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Ask HN: When Will AI Disappear?
4 points by roschdal 12 hours ago | 12 comments


When Will AI Disappear?

When energy the power grid goes offline permanently. People that have really good solar/battery setups may be able to run it locally but their model will be less likely to get updated as the internet would be a thing of the past. At this point people will be more concerned with drinkable water, food, keeping invaders off their land, rare moments they can sleep, diseases, etc... There are many great filters ahead. At this point big-data+LLM "AI" hype would be no more.


AI is going to stay with us forever. Its really matter of this how we are going to position itself in our day-day activities.

Right query would be "When will AI hype disappear?"

Its a battle between AI-tool VS AI-Boss


What's AI hype?

AI replacing software engineers

Don't know about that, but it did save me about two days of work this morning as I was sipping a coffee and barely looking at the screen.

And two days ago, it did solve a nasty network issue that we had been investigating in two for two hours with no results. I just described the issue and our findings, it read the code, pointed to a seemingly completely unrelated env var, and said: "I bet this is true on the other environment". And it was right.


What’s AI?

My guess is when we no longer can produce enough energy or not enough water to cool down all the DC but energy is my bet.

That’s when you choose for AI to disappear… but most people are comfortable living in the matrix.

When money runs out.

As quick as a snap of the fingers I can detail the Battle of Muye 1045 BC. AI is the best thing since ham and cheeze on sliced bread.

June 9th, 2027

Now that you can run it locally, never.