What I find interesting is there has been a (percieved) massive change in the popular opinion re "AI". If you got an AI story on HN 6 months ago, there were all kinds of "it's just statistics" comments (also incorrect). Now the mood has changed and all the laypeople are gushing about how great it is.
Otoh, my impression is people who have been involved in ML for a while didn't have any sea change in their opinion of the technology based on the recent advances. These were predictable, but cool, extensions of things that were already known, and represent a fundamental advance in polish and marketing, rather than technology.
My point is that the public discourse is now mostly dominated by people looking to profit from hype, not people who actually have experience in the technology, which is of course going to lead to a web3 type feel
Otoh, my impression is people who have been involved in ML for a while didn't have any sea change in their opinion of the technology based on the recent advances. These were predictable, but cool, extensions of things that were already known, and represent a fundamental advance in polish and marketing, rather than technology.
My point is that the public discourse is now mostly dominated by people looking to profit from hype, not people who actually have experience in the technology, which is of course going to lead to a web3 type feel
Incidentally, below is my prediction for 2023 from new year's eve. I didn't think it would start becoming apparent so quick: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34197033