You're on a forum with a disproportionate number of people who are trying to profit from AI and have an interest in promoting that it's a worthwhile time and resource investment. It is a different universe than other places outside this bubble.
As mentioned in my other comment, I just spend too much time on hn so thats why its a new account.
I do not profit from AI but I think the cat is out of the bag. We have companies like google who has so much money, R&D in AI is just something they can afford.
We then have other companies like Microsoft who have to do AI because Google is doing it.
And then we have whole countries who fight the AI race. USA vs. China (and in theory EU but Mistral is not making waves eh?).
So for now, the progress is staggering fast and I do believe whatever critisism people have, you need to spend relevant time following and keeping up with AI to take the right action in time. Decisions regarding long term investment, using AI tools properly instead of getting fired or even funding your own small company and filling a niche.
From a pure nerd pov: Its crazy! Srsly i can generate images and videos and i can talk to a computer and i can generate songs and .... I mean I wished to be alive when Linus asked on a mailing list about people being interested in Linux but this is now something im alive for.
And it solves plenty of problems for me i haven't had any good solutions. Especially the quality of parsing random texsts into semantic json.
And it's a one day old account.