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Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines?


I am. Every day, there are countless new articles about ChatGPT posted on here. Maybe I'm the only one who thinks it's overrated.

Most of the prompt answers are smart sounding bullshit. Maybe that's why the headlines never stop - the people who like to make smart sounding bullshit are the ones who love ChatGPT.


  👤 Agingcoder Accepted Answer ✓
No - to many people chatgGPT is science fiction come true. And for older folks in our (technical) world, it is, too.

I understand it's 'just' a language model, but it doesn't matter - that's not how it's perceived, and it is actually rather impressive anyway.

What you're seeing is just a manifestation of a rather major (sociological) event, and while I understand that the amount of hype is a bit over the top, to a large extent it makes sense.


👤 ExtremisAndy
I am definitely tired of the topic, but I’ll be perfectly honest as to the reason why: I am genuinely afraid of its impact on my career. My career has been sort of a combination of tech and education, and this (admittedly impressive) creation threatens both. And more and more of these things will be coming online over the coming months and years.

So, every time I see it mentioned I feel depressed and sick on the inside.

I will say, however, that so far it has actually enhanced my productivity in my current projects, and that’s fine. I just don’t think that its impact will remain so limited for long.

Of all the tech that’s been invented, this is the one I fear the most in terms of its negative impact on jobs. Hope I’m wrong!


👤 eachro
No. This is a paradigm changing technology - the kind that happens once every 10 years or so. ChatGPT is going to change the entire landscape of knowledge work over the next few years and I'd rather be up to date with the advances even if it does mean I'll have to click the "More" button at the bottom of the page to see non-ChatGPT HN posts.

👤 docdeek
I'm only sick of the op-ed authors who reveal halfway through their column that "everything above was written by ChatGPT". It's no longer an original angle and seems pretty lazy at this point.

👤 jjdeveloper
It’s a good thing, I’m seeing less JS frameworks getting created now

👤 anileated
I don’t like seeing hype articles about ChatGPT because I believe it is built on illegally monetizing intellectual property of others.

Sort of in line with the usual switchbait behavior certain companies are well known for, except at a grander scale: first compel people to share information openly and publicly, then use it against them.

We wouldn’t give Google a free pass if it stopped sending us traffic and started only showing aggregated information on its pages. Heck, there was an outcry when they merely started showing questions before search results, even though they actually credited the website. Somehow we are fine when OpenAI, the for-profit company with antithetical name, and Microsoft, its largest partner with which billions it plays, do the same.


👤 artyom
I think that the ones thinking that ChatGPT can write great prose haven't read actual great prose in years

👤 fhd2
I'm also annoyed by the hype. For me, it's a combination of two things:

1. I'm just naturally averse to any sort of hype. Maybe something I should talk to a therapist about because it's only rational to some degree. I've been building software for decades, and almost every hype that came up meant more boring/annoying work for me - usually around resolving misconceptions non-technical people get from the news. Rewarded only by the grim satisfaction that people finally get it a few years delayed ("blockchain technology" is my favourite example here).

2. I can only see the bad LLMs can bring: A further decline of quality in a ton of areas, having to deal with worse writing and user interfaces in my private life, and worse code and tools in my professional life. It's just largely dystopian in my mind, I don't see any benefits. Code writing speed is hardly a bottleneck for the kind of work I do, I actually find it to be a small, particularly satisfying part of it. Is it more fun for a violinist to not touch the instrument and instead just tell a machine what to play? Certainly not for me. Generating elaborate wiki pages and SEO spam? Hell no, it's bad enough without LLM assistance.

The strategy I developed over the years is to learn enough about the hyped thing to feel like I don't miss out on information I need to have in case it comes up, and then to largely ignore it. Things are rarely eaten as hot as they are cooked. Sometimes, I start to get into the hyped thing a little later on the hype cycle, having waited for the early adopters to figure out what it's actually valuable for. At that point I usually am not appalled by it anymore. There's nothing wrong with _not_ being an early adopter of something. And it's also not as if you can do anything to stop it, whatever is gonna happen, happens. All you can control is how you react to that, in what you do, as well as emotionally.


