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onesandofgraintoday at 11:45 AM8 repliesview on HN

AI is 95% useless. Not quite worth the trillion dollar market cap lol.

* The AI bots are downvoting me * hooray


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jimbokuntoday at 12:20 PM

AI has profound weaknesses, but is still extremely useful.

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Lomliototoday at 12:16 PM

Someone might want to downvote you because you just state something which is very controversal and you do not add any arguments to your 'empty' comment.

Its hard to even have a discussion because someone else needs to give you enough content like ask you first why do you even think that.

So how do you define AI? LLMs? GenAI stuff?

What is 95%? Does it mean that these 5% are unable to disrupt industries or does it mean for you that these 5% will change the world as we know it but stil 95% of other AI stuff is useless?

I personally think that AI/AGI progress is faster than i expected it, I think its very useful already today, I also think we still need to build a lot of obvious stuff (like proper AI Agentic Platforms), more hardware, cheaper hardware etc. but the way quite clear, but some peple might think the current state is the AGI future people talk about it but I think we will only see this in 4/5-15 years and then it will have disrupted a lot.

reactordevtoday at 11:52 AM

AI is extremely useful, we just haven’t zeroed in on your specific use cases yet. Robotics has been transformed by it, IT and tech has been transformed by it. Finance and Legal have been transformed by it. To say it’s 95% useless is a personal bias.

To me it’s 65% useful. As it can run in the background doing “chores” while I sleep.

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cbg0today at 12:06 PM

beep-boop, [citation needed] on that "95%".

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echelontoday at 1:01 PM

This anti-AI miasma is insufferable.

I'm a human and I'm downvoting you.

Stop posting this garbage.

baal80spamtoday at 12:16 PM

> AI is 95% useless

This is a ridiculous take.

FWIW, I am NOT a bot. (beep-boop)

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simonwtoday at 12:24 PM

2024-era take.

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alvahtoday at 11:59 AM

I think Ed Zitron has this market covered already