Comment by Lerc

This is the kind of thing people should be doing with AI. Weird and interesting stuff that has a "Let's find out!" Attitude.

Often there's as much to be learned from why it doesn't work.

I see the AI hype to be limited to a few domains.

People choosing to spend lots of money on things speculatively hoping to get a slice of whatever is cooking, even if they don't really know if it's a pie or not.

Forward looking imagining of what would change if these things get massively better.

Hyperbolic media coverage of the above two.

There are companies taking about adding AI for no other reason than they feel like that's what they should be doing, I think that counts as a weak driver of hype, but only because cumulatively, lots of companies are doing it. If anything I would consider this an outcome of hype.

Of these the only one that really affects me is AI being shoehorned into places it shouldn't

The media coverage stokes fires for and against, but I think it only changes the tone of annoyance I have to endure. They would do the same on another topic in the absence of AI. It used to be crypto,

I'm ok with people spending money that is not mine on high risk, high potential reward. It's not for me to judge how they calculate the potential risk or potential reward. It's their opinion, let them have it.

The weird thing I find is the complaints about AI hype dominating. I have read so many pieces where the main thrust of their argument is about the dominance of fringe viewpoints that I very rarely encounter. Frequently they take the stance that anyone imagining how the world might change from any particular form of AI as a claim that that form is inevitable and usually imminent. I don't see people making those claims.

I see people talking about what they tried, what they can do, and what they can't do. Everything they can't do is then held up by others as if it were a trophy and proof of some catestrophic weakness.

Just try stuff, have fun, if that doesn't interest you, go do something else. Tell us about what you are doing. You don't need to tell us that you aren't doing this particular thing, and why. If you find something interesting tell us about that, maybe we will too.