I like that this goofy fear-based boosterism is on the front page at the same time as an actually well reasoned and well written article about how fear-based boosterism has actually harmed the AI industry instead of making everyone panic-buy like they intended.

I assume that’s entirely due to not being able to downvote submissions on HN.

As for the article, as another user put it:

> Call me when it stops making things up.

We haven’t moved past this yet

I have really enjoyed this period of HN, because there has just been a genuine split here on this topic since it became The Thing, which means I get to see a whole ranges of opinions and arguments on this when I come here. I'll be really bummed if either the doomers or the boosters (or the pragmatists) get run off of the site. A monoculture bubble wouldn't be nearly as useful to me.

The AI boosterism is really weird. What is the big deal? My job is not to make AI succeed, it's too solve problems for our clients. Yet I'm getting told I need to use AI to do my job or my funding is going to get cut. We've done several research spikes to figure out where AI can fit into our project and apparently coming up with the answer of, "nowhere near the classified data" that means we must not have AI'd hard enough. My project owner doesn't seem to care if our actual project goals are met, he only seems to care that AI was used.

He's not my boss, so he can't literally tell me what to do. And my actual boss has told me to ignore him. But it's a worrying but of psychosis that I fear could infect the rest of the C-suite of it isn't addressed now.