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

4•akashwadhwani35•2h ago

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?

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blinkbat•2h ago

Same as now, games, but slower.

mindcrime•1h ago

I'd be working on AI.

austin-cheney•1h ago

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

pknerd•1h ago

bots/scraping/websites

__patchbit__•48m ago

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

neuralkoi•10m ago

FB would still be throwing money in the metaverse furnace.

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