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Nvidia won, we all lost

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Arainach ◴[] No.44472814[source]
Why was the title of this post changed long after posting to something that doesn't match the article title? This editorializing goes directly against HN Guidelines (but was presumably done by the HN team?)
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throwaway290 ◴[] No.44473290[source]
I think it's pretty obvious. People were investing like crazy into Nvidia on the "AI" gamble. Now everybody needs to keep hyping up Nvidia and AI no matter reality. (Until it starts to become obvious and then the selloff starts)
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j_timberlake ◴[] No.44473649[source]
Literally every single anti-AI comment I see on this site uses a form of the word "hype". You cannot make an actual objective argument against the AI-wave predictions, so you use the word hype and pretend that's a real argument and not just ranting.
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1. elzbardico ◴[] No.44474236[source]
I work with AI, I consider generative AI an incredible tool in our arsenal of computing things.

But, in my opinion, the public expectations in my opinion are clearly exaggerated and sometimes even dangerous as we ran the risk of throwing the baby with the bathwater when some ideas/marketing/vc people ideas become not realizable in the concrete world.

Why, having this outlook, I should be banned of using the very useful word/concept of "hype"?

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2. j_timberlake ◴[] No.44474785[source]
Your post doesn't contain a single prediction of a problem that will occur, dangerous or otherwise, just some vague reference to "the baby might get thrown out with the bathwater". This is exactly what I'm talking about, you just talk around the issue without naming anything specific, because you don't have anything. If you did, you'd state it.

Meanwhile the AI companies continue to produce new SotA models yearly, sometimes quarterly, meaning the evidence that you're just completely wrong never stops increasing.

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3. Zambyte ◴[] No.44479626[source]
> [...] when some ideas/marketing/vc people ideas become not realizable in the concrete world.

This is a single prediction of a problem that will occur. The tools not living up to the hype leads to disappointment, and people are likely to entirely abandon it because they got burned (throw the baby out with the bath water), even though the tools are still useful if you ignore the hype.