👤 huqedato
The problem is that our CTO, having in mind ChatGPT/GPT-3 is thinking to "shrink" our team of 1 leader + 3 senior devs + 19 junior devs to 1 leader/senior dev + 3 junior devs. The idea suggested from above I heard. They really "believe" that the bulk of the code can be generated by AI, and the team has only to manage the implementaton/integration/holistic view. They will make a plan to achieve this by Nov 2023.

I heard this trend is everywhere around at multinational corps in our country.


👤 dougmwne
I think you have really come to the wrong conclusion. I don’t know how much impact this tech will ultimately have, but it is extremely capable and surprising. It might not be the same as a reliable expert or highly regarded textbook, but it is capable of giving a very specific answer to a question you have, like a middle of the road private tutor. If you do any kind of writing, it can slam through writing blocks. It can pair program like a beast. As long as YOU know what you are doing it can accelerate you.

Most people are very intimidated by a blank page or empty code editor. Most people need a helping hand and someone to help them navigate a problem. Most people have a lot of difficulty producing individual work on their own.

Think of this like flipping the other end of a ping pong table up so you can bounce the ball back. Sure there’s no real person there, your shots are just being reflected back, but without something to bounce against, there’s no way you can play solo. Maybe that’s not you, but it is a lot of people.

These recent AI developments are the discoveries of the decade. Let folks have their hype.


👤 huijzer
Have you ever in your life seen the release of a tool that can save about 30 minutes per day from most office jobs and possibly more in the future? I haven’t and never expected I would.

👤 belfalas
Meh. It’s a normal part of the hype cycle around a piece of tech that is having its big moment on the stage. Some years back the HN front page was all Docker all the time.

I think it’s actually not a bad thing if there are ‘too many’ posts around a particular piece of tech. If something sticks for a while I usually take it as signal to investigate. Other things have a brief moment of hype but don’t actually stick around too long if you watch the ebb and flow.

Instead of getting upset, consider spending less time on here. :)


👤 gus_massa
Don't worry. The overload will disappear in a month, and there will be only a monthly article when someone discover something new. It happens all the time. For example, after Apple Day, the front page is all about Apple for a week.

I prefer/recommend not to use the "hide" button too much in the front page, but in some case you can use it for a week if the ChatGPT posts get too annoying.


👤 Apreche
On the one hand yes. Enough already.

But on the other hand, no. This is actually a significant technological development that has real implications, positive and negative, for our entire society. It's not some BS nonsense like blockchain. This is almost as big as the rise of smartphones. We need to be talking about it.


👤 1vuio0pswjnm7
No, you are not the only one. And in fact I had the same thought that bullshitters might particularly appreciate ChatGPT since it does what they do for them. Quite useful in their opinion.

👤 nonbirithm
When given a hammer, everything looks like a nail. ChatGPT is a really convincing hammer that is still pretty unreliable.

But I'm worried when it gets to the point where a future ChatGPT is no longer that unreliable, and then millions of people given that hammer will feel justified enough to keep ranting about it and injecting it into every random forum thread and comment section forever just because it's possible for them to.

Yes, I'm tired of it, because it's not an endgame tool but many treat it like it is. And I have a feeling I'm going to get even more tired of it the more it improves - that is, the more people it's able to convince it's no longer bullshit.


👤 acheron
It’s way better than the constant headlines about Twitter drama.

👤 SunghoYahng
Okay folks, buckle up, because I've got a doozy of a story to share with you all in regards to the ChatGPT headlines. So, I was at a conference the other day, and one of the speakers was demonstrating a language model like ChatGPT. And of course, being the AI enthusiast that I am, I was eagerly paying attention. But then, the speaker asked the model to generate a response to the prompt "Why did the chicken cross the road?" And you won't believe what the model came up with: "To get to the other side, where the grass is greener and the AI is more advanced." I mean, talk about a smart-aleck response!

But here's the thing, that little anecdote perfectly exemplifies the excitement and novelty surrounding language models like ChatGPT. Sure, some of the answers generated might seem like "smart sounding bullshit," but that's part of the charm! We're still discovering the capabilities of these models, and it's exhilarating to imagine what else they might be able to do in the future.

