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0 pointsValidark3mo ago0 comments

Fair point, however I am simply more interested in how AI can advance frontiers than in how it can transcribe a meeting and give a summary or even print out React code. I know the world is heavily in need of the menial labor and AI already has made that stuff way easier and cheaper.

However I'm just very interested in innovation and pushing the boundaries as a more powerful force for change. One project I've been super interested in for a while is the Mill CPU architecture. While they haven't (yet) made a real chip to buy, the ideas they have are just super awesome and innovative in a lot of areas involving instruction density & decoding, pipelining, and trying to make CPU cores take 10% of the power. I hope the Mill project comes to fruition, and I hope other people build on it, and I hope that at some point AI could be a tool that prints out innovative ideas that took the Mill folks years to come up with.

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hnfong3mo ago· 1 in thread

It's kind of interesting in your original comment you used the words "doubter" and "believer", as if AI was some kind of messianic event of some sort and you are deciding whether to "believe" in it.

I mean, if you step back and think about it, there's nothing that requires faith. As you said, current AI can do a lot of things pretty well (transcribe and summarize meetings, write boilerplate code, etc.) Nobody is doubting this.

And AI is definitely helping in innovation to some extent. Not necessarily drive it singlehandedly, but some people working on world-changing innovation find AI useful.

So yeah, I think some people are subconsciously not doubting whether AI works, but kinda having conflicted thoughts about AI being our new overlords or something.

If you think about it, is having AI that's capable of innovating better than humans really a good thing? Like, even if we manage to make benign AI who won't copy how humans are jerks to each other, it kinda takes away our fun of discovery.

ValidarkOP2mo ago

"it kinda takes away our fun of discovery"

It might, but that would be an incredibly awesome problem to have, wouldn't it? If we really had the infinite innovation printer, I'd hope we'd have a lot more fun at that point.

By "believer" versus "doubter" I mainly meant I see it as more than a just a next-word-predictor. But the religious language is probably appropriate nonetheless.

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