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There's literally no use case for crypto that makes sense. Nothing that couldn't be better done without a distributed blockchain.
Blockchain is a way to set up a really slow, really limited, and hard to manage database that's hosted among multiple untrusted entities. Literally every use case would be better handled by using a single trusted database and cryptographic signatures for verification (as opposed to "crypto", which really means blockchain. I hate how words get co-opted.).
AI at least has positive uses, even if it's also being hyped well beyond its actual usefulness.
You don't have as many scams in AI just because it doesn't involve money, but there are countless cases of people labeling stuff with "AI" or just some other shady stuff using AI to preform scams, spam and other malicious stuff.
Saying that "would be better handled by using a single trusted database and cryptographic signatures for verification", is the same as saying that "AI could just be replaced with Ifs and Elses and other algorithms, and all you are doing is just optimal solutions".
I'm just mocking the fact that HN seems to have the idea of "AI Good, Crypto Bad", even thought that both are just Trendy tech
I have yet to see a single application for blockchain that isn't better done without blockchain.
Zero. None.
You very much can unless you're completely out of touch with reality. For instance plenty of real world metrics show that ChatGPT has proved more useful within its first 15 days than cryptocurrencies have been in 15 years.
> HN instead of embracing the utility/technology advancements that come with Crypto, it appears to undermine the significance of Crypto in an attempt to gain an edge in the competitive landscape on what is now popular.
If haters on HN can "undermine" your technology then you've admitted it's shit.
No you cant. Both are tools. You can't say "An hammer is useless because it's just used to bang stuff, while a knife can be used to open stuff up, cut, etc"
Also, AI has existed for 50+ years and only in the last decade it has found actual utility.
>If haters on HN can "undermine" your technology then you've admitted it's shit.
Lol, "my technlogy". I'm not in some sort of team. That's what I'm mocking. And what do you mean by that?
Is your point like this because you don't know what you're talking about or are you conflating AGI research with AI as a whole?
(For some mysterious reason it’s a right-wing tic to write English nouns with random importance-based capitalization, like people did 300 years ago.)