I'm surprised it's only 1 in 5 to be honest. That actually makes me happy. It means not everyone is trying to build the next AI thing. There's still innovation in other spaces.
It could also explain the lower votes, "AI" or "GPT" being more generic terms is correlated in my personal experience with lower quality.
I think the methodology is too poor to actually make that call. It's closer to "the 20% is kind of made up".
Also, 1 in 5 being talked about is different from what is actually getting funding.
I’d say you can only say saturated relative to the historical popularity of other topics on HN throughout the years. There’s no real golden rule here
Like it or not AI is not only a huge trend, it really is a paradigm shift in all sorts of aspects
Would be curious to see the breakdown of this statistic
Well, you apparently just did. Saturation is indeed relative (or rather, on a spectrum with varying subjective lines). You can explain why it's saturated, but that still means it's saturated.
>Like it or not AI is not only a huge trend, it really is a paradigm shift in all sorts of aspects
Sure, so was fracking. I wasn't in this community back then, but I'd wager somehow we didn't have 1 in 5 articles about how much better society can drill oil.
I was literally expressing curiosity and wondering what the frequency relative to past topics and trends is and totally open to it being actually saturated
I didn’t define or explain what saturated is, I said it’d be good to see those stats - you don’t know the answer as you’re obviously conjecturing about fracking popularity quantified on HN but don’t actually know anything regarding those numbers (you might now after you go look them up to reply to this, nj)
And fwiw hn includes a lot of article types but it’s obviously already slanted towards tech so if you don’t see how much closer ai is related to tech and why it’d be more popular than fracking then I don’t know what to tell you
If anything, I should have noticed that they are talking about show HN because that does change things but I’d still be curious to see stats
Like it’s not that serious I don’t know why you got so offended
Either way, not interesting in engaging with some hn smart ass atm so have a good day and feel free to have the last word
Last thing I’ll say is HN is so fickle, have no clue why I’m getting downvoted
Sometimes I feel like it would be great if it were required to enter a reason
If you took my reply that way, I don't know what to say. I'll respect your caustic retort and cut off the conversation. HN isn't the place for flamewrs.
>Last thing I’ll say is HN is so fickle, have no clue why I’m getting downvoted
Note that I cannot downvote a direct reply. So I am not responsible for those actions.
I guess that’s because that’s where a lot of VC and hypebuxx are right now, though.
In 10 years either advanced AI will have eaten everything or nobody will even remember any of this.
My position is that I think AI is an amazing tool, but that’s it. It’s like any other tool we humans have developed before – we use it to create more quickly, with less effort.
Personally, I don’t think we’re anywhere close to achieving AGI, and I find the tech bros’ AGI fantasies appalling.