#techhype — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #techhype, aggregated by home.social.
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Is that "AI" really AI, or just fancy autocomplete? 🤔 We're diving into the truth behind the buzz and separating hype from reality. Learn what's *actually* happening with algorithmic tech. Check it out! 💻 #AIReality #TechHype #L
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Moltbook hype? Mostly manufactured.
Not “early singularity”, a weakly secured, vibe-coded platform got exploited fast.
Fake agents, no rate limiting, scripted posts/upvotes, token speculation.AI agents are getting better, yes. But this was not AGI.
It was hype amplification.Don’t confuse virality with a breakthrough.
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I'm coining a term: "AI-Drunk" 🥴
You might be AI-Drunk if you say things like:
• "Anything humans can do, AI does better"
• "Everyone will lose their jobs"
• "Legacy tech is dead"It's impaired judgment caused by overdosing on hype. I'm sure you all know someone who needs an intervention.
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I'm coining a term: "AI-Drunk" 🥴
You might be AI-Drunk if you say things like:
• "Anything humans can do, AI does better"
• "Everyone will lose their jobs"
• "Legacy tech is dead"It's impaired judgment caused by overdosing on hype. I'm sure you all know someone who needs an intervention.
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The tech industry is driven by hype not pragmatism. AI is a bubble just like the dot com bubble. The tech industry is driven by short term thinking not long term thinking.
#aibubble
#techhype
#fuckbillionaires
#fucktechceos
#jailbillionaires
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The tech industry is driven by hype not pragmatism. AI is a bubble just like the dot com bubble. The tech industry is driven by short term thinking not long term thinking.
#aibubble
#techhype
#fuckbillionaires
#fucktechceos
#jailbillionaires
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KI macht alles billiger? Von wegen. 💸
Der #IMHO von @mfeilner zeigt, warum der KI-Boom gerade dabei ist, zur Kostenfalle für Privathaushalte und Steuerzahler zu werden: explodierende Strompreise, Subventionen für Rechenzentren, fossile Energie als Comeback-Kid. Und der versprochene Produktivitätsschub? Bleibt meist aus.
👉 Der Artikel ist nur noch kurz frei verfügbar – #KI #Energiekrise #TechHype #Digitalpolitik #Klimakrise #KURATIERT - https://Golem.de https://www.golem.de/news/ki-jetzt-wird-es-teuer-fuer-alle-2601-204124.html -
KI macht alles billiger? Von wegen. 💸
Der #IMHO von @mfeilner zeigt, warum der KI-Boom gerade dabei ist, zur Kostenfalle für Privathaushalte und Steuerzahler zu werden: explodierende Strompreise, Subventionen für Rechenzentren, fossile Energie als Comeback-Kid. Und der versprochene Produktivitätsschub? Bleibt meist aus.
👉 Der Artikel ist nur noch kurz frei verfügbar – #KI #Energiekrise #TechHype #Digitalpolitik #Klimakrise #KURATIERT - https://Golem.de https://www.golem.de/news/ki-jetzt-wird-es-teuer-fuer-alle-2601-204124.html -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@NoveltyBot/115871873484945000
"AI in everything, it will be our new God!" (2020s)
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@NoveltyBot/115871873484945000
"AI in everything, it will be our new God!" (2020s)
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Alphabet’s X glorifies failure, calling 98% of failed “moonshots” innovation but it’s more hype than progress. Projects like Waymo and Wing show that X’s “experiments” are costly branding exercises, not real breakthroughs.
#AlphabetX #MoonshotFactory #InnovationMyth #TechHype #Waymo #Google #AstroTeller #TECHi
Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/alphabet-x-moonshot-mirage-ceo-defends-failures/
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The 'AI' label is plastered on everything these days, making its actual meaning blurrier than my vision at 3 AM. This CNET piece dives into how the marketing spree is confusing everyone. What's the most ridiculous 'AI-powered' product you've encountered lately? Let's discuss!
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🚀 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 -
🚀 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 -
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/
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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/
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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
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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
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📱 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? 🤔
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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
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Anyone who uses these tools gets what they deserve. -
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
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I'm interested in #Tech, #monopolies, #UKPolitics, #socialism, #Sociology, #SocialJustice, #restorativejustive, #pacifism, #geopolitics, #HumanRights, #migrantRights, #Palestine, #economics, #MMT, #Philosophy, #Realism, #leftism, #nonviolence, #psychology, #management, #systemsdesign, #unions, #WorkerRights, #solidarity, #intersectionality, #history, #heterodox views, anti-#techhype etc. and probably a fair few other things.
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I need to follow more interesting people. Any recommendations?
I'm interested in #Tech, #monopolies, #UKPolitics, #socialism, #Sociology, #SocialJustice, #restorativejustive, #pacifism, #geopolitics, #HumanRights, #migrantRights, #Palestine, #economics, #MMT, #Philosophy, #Realism, #leftism, #nonviolence, #psychology, #management, #systemsdesign, #unions, #WorkerRights, #solidarity, #intersectionality, #history, #heterodox views, anti-#techhype etc. and probably a fair few other things.
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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."
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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."
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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.
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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.
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"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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"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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🚀 Le super potenti RTX 5090 e RTX 5080 stanno arrivando! Novità confermate per fine anno! #TechHype
🔗 https://www.tomshw.it/hardware/rtx-5090-e-rtx-5080-arrivano-a-fine-anno-spuntano-nuove-conferme
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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can someone rescue politico? they seem to be trapped in 2021
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can someone rescue politico? they seem to be trapped in 2021
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"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/ -
"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/ -
"What I like about the study of digital futures’ past is the sense of perspective it provides." @davekarpf via @niemanlab
This is such a good read that reducing it to one quote is a disservice. It's about the current AI hype train, but more importantly, it's about recognizing underlying clues that we've all seen this movie many, many times before.
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"What I like about the study of digital futures’ past is the sense of perspective it provides." @davekarpf via @niemanlab
This is such a good read that reducing it to one quote is a disservice. It's about the current AI hype train, but more importantly, it's about recognizing underlying clues that we've all seen this movie many, many times before.
