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Comment by pixl97

4 hours ago

Internet is a fad, it will implode at any moment.

In fact as a business opportunity it did just that because the massive investment in the mid-late 1990's was without anything like a connection to profitability or sustainable demand. It took years after that crash for the concept of e-commerce to begin both a recovery and evolution into what we see today.

I expect something similar for AI. It's useful tech... just not very profitable tech, and certainly not to the tune of trillions of dollars worth of public demand. The promises of superintelligence, replacing everyone, and the rest of the hype will die with the companies who made the promises, but the tech will survive and thrive.

  • >The promises of superintelligence, replacing everyone, and the rest of the hype will die with the companies who made the promises

    The hype will die but there are many reasons why super intelligence and robots are a separate entity from said hype.

    Look, back a few decades and tell someone our gdp would be in the trillions and it's likely they'd have a hard time believing you. A huge portion of our products that we use day to day would be complete science fiction to them.

    All we're negotiating at this point is the timescale it will take.