The reason to read Hacker News on AI is much less to learn anything and much more to learn what other people are thinking. The passion, the intensity, the fervor!!!
Top-voted comment is really doing its best to coax anyone and everyone out of their holes:
I think the author is far too pessimistic about the capabilities of ML...However - the level of Silicon Valley Bro VC funded hype is totally out of this world.
And (roughly) immediately eveything devolves into arguments about self-driving cars. Rightly so?