<story><title>Bunny AI</title><url>https://bunny.net/blog/introducing-bunny-optimizer-ai-a-new-way-of-creating-content/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>igammarays</author><text>Am I the only one disappointed by this new wave of AI hype? Seriously, autogenerated avatars? When are our best minds going to work towards actually improving the lives of people? Not monkey JPEG scams, not chat bot bureaucracies, not self-driving cars that fail in bad weather and kill you, but something that actually alleviates humanity&amp;#x27;s biggest problems. Energy, homelessness, pollution and the environment, affordable housing crises in the West, content moderation, the loneliness epidemic - there&amp;#x27;s so much that needs to be done if we can just step out of the current hype cycle and focus on human problems, not just looking for ways to use cool tech.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cshimmin</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure &amp;quot;our best minds&amp;quot; aren&amp;#x27;t the ones building the ape avatars. They are working on the fundamental advancements of AI itself. Once those tools are built, it doesn&amp;#x27;t take nearly as much &amp;quot;best brains&amp;quot; to tweak them for specific applications.&lt;p&gt;In other words, you can just think of all these things (cash grabs and otherwise) as an effect of the rapid advancements in AI, in this case manifesting as a growth area of economic activity. As another poster said, others are working on medical applications, climate models, etc. It&amp;#x27;s not a zero-sum game on the application side.</text></comment>
<story><title>Bunny AI</title><url>https://bunny.net/blog/introducing-bunny-optimizer-ai-a-new-way-of-creating-content/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>igammarays</author><text>Am I the only one disappointed by this new wave of AI hype? Seriously, autogenerated avatars? When are our best minds going to work towards actually improving the lives of people? Not monkey JPEG scams, not chat bot bureaucracies, not self-driving cars that fail in bad weather and kill you, but something that actually alleviates humanity&amp;#x27;s biggest problems. Energy, homelessness, pollution and the environment, affordable housing crises in the West, content moderation, the loneliness epidemic - there&amp;#x27;s so much that needs to be done if we can just step out of the current hype cycle and focus on human problems, not just looking for ways to use cool tech.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>graphe</author><text>How is AI going to solve the problems of energy, homelessness, pollution, the environment, affordable housing crises in the West, content moderation, and the loneliness epidemic?&lt;p&gt;Think of what you’re asking from it. You don’t ask coke to solve corona or google to solve world hunger. None of those issues are bottlenecked by AI. If you want to solve those issues, you shouldn’t expect AI researchers to fix them, you can be that change.</text></comment>