So let's not get tired of the ChatGPT headlines. Instead, let's continue to engage in discussions and explore the potential of AI technology. The future is full of opportunities, and language models like ChatGPT are going to play a major role in shaping that future. Who knows, maybe one day they'll even be able to write their own hilarious chicken crossing the road jokes!


👤 goldsguide
It's definitely starting to feel a bit like crypto. The hustlers take less and less time to hop onto new trends these days.

👤 zxcvbn4038
I'm pretty tired of seeing the ChatGPT headlines - right up there with Harry and Meghan, and Kim and KKKanye.

There is nothing intelligent about ChatGPT, it's just a statistical trick, no understanding, no unique ideas. It's this years's self driving car.

Speaking of which, I'm been waiting for my self driving car since 1982. At this rate better make it a hearse.


👤 3vidence
It's so exhausting and over discussed that I made an HN reader app for myself just to add topic filters

(kind of a plug, I haven't updated the Repo in a while and just run it locally).

https://github.com/rsimmons1/FlutterHnReader


👤 mk89
I am tired of the articles because they are like 90% redundant.

Plus, on a different note, I fear this mega hype will eventually reach those that decide in a company, and most of them in my experience do not possess proper technical knowledge, which will trigger them to buy shitty AI-generated/based products because of their obsession to save costs, scale a company and replace people.

The way I see, medium/big companies do already or will personalize this AI for their own domains and package it to the end users which will have to interact not anymore with a human but with a machine that can't yet reason very well.

How often do we complain that "algorithms" deleted an account and all that? I imagine chatGPT will make all this and much worse available on a much larger scale.

This is also why I find these articles pretty annoying.


👤 SMAAART
I asked ChatGPT to comment on your post, this is what came out:

As an AI language model, I don't have feelings or personal opinions. My purpose is to assist and provide information. If you're feeling overwhelmed by ChatGPT headlines, perhaps take a break and come back later.


👤 nottorp
Yes and no. Some are still amusing in a perverted sort of way.

Like CNet generating their articles with ChatGPT... from the few times I've read CNet lately, I bet that didn't change their article quality one bit. They were blogspam, they stayed blogspam.


👤 roryisok
I agree, but I'm intrigued by the _patterns_ of headlines.

At first, they were all in the format of "I asked chatGPT to write a blog post, here it is" and "I used ChatGPT to talk to my mom so I don't have to"

Then it quickly moved onto people pushing out prototypes "Use ChatGPT to generate pick-up lines" and "ChatGPT as a therapist"

And now, more recently, it's all about taking down ChatGPT. ChatGPT is flawed, ChatGPT can be detected, ChatGPT is a dirty liar, or some other library is better than ChatGPT.


👤 ihatepython
Yes, I agree with you. I think this is WAY overrated. I also think this is as good as ChatGPT will get, a lot of people seem to think it will get better and better.

👤 burlesona
The post titles are a bit repetitive, but I find the conversation with HN folks dissecting the applicability and limitations of LLMs pretty interesting.

👤 EdmundStoner
In January of 1806 in the article "Essay on False Genius" in the European Magazine and London Review, there was a statement that there is one fool born every minute. Funny, how 200 some years later has not changed that too much. Artificial intelligence is still artificial no matter how intelligent that it seems. A good predictor, yes, 100% accurate, no. It could be a billion dollar effort or a late night experiment that is trying to pass itself off as the REAL thing to replace the human brain. I will choose to see it as a scene from a circus, telling us of the greatness that we are about to witness, and shake my head at the failures that have not lived up to their grandeur. Patience, my friend, someday we will exist as a utopian society, someday.

👤 KyeRussell
A big part of the reason why these posts float around on the front page is because they get engagement. A whole lot of the engagement is exactly the sort of engagement your post is getting. You’ve invited another ChatGPT conversation, exactly the same as all the others. Your post is the same as myriad first-level comments on all of the posts you’re referring to.

