🚀 Dive into the riveting world of AI development where buzzwords like "LLM" and "AI Agents" are thrown around like confetti at a tech bro's party. 🤖 Apparently, not every AI system needs to sprout sentience—who knew? Maybe the "key" to success is just avoiding the tech hype minefield. 🎉
https://www.codelink.io/blog/post/ai-system-development-llm-rag-ai-workflow-agent #AIdevelopment #LLM #AIagents #TechHype #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated
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Wayve x Uber: Robotaxis Face Reality
Wayve and Uber are launching autonomous vehicles in London by 2026. If their adaptive AI can handle the city’s chaos, it could finally prove robotaxis are ready. If not, it’s another overhyped flop.
#Wayve #Uber #Robotaxi #AutonomousVehicles #AI #LondonTest #TechHype #FutureOfTransport #TECHi
Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/wayve-uber-robotaxi-london-2026-autonomous-vehicle-test/
IBM promises Starling, the first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029. It’s a high-stakes move backed by a new error-correction tech (qLDPC) that could fix quantum’s long-standing flaws. But after 40 years of hype and little real-world payoff, skepticism runs high.
#QuantumComputing #IBM #Starling #TechHype #qLDPC #Moonshot #FutureTech #Skepticism #InnovationOrIllusion #TECHi
Read Full Article Here : - https://www.techi.com/ibm-starling-quantum-computer-2029-breakthrough-or-hype/
Amodei, Altman, labour market forecasts, alleged unemployment, shifting skills, and seller hoaxes.
Yes, the discussion deserves a lot of attention, but at this stage the hype mixed with communication from lobbies and pure sales activities leads to putting together easy correlations on some data.
Even two years ago hallucinating scenarios were told (or rather here, hallucinated 🙃), related to the adoption of GenAI.
When we look at these scenarios today, in the light of the real data not on adoption but above all on the steps backwards compared to corporate contracts, we realise that things are always a little more complicated on the ground.
It is true that automation takes away space for juniors, but it is also true that for everyone else new figures are becoming necessary, IT jobs are not decreasing (despite the initial layouffs rushed by many US companies that now re-employ them with different job descriptions), because today there are gains in overall productivity that are laughable with an increase in pressure on individuals (and the levelling logics suggest that when a technology reaches everyone, it increases performance but not the volume of work).
Drawing conclusions in these moments, when you are too attentive to bubbles like this here - and less to data and research (the real one, not the one of the sellers' reports!) - leads to bad decisions.
#Amodei #Altman #LabourMarket #FutureOfWork #Unemployment #SkillShift #Automation #GenAI #TechTrends #DataAnalysis #CorporateTech #Productivity #ITJobs #TechInsights #HallucinatingScenarios #TechHype #ResearchMatters #TechDecisions
AI agents are the latest buzzword, but even VCs lack a clear definition. Hype suggests human replacement, but current tech is more like reasoning LLMs for multi-step tasks. Skepticism about bold claims is wise.
#AIAgents #TechHype #AI
Companies love to hype AI as a revolutionary force, but most of it boils down to pattern recognition and statistical probability. Machine learning has existed for decades. Neural networks were theorized in the 1940s, and algorithms like backpropagation emerged in the 1980s. What changed? Compute power and marketing.
Big Tech sells AI as "thinking machines," but they’re just probabilistic parrots predicting the next word, pixel, or action. The real question isn’t whether AI is intelligent, it’s how much control we’re handing over to black-box systems built on biased data and corporate interests.
📱 Turns out "Apple Intelligence" is making users feel rather unintelligent about their purchase choices. Survey shows 73% of iPhone users find AI features add little to no value.
Shocking revelation: People want useful features, not marketing buzzwords. Who knew? 🤔
Got a phishing email and wanted to see where the phone number mapped to. (And yeah, I get area codes are pointless these days)
me: (google)Area code 527
google: ``` AI Overview
Area code 527 is a California code that relates to preliminary injunctions:
CCP 527: A verified complaint or affidavits can be used to request a preliminary injunction before judgment
```
Anyone who uses these tools gets what they deserve.
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@botwiki Okay, so now we have some data.
"The study from Reuters Institute and Oxford University (via BBC), which surveyed over 12,000 people across six countries, seemingly reveals how little that AI hype has percolated down to real-world use, for now."
Between this public admission of what many of us already knew, and this recent news (sorry, can't find an unpaywalled version: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/generative-ai-providers-quietly-tamp-down-expectations), I wonder if we can start to hope to see the hype slowly die down.
"Microsoft Paint is getting new image generation powers with a new tool called Cocreator. [...] Cocreator can generate images based on text prompts as well as your own doodles in the Paint app."
The way tech companies push "AI", I don't know. I was hoping this is just another tech hype that I can wait out, like with Bitcoin and Metaverse, but there just seems no end in sight this time.
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Damn, I was suddenly reminded that the Tech-Bro Hypes about how a new technology would revolutionize daily life and society didn't start with the dotcom bubble in the late 90s.
It goes back at leas to the early 80s.
Robot servants at home were the future, man!
And this whole current AI fad looks indistinguishable to me.
@malwaretech
🥥 Your dissertation on #TechHype won all my internetz today, Marcus.
Mad propz, bravo, kudos, and pleez take a victory lap! Very well said indeed! 🥥
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast
Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this podcast, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna break down the AI hype, separate fact from fiction, and science from bloviation. They're joined by special guests and talk about everything, from machine consciousness to science fiction, to political economy to art made by machines. @DAIR
https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/mystery-ai-hype-theater-3000/4489370
#ai #techhype
can someone rescue politico? they seem to be trapped in 2021
![China wants to define how a [begin highlight] new, promising technology called the metaverse [end highlight] works — and it is pushing proposals that bear an eerie resemblance to the country's controversial social credit systems, proposals reviewed by POLITICO showed.](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/110/928/727/913/520/429/original/7150679ace3e3c0f.png)
"We can mitigate extant inequalities by tweaking the tech we have, if we would only choose to do so. Instead, we wax poetic about, and spend gazillions on, trying to achieve the Singularity." - @arstechnica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/get-used-to-disappointment-why-technology-often-doesnt-meet-the-hype/
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