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Everyone is gambling on the current iteration of AI being disruptive, I'm just not seeing the path. Not afraid to be wrong! But no one has produced the killer app, they're just betting they will at some point and no one wants to be left behind. LOL, remember Xerox PARC giving Gates and Jobs the keys to the kingdom? Kodak developing a digital camera and not seeing any future in it?
Even if something comes of this, there's a serious issue coming up. Not fond of dotcom bust comparisons, but there are some valid points. As with the dotcom bubble, winners will arise from the ashes, but... But no one hated the internet because of the dotcom crash. I think this bubble's going to crash the world economy so hard that AI will afterwards be viewed as poisonous. Talking Butlerian Jihad kinda hate.
The Buffett Index is in all new territory.
https://www.longtermtrends.net/market-cap-to-gdp-the-buffett-indicator/
Gosh! What happened in 1999 and 2007? The index is at 200%+ today. It was 130% in 1929. And all that non-existent money is wrapped up in AI.
One thing that's different today is that lot of that money is mike surplus miney, or so I feel. Wages and productivity split in the seventies, almost like we earn "enough" to not overthrow our government, and the rest is for the rich people to gamble with. I'm no economist but it's like money itself is now a bubble (people can have millions of years of work in their bank account), I wonder what will happen when that one crashes.