AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
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The article discusses the possibility of an AI bubble bursting, with commenters weighing in on the likelihood and potential consequences, highlighting both the hype and the genuine advancements in the field.
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OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, etc. obviously won’t collapse.
The money being thrown around is mind boggling. However, we’ve throwing this type of money around for a handful of years now.
Tons of layoffs, homelessness, corruption, unemployment, difficulties for everyone to find a job, the incoming SNAP meltdown, government shutdown and the mess it’s going to cause for a while. None of it makes sense. It’s pure crazy because everything should have imploded by now. Don’t ask my it hasn’t yet. The tech layoff and government layoffs alone should be causing a shitstorm of misery out there, but it’s hidden somehow.
AI isn’t going away. It’s here to stay. It has already become embedded into so many core things we do everyday. So many jobs are affected by it. Like, marketing, graphic design, writing, so many jobs in hollywood, like storyboarding and voiceover work, and the creative process of so many things. So many scenes today in movies are CGI and it’s hard to tell, like 3-second scenes, or CGI overlays. All of that will be created with a prompt in the next couple of years. Sure, some editing will be needed for the generated scenes, but with far less staff. They key takeaway here is that this equates to millions of jobs vanishing rather quickly. Core jobs that people of all ages based their careers on.
All those data center GPU buildouts will not go waste. We’re headed for a dystopia that’s even worse than the one we’re living in right now.
It has had a profound impact; probably much more (no matter which camp wins the argument, bulls or bears on AI) than its inventors ever thought it would. It makes me think of whether the people who invented this, once they see the end result, will be happy with their invention and the changes it will create in the world.
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