New Ed! Not much particularly new info, just a general lament and summary of the state of tech and how much has been pinned on magical thinking. Has some wonderfully quotable sections.

What if what we’re seeing today isn’t a glimpse of the future, but the new terms of the present? What if artificial intelligence isn’t actually capable of doing much more than what we’re seeing today, and what if there’s no clear timeline when it’ll be able to do more? What if this entire hype cycle has been built, goosed by a compliant media ready and willing to take career-embellishers at their word?

Please forgive my addition to the title, as it’s meant to be a play on “Waiting for Godot”, not a comment on the Godot game engine. Wanted to make that more clear than the title alone would.

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    18 days ago

    I saw this linked in the weekly thread and thought it was about Godot at first, but I thought that was just me. Didn’t expect to see 90% of the people here thought the same thing lol

    edit: oh man, some of those comments. I still get culture shock from true believers, I forgot this probably got some attention on the orange site