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    AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
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    AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

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    1. wordfool on

      There’s been a lot of talk about the AI bubble and how or when it will pop, but Doctorow seems to suggest we need to give it a bit of a kicking to move the inevitable along and avoid becoming reverse centaurs. Personally I’m sensing more pushback to the AI-can-do-everything claims so I’m optimistic we’re close to peak AI, especially if electricity prices spike for consumers in the US this summer due to datacenter power demands. The question then becomes how hard the tech companies and those in their sway will fight to delay the inevitable.

    2. sciolisticism on

      The best thing we could possibly salvage is to permanently ruin the reputation of every snake oil salesman who caused this. Along with a reorientation of the venture capital industry away from this kind of deep idiocy.

    3. DanceDelievery on

      You mean THEY can salvage something, which is streaming service for gaming gpus. They already made sure we don’t get to buy them ourselves anymore by buying them all up just to rent them to us once the ai bubble bursts.

    4. Tired__Dev on

      Its financial speculation bubble built on over hyped tech. No different than the video game or dotcom bubble. It means the same thing, the tech isn’t going anywhere but a more realistic view of it will transpire. It will still grow as a technology and it’s a fantastic technology if you take it for what it is (I take it as a user experience and summarizer)

      When it does fail there will be left over cloud compute and it’ll be grabbed up by other industries like video games and I’ll bet more consumer hardware will be more and more cloud based like chrome books