Oh, and the weekly battery articles too. “This new battery will charge in 10 minutes and last 2 weeks.”
calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
From the makers of “fusion energy in 20 years”, “full self driving next year” and “AI will take your job in 3 months” cones “all code will be AI in 6 months”.
Trust me, it’s for real this time. The new healthcare system is 2 weeks away.
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 2 days ago
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 days ago
As much as I hate sensational headlines about batteries, my phone charges zero to full in 20 minutes. The changes just come very gradually, like +5% per year, but they do add up.
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 2 days ago
Yes. That’s true, but the major headlines don’t tell you about any of the 1-5% improvements that undoubtedly are happening all the time. The headlines focus on stuff that is either highly theoretical or still in the lab for the next few decades. If you want to read about what’s actually realistic and about to be implemented in production, those articles are probably in some battery engineering journals.
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 days ago
For sure, who would interact with a +2% in longevity for sodium batteries article …
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 2 days ago
To be fair fusion energy got less than the minnimum ‘fusion never’ funding, AI on the other hand is getting all the money in the damn world.
affenlehrer@feddit.org 2 days ago
As far as I know fusion energy never got that level of hype and amount of money thrown at it. I mean the research reactors are super expensive but still on another level.
Tanoh@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Imagine if it did get that kind of funding
calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“in 20 years” doesn’t get as much hype as “in 3 months”
Maybe if they said “in 3 months” instead we would’ve actually have had it in 20 years. Seeing how much ai attracts money with these obviously unbelievable promises.
affenlehrer@feddit.org 2 days ago
Unlike fusion reactors AI has a pretty convincing “demo” in my opinion.
On a first glance the output of LLMs and image / video generator models is very convincing and the artifacts and mistakes appear “small” for people that don’t know much about the technical details. So it’s easy to be convinced by “we’ll just fix those little bugs and be done in half a year” promises.
EV is a similar story: electric bikes and radio controlled cars and drones work great so it’s conceivable that bigger cars and trucks would work too with a “little” battery and motor tweaking.
Nuclear fusion though isn’t really tangible yet. For laypeople or seems there is no progress at all. Every now and then some scientists report that they can hold a fusion reaction a little longer or more effective but it’s not “tangible”. That’s probably also holding back a lot of investors which with all their resources mostly still seem to invest based on a gut feeling.