Beyond the Hype: AI, Robotics, and Infrastructure Reality Check
In this episode, Alaina, Danu, and Hamish trade their usual guest format for a freewheeling conversation about what actually mattered in AI and tech over the past year, and what was just noise.
From infrastructure realities like RAM shortages and power grid constraints to the hype around solid-state batteries at CES, we try to separate genuine breakthroughs from marketing spin including:
· the evolution of robotics (Boston Dynamics, anyone?)
· the messy ethics of training data collection
· why cybersecurity in New Zealand still feels like we're living in 2015
The discussion veers through…
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