[johnfn]

HN is a highly technical audience, and AI is showing the most benefit on highly technical tasks, so it seems logical to me that HN would be more excited than "the real world". (What is the real world, btw? Do people on HN not exist in the real world?)

[bigstrat2003]

> AI is showing the most benefit on highly technical tasks

It must be truly abysmal everywhere else then, because it doesn't show much value on highly technical tasks when I try.

[johnfn]

Is it really unthinkable that you could be using it in domains different than those that provide value to other people?

[Conscat]

My sister, who is a pretty technical kinesiology PhD student, does not know how to input Alt+F4 and insists that is esoteric knowledge. There's a litmus test for how out of touch HN users may be with the way normal people use computers.

[falcor84]

Exactly, and of course there's a relevant xkcd (Average Familiarity) https://xkcd.com/2501/

[paulkrush]

I meet a non-technical woman using it all day long to help manage a landscaping business. This was a data point for me.