I’m sick to death of seeing the concentric circles of HN readers parroting the same critiques of ChatGPT over and over again. “It’s a language model!” they’ll say, and with each iteration there’s a higher chance that the person that writes that has no idea what the implications are. The comments usually end with a hand-wavey explanation as to how ChatGPT having flaws means that it won’t be remotely disruptive. There’s usually some weird elitist / classist vibe to the comments (effectively: “none of the jobs that actually matter will be impacted”). Then there’s some other hand-wavey blah-blah said about creativity. As if the typical HN user, myself included, isn’t a rank and file software developer / manager at Tech Company 1527.

The funniest thing about it is that these comments are all written presumably at least in part because the writer thinks that they’ll provide value. You wouldn’t even need GPT-3 to construct one of these comments. Previous-generation models could do it.

I work in the education sector. I’ve no doubt that ChatGPT et al are going to have a long-term impact on the product that I work on. There are always kids that want to find ways to cheat. Before I get lectured by someone with absolutely no relevant experience: ChatGPT can write wholly believable essays in various genres.

We’ve all been worn down by AI hype for years and years now. We’ve especially been worn down by all of the Elon-bait around FSD. To let that evolve into “be unproductively critical of every AI advancement” is…not original thought.

I’m sick of the recycled BS ChatGPT think-pieces yep. But they’re no different to the comments that put them in the front page, including my comment. They’re also no different to a bunch of BS thinkpiece articles on HN.


👤 antegamisou
Yes. Some have been hyped so much that they make absurd claims about establishment of AGI because of it.

It's certainly entertaining, albeit Midjourney is more exciting imo, but there are far more challenging problems in the field of Computer Science and sciences in general than NLP.


👤 lern_too_spel
Large language models in their current form are limited, but within those limits lie a thousand use cases. This is unlike blockchain. Expect to hear more and more about specific use cases after the people pointing out the obvious limits have run out of steam. (Oh, it can't construct a novel proof? Why would you even think it could?) For example, I think many books will be written with the help of large language models, especially memoirs. Speeches will be written with LLMs. Comedians will flesh out jokes by giving LLMs the setup and the punchline and ask for the rest to be filled in. Memos and documents that aim to be spare, information dense, and accurate don't benefit much from LLMs.

👤 trenning
I’m not but I’m also not terminally online. I’ve only recently had time to start playing around with chatgpt myself so I’m still enjoying the novelty of it and reading about others use cases and experiences.

👤 yummybear
I want to know more actually. I want good use cases for it. For me it’s like being given google in 1995. How can I use it - what’s it good for, what’s it bad for and how do I formulate good queries?

👤 wilsonnb3
ChatGPT might be the next tech gold rush so a lot of people who come to Hacker News have a vested interest in hyping it up.

“ChatGPT but for whatever” will probably be the most effective way to separate venture capitalists from their money in the near future, much like “crypto for whatever” and “Uber but for whatever” and “an app but for whatever” in the past.


👤 BhavdeepSethi
Not really. The more attention it gets, the more incentive to make it better.

Unrelated, the irony of this post made me chuckle. By posting this, you're adding to the ChatGPT "headlines".


👤 iLoveOncall
I'm not tired of ChatGPT headlines, but I'm definitely tired of the mass of people that think it is way more than what it actually is (spitting out text based on statistics).

People see it as the second coming of Christ, as the Google killer, as a disruptor of educational systems, etc. when all it is is something that's good about making bullshit look legit.

AI has always followed a cycle of hype and then total lack of interest when people realize it's empty promises. ChatGPT isn't changing that.


👤 iExploder
ChatGPT is like google/stackoverflow/wikipedia on steroids and it will get only better over time. there might also be specialized models for particular jobs, this will save people time on a lot of routine work and allow individuals to create apps that would take groups of people to make in past...

personally, I like it and see it as a big win for reality where tech at least from my perspective of an average joe seemed to stagnate for years..


👤 t0bia_s
It's current trend. It will vanish with time. Like AI generated pictures, Musk and Twitter, Ukraine, covid...

Yes, trends are usually not very "deep" or intellectually enriching.


