The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?

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• heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Its like bubble wrap, because someone is gonna have fun popping it

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• etherphon@piefed.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is something really a boom when it's literally forced upon you unwillingly?

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• fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• DrFistington@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ROFL. iS iT a bUBblE?!?

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  lol

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Always has been

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• misk@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When mainstream media starts asking if something is a bubble, it’s not only already been one for quite a while already, but it’s about to pop.

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  • three_trains_in_a_trenchcoat@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yeah. I'm wondering if GPT-5 being a wet fart is going to be the thing that pops the bubble.

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    • LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Was there a lot of hype surrounding the new launch? I didn’t really keep up with it.

      Regardless, I think it’ll take a bigger disappointment to burst it. Maybe something on the corporate side, like big players investing a lot of money on it and not seeing a return.

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    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks, now my mental image of the AI bubble is now shit-coloured.

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• Feyd@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  🌏👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀🌌

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s been a bubble since GPT2 guys, get with the program.

  There is zero chance even half of all these AI product companies still exist in half a decade.

  Now if you don’t mind I reckon I’m gonna Alta Vista search for CDNow and then webvan something from pets.com

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• IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For some it will be. For the pure AI software companies, yes. For the hardware vendors and data centers, less so. Even if it’s not for generative AI, there will always be need for hyper scale compute.

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, hardware prices will fall if there’s a crash, like they did with crypto GPU mining.

    I am salivating over this. Bring out the firesale A100s.

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  • misk@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What’s the commercial use for current capacity of hyper scale compute?

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not a lot? The quirk is they’ve hyper specialized nodes around AI.

      The GPU boxes are useful for some other things, but they will be massively oversupplied, and they mostly aren’t networked like supercomputer clusters.

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  • bacon_pdp@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When entire state governments can fit in a single Rack, why bother?

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    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      An entire state government could fit it your cellphone. That’s never been one of the use cases for data center level compute.

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• Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Always has been.

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