Technology

Calling electric cars part of a hype cycle feels a little disingenuous to me. Either we get rid of cars, society ends, or all cars go electric. Considering that option 1 causes option 2 unless there's a revolutionary tech breakthrough, I think it's safe to assume electric cars are the future. Also I don't forsee a peak in hype for them, there's generally a lot of resistance to electric cars

Aside from the random dig at electric cars, I largely agree with this article. I don't think the chicken coop machine learning example is quite clear to non-technical people, but I think it's probably appropriate for the lemmy userbase

" mostly hype and won't take everybody's job or end humanity."

That's true for the Mexicans too but we're still scared to death of them.

Good luck calming us down when we are programmed to scream.

AGI itself won't end us, but the land, water and energy needs of the massive data centers needed to scale up the computation needed for AI development sure are gonna try

Today I learned: layman, laymen, laywoman, laywomen, layperson, and laypeople are all real words. I thought it was just "layman".