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by snovv_crash 479 days ago
If you've been around long enough to witness a previous hype bubble (and we've literally just come out of the crypto bubble), you should really know better by now. Pets.com, literally an online shop selling pet food, almost IPOd for $300M in early 2000, just before the whole dot-com bubble burst.

And yeah, LLMs are awesome. But you can't predict scientific discovery, and all future AI capabilities are literally still a research project.

I've had this on my HN user page since 2017, and it's just as true as ever: In the real world, exponentials are actually early stage sigmoids, or even gaussians.