So this article does raise some good points - mainly that there are in fact 3 distinct bubbles here with LLMs. However, it handwaves 2 of them as being “irrelevant” for any company that just “”“acts smart”“” and “”“navigates things properly”“”. While it correctly points out that absolutely ABSURD amounts of money are being spent ($7 TRILLION race is the term they use), it compares the AI hypetrain and infrastructure buildouts to the Dot Com Bubble, Amazon, and PayPal, without making the critical connection of “Amazon and PayPal were focused on solving a single problem and spent magnitudes less money to solve it; what the fuck have these LLMs actually DONE??? Where has the fucking money gone???”

Overall, I rate this article a 3/10. It’s pure AI-copium disguised as economic analysis. I recommend many of the pieces by Ed Zitron instead.

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