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philbertoon Microsoft lowers AI software growth targets

No wonder if Microsoft failed to deliver a single AI tool that adds value.

philbertoon Measuring the environmental impact of AI inference

How do you drop something by 33x? That is literally impossible unless they make money by purchasing energy.

philbertoon Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes

So there are virtual stops all over the city. You book a ride let's say city center to your home. The service integrates this route into existing rides or create a new ride. It might stop 5 times on the way to your home and pick up people and drop them. And you as a passenger won't know the route in advance. And it will not be the fastest to your place in most cases.

I guess this is what you call "ride sharing". It is like your parents picking you up from football and realizing the kid from the other part of the town also needs a ride so they make a huge detour

philbertoon Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes

The moia service in Hamburg Germany offers virtual stops which is the next step I would argue. The bus follows a different route and stops every time based on the need of current passengers

https://www.hvv-switch.de/en/faq/what-are-virtual-stops/

philbertoon No one knows what the hell an AI agent is

Barely anyone will use this term in 2 years, just like nobody talks about copilots anymore. But for now: everything is labelled as agent.

philbertoon What CEOs talked about in Q1 2024

Three themes gained noticeable traction in Q1 2024: 1) AI, 2) sustainability, and 3) elections.

AI discussions continue to move away from ChatGPT and other chatbots and toward individual technologies, especially GPUs and LLMs

Economic topics like recession significantly declined, though inflation saw a bump in mentions in Q1 2024.

philbertoon Microsoft's Commitment to Azure IoT

There was a recent erroneous system message on Feb 14th regarding the deprecation of Azure IoT Central. The error message stated that Azure IoT Central will be deprecated on March 31st, 2027 and starting April 1, 2024, you won’t be able to create new application resources. This message is not accurate and was presented in error.

philbertoon Air Force selects AI-enabled predictive maintenance program as system of record

Do you mind sharing a couple of reasons?

philbertoon Autonomous robot to stave off spotted lanternflies

The guy in the video says "We use OpenAI Step API to extract the locations of the detections".

I am unaware of that API and could not find it.

philbertoon Autonomous robot to stave off spotted lanternflies

Which API did they use for location extraction?