👤 digital_voodoo
Yes.

Thanks to Firefox + uBlock Origin, _the name of the CEO of Twitter and SpaceX_ name has completely vanished from my everyday browsing.

I can do the same for ChatGPT. Or any other thing or topic that swtiches from initial hotness to constant noise.

edit: it is so effective that if even affects my own commenting here. I had to replace its actual name by "he name of the CEO of Twitter and SpaceX" to be able to post my reply.


👤 ajsnigrutin
if we remove ChatGPT, written in rust and "X fired Y% of their workforce", there wouldn't be much left.

👤 sebastien_b
Yes, I’m tired. It’s basically become a buzzword about something whose capabilities are sounding overblown more and more.

Just waiting on that bubble to burst.


👤 fennecfoxy
No. This stuff is cool. If our species spent more time on building and _caring_ (the most important) about stuff like this then we'd be on our way to the utopia we dream of.

Some people may be annoyed by it I suppose, same as people get annoyed when they see new JS frameworks/libs.


👤 causality0
If there's something HN loves more than anything else, it's buzzwords. Right now it's ChatGPT, but it was Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Blockchain, etc. ChatGPT is almost a welcome reprieve from "How to use Machine Learning to wipe your ass better" and "Why you should integrate the blockchain when selling hookers in Second Life."

👤 bobleeswagger
I think ChatGPT is controversial because, like other past controversial technologies, we don't know whether it will be good or bad for society on the whole.

If you don't notice how much money-momentum is behind it, you're burying your head in the sand. I think it's an interesting time because we are seeing how the market squeezes value out of emerging technology.


👤 gnicholas
Nope. I'm interested to see the ways in which this will change our labor market, consumption patterns, and society. I've heard from people who are using it in their jobs and I'm curious how I could use it too. I'm also interested to know how it will affect future generations, and what can be done to prepare students for an AI-enabled economy.

👤 Existenceblinks
I reduce twitter time because of it. Also they are here on HN posts a lot recently so I seem to spent time less to read HN as well.

👤 hirako2000
I am tired of them and consider them infomercial.

👤 sourcecodeplz
We're you not here when it first launched? I feel it calmed down now and is at acceptable levels.

It's an amazing tool nonetheless.


👤 petodo
Reminds me of 3D printers, bitcoin and other fads, while this seems more hopeful for practical use, but we will see few years from now... Judging by perplexity.ai results it's pretty much useless to me for specific questions.

Anyone remember that voice conversation app everyone was pushing and I can't even remember its name?

edit: Clubhouse


👤 irvingprime
Yes.

Yes, ChatGPT is largely overrated. Yet it is still a modern marvel. It WILL change the world.

But most of the stories about it are still garbage and I'm very tired of endless breathless and misleading headlines.

Anyway, Chinese balloons are infinitely more important.


👤 worldsavior
Yes. We all know the power of ChatGPT, or even GPT-3 itself, and how it's impressive and so on. But seriously, it something we all anticipated that will happen in the future, and science is exponentially becoming better and better. It's the era of AI, I get it, but how much can you repeat the same headline?

👤 paganel
I ignore them all. The bad thing is that I've also started seeing them in non-tech focused sub-reddits.

👤 osigurdson
I love ChatGPT. It does a lot of “dreaming” but it is generally helpful. It is a bit like having a friendly know-it-all who has read all of StackOverflow but can’t remember everything in detail (yet supremely confident nonetheless).

What problem domain do you use it in that you find underwhelming?


👤 gesman
I signed up for GPT, asked two questions and this was the end of it.

The answers were "...it is not scientifically proven" BS.

Something I already proved with my own life, GPT is not willing to answer and risk its good, politically correct name for.

Google is here for stay until people are ready to give up spoon fed BS


👤 lwerdna
Yes I am.

Though I'm not sure it's quite as bad as the countless Wordle headlines from a couple years ago.


👤 maptime
I feel like it will always get traction as it preys on the underlying fear of job security of Devs

I have genuinely found it incredible in certain situations. I don't feel like I am getting as much value from it as others might be so for the moment I like the discussion


👤 smrtinsert
Absolutely not. This is a pivotal moment in culture and I'm coming here partly to be kept up to the minute on it. As technologists we owe it to ourselves to be aware. So much is changing every day. I feel like I'm not consuming enough.

👤 m3kw9
I like seeing how people use it creatively and see it’s limitations and what will come next

👤 FpUser
I treat it the same way as XXX written in ZZZ. Sometimes I read it if XXX looks like it may be interesting but mostly I just skip it. Hence not really tired as I can always read something else. Posts on all kinds of things are plentiful here.

👤 prenoob
Well, a few years ago it was 80% blockchain headlines, at least GPT has practical uses. If it bothers you, set yourself up with a custom rss reader that has kill words -- that's what i did when i was tired of cryptoheadlines.

👤 flandish
Absolutely. We’re simply in the “post links for karma” phase, but it’s still annoying.

👤 DueDilligence
.. nope. block)element("*gpt" replace"//_____//"

👤 kybernetyk
>the people who like to make smart sounding bullshit

that's most of the ML/AI community


👤 Karunamon
Not even a little bit. We've only scratched the surface of what tech like this can do.

There are some tropes that need to go away, though. Most of them some form of lame middlebrow dismissal.

- "It doesn't actually understand": nobody outside of a small niche cares how the sausage is made, you are not making a substantive observation that hasn't already been made by 100,000 other people.

- "Most of the answers are bullshit": factually incorrect and the growing sidebar of my chat history with it can prove as much.

- "Okay if not bullshit then so riddled with errors as to not save any time or be useful" see above.

I would suggest that people who have such a hard time with content they are not personally interested in to make use of the hide button rather than spewing hate all over every related thread.


👤 SunghoYahng
INT. CONFERENCE HALL - DAY

Paul Graham (PG) walks onto the stage, the audience applauds.

PG: Thank you, thank you. Good afternoon everyone, it's great to be here today to talk about AI. But today, I want to focus on a specific type of AI that has taken the world by storm - ChatGPT.

Cut to:

INT. NEWSROOM - DAY

A JOURNALIST is typing away on his computer. He looks up, frustrated.

JOURNALIST: (to himself) Another day, another set of ChatGPT headlines. I mean, what's not to love?

Cut to:

INT. CONFERENCE HALL - DAY

PG: Now, I know what you're all thinking. "Oh no, not another ChatGPT talk." But I want to give you a different perspective.

Cut to:

INT. DINNER PARTY - NIGHT

PG, surrounded by friends and colleagues, is holding court.

PG: You know what, let me tell you a story. I was at a dinner party the other night, and someone brought up ChatGPT.

FRIEND: (excitedly) Oh, I love ChatGPT!

PG: (smiling) Well, I decided to have a little fun and ask the model some absurd questions. And you know what it responded with?

FRIEND: What?

PG: (grinning) "Why did the tomato turn red?" "Because it saw the salad dressing!"

Everyone at the table erupts in laughter.

Cut to:

INT. CALL CENTER - DAY

PG is observing a customer service representative at work.

PG: (to himself) And then there was the time I watched a machine powered by ChatGPT resolve an issue faster and more efficiently than any human representative.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE: (smiling) Well, it looks like ChatGPT has done it again.

PG: (nodding) Indeed.

Cut to:

INT. CONFERENCE HALL - DAY

PG: So, instead of complaining about the constant stream of ChatGPT headlines, why not embrace the excitement and keep pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI technology? The future is a blank canvas, and it's up to us to paint it with the limitless potential of AI. And who knows, maybe one day, these models will be able to write the next great American novel, or maybe even perform open-heart surgery. The possibilities are truly endless, even if it means cracking a joke or two along the way.

The audience erupts in applause, and PG takes a bow. The scene ends.


👤 brailsafe
No not really. It's fun to learn the limitations, and figure out how to exploit its good qualities. It can't be funny, but it can describe concepts in different levels of detail

👤 ENGNR
Seeing all the headlines of little MVPs that people have hacked together once a new tech arrives is what hacker news is all about

So no, more crazy MVPs and open source libraries please


👤 d4rkp4ttern
I am very interested in learning the various open source packages useful to build apps around GPTx, so instead of being annoyed I quietly bookmark these.

