Ask HN: If AI didn't exist, what would you be building today?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48616031

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Feels like every idea now has “AI” stapled onto it. Curious what people would focus on if that wasn’t an option, what problems would actually be worth solving?

blinkbat• 1 month ago

Same as now, games, but slower.

purple-leafy3• 1 month ago

Honesty is excellente

mindcrime• 1 month ago

I'd be working on AI.

austin-cheney• 1 month ago

The same thing as now at the same speed as now.

purple-leafy3• 1 month ago

Lol good one, made me chuckle

pknerd• 1 month ago

bots/scraping/websites

__patchbit__• 1 month ago

Popper's 3 World ontological space for Artificial Conscious Intellect (ACI) in JAXA's Kirobi.

neuralkoi• 1 month ago

FB would still be throwing money in the metaverse furnace.

purple-leafy3• 1 month ago

I’d be building an app that can build me apps that build apps.

giardini• 1 month ago

I did that once! It was a rare opportunity caused by a system whose database was (predictably) corrupted by six months of programming errors. Took 3 days to examine the problem and code the fix and 36 minutes of tense run-time to fix the entire database (followed by 3 days of checking done by the DBA independently). What a rush - can't say I miss it though!

mikewarot• 1 month ago

I still want to build a bitgrid, and see if I can democratize petaflops.

Other things I'd like to build/have include an actual Memex that can ingest HTML, and actually use it to mark up hypertext, logging everything for at least a month before discarding the stuff I don't reference again from the cache.

Ask HN: If AI didn't exist, what would you be building today?

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