Comment by mark_l_watson

Perhaps when society balances benefits of AI against energy and environmental costs? I have worked through two ‘AI winters’ when funding dried up. This might happen again.

I think a possible scenario is that we see huge open source advances in training and inference efficiency that ends up making some of the mega-investments in AI infrastructure look silly.

What will probably ‘save’ the mega-spending is (unfortunately!) the application of AI to the Forever Wars for profit.