👤 jareklupinski
in a way, we've been reading chatGPT headlines for years

every moderately large news organization has been using A/B testing for over a decade to choose how to present the headline, with sometimes tens or hundred of possibilities being quickly swapped out/tested as people click, training "models" for presenting the most catchy headlines

now we just have a 'confidence percentage' before actually publishing


👤 Zetobal
I am fine but if I see one more "Let's see what's chatgpt has to say about it" comments! I am gonna get this account banned.

👤 leephillips
I've been ignoring all news about this thing, here and everywhere, almost since the hype started. It just seems so boring.

👤 D13Fd
I'm not tired of the headlines. But I do find them somewhat depressing in that some people don't seem to realize that it is an incredible BS generator, and instead treat it like an incredible knowledge engine.

It literally does not "know" or "understand" what is true or false. It is just capable of imitating true-sounding things (which often happen to be true). That's a massive difference, and it's dangerous that people take what it says as true.


👤 LegitShady
I dislike the low effort content.

"I asked ChatGPT this question and now its my medium column"

etc etc

It just seems at the moment that most of the content is like that.


👤 Name_Chawps
We are currently experiencing the greatest revolution in technology, perhaps since computers, perhaps ever. People are not going to stop talking about it. As the technology becomes more sophisticated, it's going to subsume everything.

We have created intelligence. We aren't alone in the universe anymore. At this stage, it's still an "incredibly well-read moron", but it's still intelligence.


👤 amelius
Don't worry. By the end of this year we are either in the next AI winter or we're past the singularity.

👤 thefz
Yes. It is already one solution in search of a problem, like VR and augmented reality. An eternal fad.

👤 siva7
I believe that OpenAI has the potential to become the next Google if management doesn't fuck it up

👤 apple4ever
Yes so so much. I couldn't care less about it. Just want to read about something interesting

👤 tmtvl
Not really, the technology has some very interesting potential, especially in the helpdesk space.

👤 pdntspa
Ask HN: Are you tired of headlines asking if you are tired of reading ${POPULAR_THING}

👤 Kiro
Not at all. Imagine being tired of "alien headlines" if aliens made contact.

👤 siva7
I haven't seen a product more talked about in mass media than this one in the last decade. It's safe to assume that this is the defining event in the history of AI that changed it all and one of the breakthroughs on par with the invention of the internet as we know it

👤 thrill
Not as tired as I am about the constant complaining about it.

👤 switch007
Better than Elon headlines. This too shall pass.

👤 steele
Nice try, OpenAI

👤 beebmam
Not really, no. It's an awesome tech.

👤 digital_voodoo
Yes.

Thanks to Firefox + uBlock Origin, "Elon Musk" has vanished from my everyday browsing.

I can do the same for ChatGPT. Or any other thing or topic that swtiches from initial hotness to constant noise.


👤 ARK_12
not at all if its an original take

👤 sgammon
I am not

👤 animanoir
No.

👤 BossHogg
Would you rather go back to Elon Musk?

👤 frizlab
Yes.

👤 claudiug
yes

👤 SpeedilyDamage
I never understand the point of these kinds of submissions. HN isn't for you alone, and there's a whole voting system. All you're going to get here, at best, are a handful of likeminded people who agree with you, reinforcing your bubble even further.

Just vote and move on, hide the submissions if you have to.


👤 ThrowawayTestr
I'm more tired of the headlines trying to downplay how amazing it is.

👤 ergonaught
There are plenty of people who think “it” is overrated. Those people are mistaken, but by the time they catch up and say “oh, wow, this is a total disaster, how could I have known?” it will be too late, but at least they were tired of the headlines.

👤 ingen0s
I understand your opinion about ChatGPT and its impact on the headlines. It certainly appears to be a popular topic of discussion, but I think it is important to take time to evaluate the accuracy of the answers it provides and the impact it has.

👤 nathias
No, this is the biggest technological breakthrough of our lives, for better or for worse.