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Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

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51 points ForHackernews | 1 comments | 07 Sep 25 19:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dijit ◴[07 Sep 25 20:37 UTC] No.45161904[source]▶
Is it even a question that we’re in a bubble?

The effects of the technology would have to rival that of.. idk, soap and the locomotive combined? In order for us not to be in a bubble.

It has swallowed nearly all discourse about technology and almost all development, nearly every single area of technology is showing markers of recession.. except AI, which has massively inflated salaries and valuations.

I can’t even think of a scenario where we don’t look back on this as a bubble. What does the tech need to be able to do in order to cover its investment?

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usrnm ◴[07 Sep 25 20:49 UTC] No.45161991[source]▶
AI can be a bubble and a real technological revolution at the same time, there is absolutely no reason these two things need to be mutually exclusive. The most recent example is the Internet in the late 90s-early 2000s. It was a bubble, it did crash and it did eventually fulfill all af its promises and more. There is no contradiction here
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1. kjkjadksj ◴[07 Sep 25 21:13 UTC] No.45162211[source]▶
The difference with the .com era is that a website is and was immediately useful when it came out. Yes there was too much speculative investment, but the inherent merits of the technology were plainly obvious.

This is not the case with AI. It is not even clear if these tools are useful. This really is much more an “Emperor has no clothes” situation, which is why this bubble is perhaps more dangerous.