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So like, there's probably no more welcoming an audience for such news as Lemmy here and I'm sorta getting swept up in that too, as I feel the dread of the possibilities for what AI could replace if the hype lives up to reality. There's few ways in which I see life for people getting better and a lot of ways this could mess up my life personally and the world at large. So I hear this kind of thing with grim analysis of a big bubble set to burst and, not being best placed to judge the likely accuracy of the assessment, just kinda think "good, fingers crossed for a big bubble burst and AI industry collapse then" but economic issues are a bit of a weak area for me and I wonder before I fully embrace that sentiment, are there big consequences for the rest of us if that happens?
Like, obviously it'd be less ideal for Sam Altman, though he and his ilk would likely still be fine as they always are in such situations. It'd be bad also for anyone working in the AI industry or who'd personally invested in it and itd be bad for any companies in other industries that had put a lot in to AI resources for their companies hoping it'd pay off. But would the rest of us get to just be smug about this and glad of the comeuppance whilst getting all our jobs back or is a bubble bursting going to screw everyone over somehow?
Two of these things don't belong with the third. If you genuinely believed that your product would be curing cancer in a year and a half, would you be grubbing ads and trying to profit from (extremely badly written) porn?
It's a bubble. It cannot live up to the hype and the mongers of it know it.
Sure but my post, while not fully committing to any particular analysis of the future prospects of the sustainability or future success of the current AI technologies that are being discussed here, was about taking the idea that they're all hype and will result in a burst bubble as true for the purposes of discussion and wondering if that will have negative consequences for everyone else like me, who has nothing to do with any of it. My point was I'm usually glad in a schadenfreude way, to hear about people thinking it's a bubble that will burst because it sounds like a stay of execution for me and most of society but I'm wondering if, despite never wanting it to succeed, the failure of AI is going to end up having consequences for everyone or if it will be contained just to those working directly in it or who are heavily invested in it. I'm not really weighing-in on the veracity of the claims of a bubble just looking for perspective on what happens if it IS one.
Oh, the whole USAnal economy is doomed when the bubble bursts and the shock waves from it will do serious damage to anybody who trades with the USA. There's well over a trillion dollars in a financial circle jerk in the market and when that vanishes in a puff of common sense, this is going to HURT.