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.

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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

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.

#AI #MachineLearning #Automation #TechHype #BigTech

📱 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? 🤔

#AI #TechHype

https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/24/12/16/205200/most-iphone-owners-see-little-to-no-value-in-apple-intelligence

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.

#LLM #AI #TechHype #VCBrainDamage

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