned or given up in this battle against common sense. Maybe long ago. Still there should be some form of moderation penalizing these shill posts that only glorify AI as being the future, ... the same way that not everything about crypto or the blockchain ended up on the FP. Seems with AI we're looking the other way and are OK with it?

Or maybe it's me.

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auggierose ◴[20 Nov 24 19:50 UTC] No.42197452[source]▶
It's a CACM article. Without having read this one, I'd say CACM articles on HN are absolutely appropriate.
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1. DyslexicAtheist ◴[20 Nov 24 20:14 UTC] No.42197672[source]▶
that's not really a justification in my view. The entire education industry is complicit in this circus. It's not just engineers hoping to get a payday it's academics too that are hoping to get funding and tenure.

CACM was totally complicit in spreading the blockchain hype: https://cacm.acm.org/?s=blockchain

That said, I'm not hating the player, people gotta eat. But I totally lack appreciation for the game.

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2. tomrod ◴[20 Nov 24 22:08 UTC] No.42198616[source]▶
I've worked in the analytics space for over ten years building what today is called "AI" as a service or product. The hype seems more like pent up release for the valid stuff, and block chain for the tech marketer type stuff.