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The AI bubble could burst — and take the economy with it - The Boston Globe (www.bostonglobe.com)
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[–] 25 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Not could. It's a mathematical certainty that it will. Barring a breakthrough miracle -- fat chance.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    It really feels like the options are:

    • Bubble bursts because it requires more money than the entire global economy not too at this point.
    • Total regulatory capture and we just somehow keep it going forever to the detriment and gradual decay of literally everything else.
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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    An AI breakthrough has nothing to do with LLMs, it's like saying the auto industry will collapse except if there is an AI breakthrough that saves it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    That's what a breakthrough means. But obviously all the funding is burned up in more DCs with incremental iteration on the same design. So the bubble has to pop for real innovation. But I think this coming AI winter will be permanent, as things are very visibly falling apart.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    Well yeah, but my statement is true anyways IMO. Deep neural networks are unchanged since the eighties I guess, and again IMO it's not they who need/can have a breakthrough, doubly especially since nobody seems to be working on anything else than "bigger datasets" and profiling and such.

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