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The future is on deep discount
February 9, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Demonstrating how to produce at-best-questionable-fiction and at worst advice that will get you fired, sued, or killed, many LLM "experts" are happy to tell you with authority how to let software do maximum damage to your life...
www.linkedin.com/posts/conorg...
January 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
#9. Putting individuals at the ❤️ of healthcare

"By 2025, the lines separating culture, information technology and health will be blurred"

AI + sharing economy + real-time biological data has clearly decreased morbidity, mortality and costs across the globe. Why else is Luigi Mangione a folk hero?
January 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
#16: ML & AI expedite decarbonization in carbon-heavy industries

The good news? The author got an exit to Johnson Controls making smart building IoT devices in 2022.

The bad news? We've blown past 1.5°C. And most tech, including AI, stands to create as many new problems as it attempts to solve.
AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change
The tech giants both report surges in greenhouse gas emissions as they double-down on adding artificial intelligence to all of their products.
www.npr.org
January 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
#13: Closing the wealth gap

A fintech CEO promises a more equitable 2025 through financial planning AI bots available to all.

Just don't ask how a Bolivian farmer banking $350 a year is catching up to Elon by using an AI bot run by other billionaires. Clearly he's in on a secret they don't know.
January 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
And the hits keep coming.

#7: grocery retail robotics CEO proclaims we will be drowning in hyper-local robots in our grocery stores in 2025.

As self-checkout struggles:
www.bbc.com/worklife/art...
…Takeoff Technologies now seems to have a “404”k retirement plan:
www.grocerydive.com/news/takeoff...
January 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
We're 100% sure that 73% of "executives" don't understand the difference between ChatGPT and Google Search, let alone being able to define GenAI.

The gap between potential and reality is vast and widening. This isn't a business prediction as much as naive aspiration.

Swing and a miss PwC!
January 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"The Future Ain't What It Used to Be", 2025 Edition
Thanks, WEF!: www.weforum.org/stories/2020...

Let's start with #2: "In 2025, carbon footprints will be viewed as socially unacceptable, much like drink driving is today"

Who of us isn't melting glaciers with chatGPT to solve the Sunday crossword?
Future shocks: 17 technology predictions for 2025
We asked our 2020 intake of Technology Pioneers for their views on how technology will change the world in the next five years. Here are their predictions.
www.weforum.org
January 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Greeting from the future.

Also, a request from the future:
Can you please tidy up a bit?
Things smell a little funky here.
January 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM