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At this point, anyone calling AI a trend sounds like someone calling electricity a trend.

Believe it or not, there are paradigm shifts in technology every now and then. Not everything is 3D television.

There are. But until the current crop of AI can actually do something useful, it isn't one. Right now it's hype driven development in search of a compelling use case.

I hear this a lot, but don't understand it.

In my own field (biomedical research), AI has already been a revolution. Everyone - and I mean everyone - is using AlphaFold, for example. It is a game changer, a true revolution.

And everyday I use AI for mundane things, like summarization, transcribing, and language translation. All supremely useful. And there is a ton more. So I never understand the "hype" thing. It deserves to be hyped imo, as it is already become essential.

I think there is a group of people that don't want AI to be useful and think that by telling other people that its not useful that these other people will believe them. Unfortunately for them, more and more people are finding value with AI. It literally saved my father-in-law's life. It's become my kid's best school tutor. But there will still be people telling me that it has no value.

it boggles my mind this is still being written over and over here on HN. like an echochamber everyone like fears AI will replace them or some BS like that. I cannot even begin to tell you how much AI has been useful to me, to my entire team, to my wife, to my daughter and to most of my friends that are in various industries that I personally guided towards using it. on my end, roughly 50% of things that I used to have to do are now fully automated (some agents, some using my help along the way)…

in every thread here on HN there will be X number of people posting exactly what you wrote and Y (where Y is much smaller than X) number of people posting “look, this shit is fucking amazing, I do amazing shit with it.” if I was in group X I would stop and think long and hard what I need to do in order to get myself into group Y…

It’s already ridiculously useful. It does atleast 80% of the work in the teams that report to me and writes/refines almost all the documentation I write. That doesn’t even involve all the hobbies I use it for. Ideas for new furniture to build, pattern generation for wood carving, ideas for my oil paintings etc.

I think AI tools will have a little less impact than electrification.

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