Why the A.i. Boom Is Unlike the Dot-Com Boom
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What about Anthropic and OpenAI both being in loss? What about various other VC funded AI companies? Those are essentially the description of the last line.
>Many business leaders, by contrast, are eager to take up A.I. as soon as they can.
> Relatively few regulatory barriers are standing in the way of A.I. The Trump administration is doing all it can to enable an A.I. future.
Are they? Aren't there a load of compliance issues popping up wrt to data privacy? How many businesses today are laying off people actually because of AI (vs just claiming AI for headcount reductions)?
Mostly throughout the article, every point that argues in favor of "this time its different" has an equally problematic "time is a flat circle" when you re-read it. Some examples:
>many dot-com businesses did not work because the products were too expensive and the customers too few.
>Dot-coms were under great pressure to rack up revenue and justify their extreme valuations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4XoK7PbeCY
Investors that have no idea of what the tech is really doing, nor even the huge copyright implications are flocking to invest based on agenda-laced news reports of Ai taking jobs, and for that very reason it's creating a huge set up. Ai is over-promised already, just like self checkouts at the supermarkets, everyone in EV self-driving cars , and speed cameras in preventing crimes were years ago..>
These things are made to drive company profit, and they do, even well after law suits are settled, so I guess that's why it keeps happening with funded mega-marketing campaigns.
Twitter came out of the Dot.Com era, so did many other tools we still use... Let's hope that they change Ai and social media to generate actual money and useability for non-corporate-backed humans without ever-increasing monthly subscriptions... That's the only way it won't end up shelved as a meme generator, or just used as an expensive calculator. It's pretty good at math though.
Twitter ended up later going from one of the world's most valuable platforms to being a meme of itself for only $45 billion. Great job they did there.