It feels like every few months there’s a new tech “revolution” being hyped up as the future. Besides AI, what’s the most overhyped trend in tech right now? For me, it’s the constant buzz around the metaverse.

  • frog_brawler@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Other than AI, it’s automation. It’s pretty good when it works but has the same overall intent as AI (in reducing the human labor force), just on a smaller level. At least automation isn’t consistently delivering inaccurate information.

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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      2 months ago

      What sort of automation specifically are you referring to? I work in commercial building automation, which is basically tying various systems like fire/burg alarms, access control, energy/lighting management, intercoms, and everything else together using TCP/IP networking, RS-232/485, and dry-contact relay triggers everywhere. For instance, unlocking all doors and stopping elevator access when the fire alarm goes off. Or automatically disarming a burglar alarm and turning on the lights when the first person in the morning scans their badge. In that sense, it works great and has been working for decades.

      If you mean robots taking all our jobs, yeah that’s about 100 years out.

      • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        That’s super interesting. How do you get started at something like that? Or where would a newcomer start to learn more about it?

        • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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          2 months ago

          With me, I started applying at electronic security companies 20 years ago as a helper to pull cable and hang cameras, the simpler, more labor intensive stuff. They are always looking for people like that as the older folks like me go more into the head end set up and programming because our bodies hurt too much 😁. I learned 90% of what I know from on the job training, the rest I already had sort of a background in electronics because of my personal hobbies.

      • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        2 months ago

        RiscV is a fundamentally different story then Arm, currently speaking RiscV is not there yet however I have more hope in the future of RiscV then Arm. Both hardware and software side RiscV is not ready however the idea of a fully open source computer still excites me. I understand however that I may be speaking more out of idealism and im certainly biased however I still hope that RiscV overtakes Arm.

    • bokherif@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Well arm cpu’s get you insane battery life (ie. Macbook M series or new snapdragons). The architecture has not settled in yet but it will take some time

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I feel like both new cars and phones have been overhyped for a while now.

    Ai is simultaneously over and under hyped depending on context.

    • Bogasse@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I think the phone industry is trying very hard to look interesting but it’s been a while since anybody cared? Or is it really just me?

      • pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I feel the same. I think they got to a point where there’s nothing else left to improve, no interesting features to add.

        The only feature I am really looking forward to is the return of removable batteries.

        • drawerair@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          29 days ago

          Phones are like 💻 now. The year-to-year improvements are tiny. Some factors related to this –

          At least for folks like me who sometimes read re chips, chip improvements are 👍. But big year-to-year improvements are probably hard. If it was easy, Apple or Qualcomm may have already made a chip that was 2 or 3 times faster than the old 1.

          So hard to have a clean implementation of under-screen cam and face recognition sensors. Hence, hole punch. Samsung fold has an under-screen front cam but the implemention wasn’t clean and the pic quality is below average.

          So hard to make a 🔋 that’s 2 or 3 times better than the old 🔋. The tech world has been so hungry for a 🔋 innovation for a long time. There was optimism re graphene. Idk if it’ll succeed in mass production.

  • surfrock66@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Cloud. Businesses went all in on cloud under this illusion of stable costs, but costs go up and contol/support have gone down, and I’m seeing businesses spin on-prem back up.