I liked Intuitive Machines' press conference after their successful landing on the Moon. Professional people, serious, completely hype-less, and thoroughly technical. No question was left unanswered. Congratulations to all who contributed to this success story.
Now, the part I don't get is this "space economy". What space economy? #NASA (a.k.a. the tax payer) is paying all the bills. Better cut the #hype and call it "subsidized space adventures", because that's what it is.
#AI#GenerativeAI#Hype: "The hype around artificial intelligence may be normalizing, according to company earnings calls over the past two quarters.
According to data compiled by Bloomberg and Apollo chief economist Torsten Sløk, the number of times that the words "AI," "machine learning," or "generative AI" were mentioned on earnings calls decreased from 517 instances in Q4 2023 to just 198 in Q1 2024. (Disclosure: Yahoo Finance is owned by Apollo Global Management.)
“The positive effects of technology continue to support firms, consumers and economic growth,” Sløk told Yahoo Finance over email. “The question is if AI is anything special. So far it looks like AI is not a revolution but just a continuation of the tech trend that started in the 1990s.”"
“Google says it’s pausing the ability for its Gemini AI to generate images of people, after the tool was found to be generating inaccurate historical images. Gemini has been creating diverse images of the US Founding Fathers and Nazi-era German soldiers, in what looked like an attempt to subvert the gender and racial stereotypes found in generative AI”
All the current hype in a single newspaper article (from the ANSA website, Italian press agency).
"Veneto
The first artisanal shoe designed by artificial intelligence debuts
An Italian artisanal shoe, handmade by a company accustomed to working for the big luxury brands, but designed by artificial intelligence and monitored, in every phase of the processing, by blockchain technology."
Cyber..uck?!
It seems that it's not only the "unbreakable" windows that were a lie 😀, the whole thing is all hat and no cattle, a toy that ... looks tough 🤣
Read about and watch the misery of driving a #Tesla#Cybertrack off road. In a nutshell:
"you don't need to spend $80+ thousand to go out on the trails and have some fun", that is, if you find it fun to fail and have your car fall apart. 😂
The most impressive accomplishment of the generative model bubble to date is in the sheer number of people who I used to respect but have disappointed me lately by chasing the bubble.
This is an irrational economic and cultural bubble. Participating in any way shape or form is already a no-win situation. You're too late to be one of the big winners and the bubble dynamic is already baked in and will only get less rational from now on.
#KI ist cool. Es gibt Leute, die haben Spass damit; es gibt Leute, die ihre Produktivität damit boosten. Und es gibt Firmen und Milliardäre, die von diesem #Hype profitieren wollen:
➡️ Nützliche kleine Hilfsmittel anbieten oder
➡️ Mit revolutionären—möglicherweise unhaltbaren—Versprechen Politiker und CEOs um ihre Finger wickeln.
The blockchain. It’s just a less efficient spreadsheet. For some reason, there’s still chatter in Congress about regulating crypto, and CNBC and Bloomberg cover bitcoin as if it’s anything more than looking at the price of Beanie Babies.
AI probably isn’t overhyped, but the policy discourse is. AI is a business method, not a product. It’s a bit like the wheel. There are wheels on trains, cars, toys and industrial machinery. We don’t have a wheel regulator or wheel-specific laws. We make laws and rules based on industrial sectors or basic legal concepts, like fraud or deception.
So for instance, if you want to understand AI in search, think about the antitrust cases against Google, which will determine how machine learning is rolled out and who can innovate and reach customers. Or if you want to understand AI in health care, look at what UnitedHealth Group is doing with its unique data sets. If you want to understand building LLMs, look at Nvidia’s market power or cloud computing competition. And so forth. But there isn’t “AI policy,” that’s just a substitute for actually doing the grubby work of analyzing how markets and legal frameworks actually work in every sector."
Just like the Mechanical Turk of 1770, everyone has been so focused on the technology itself that they’ve missed the human factors that power the entire spectacle.
"Just take one step back and look at the hype through this lens. All the big, exciting uses for AI are either low-dollar (helping kids cheat on their homework, generating stock art for bottom-feeding publications) or high-stakes and fault-intolerant (self-driving cars, radiology, hiring, etc.)."
Last November we had the opportunity to attend an exclusive twenty-minute screening of ‘Dune: Part II’, the highly anticipated second installment of the monumental adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction classic that Denis Villeneuve is carrying out. Of course, it is early to give an opinion, but we can assure that...
"Wenn wir nicht aufpassen, werden Microsoft, Amazon und Co. ihre Position ausnutzen, um die politische Agenda für KI zu bestimmen, warnen drei Expertinnen."
Ich empfinde den Marketing-Stunt, den Sam Altman in den letzten Tagen hinlegt, ziemlich perfide. Er hat ja immer schon die Strategie der Widersprüche verfolgt, um ins Rampenlicht zu gelangen. Um die Technik etwas zu relativieren, möchte ich anführen, dass wir ähnliche Fähigkeiten bereits auf dem C64 hatten, wo wir automatisiert Gedichte nach Versmass erstellt haben. Ok, damals kam so etwas wie 'Conan tötet die Hüte' heraus, aber viel weiter sind wir heute technologisch auch nicht. #chatgpt#hype
A #gadgeteer is also the naive or careless person who wears these #gadgets and is either oblivious of the detrimental externalities of the tech to society, or criminally negligent of those (usually #trend-following hipsters).
A word invented to stimulate mindless #consumerism. Used for stupid devices one "just must have" for vanity reasons and because the #hype says so. The more expensive the device the shinier it is perceived to be, and helps trigger jealously with peers of the #gadgeteer. So they also crave the gadget now. One must buy a gadget asap, or it is no longer a gadget when it is replaced with a newer version or something else that's become the fad of the day.
We have seen 20 minutes of 'Dune II' with Villeneuve and we have good news: the expectation is more than justified (www.ruetir.com)
Last November we had the opportunity to attend an exclusive twenty-minute screening of ‘Dune: Part II’, the highly anticipated second installment of the monumental adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction classic that Denis Villeneuve is carrying out. Of course, it is early to give an opinion, but we can assure that...