It would be pretty unusual for a company on the scale of Facebook or Microsoft to go under due to a bubble like this, although it is slightly possible they might slip down a tier in the shuffle. Its more likely well see lots of shitty little companies tacking AI onto things that dont need AI go under, and the speculative ventures burning investor money on market share or technologies that may never turn profitable will be thinned out greatly. Its also possible we could see some big names that dont have revenue outside the AI market suffer financial setbacks and be absorbed. Its also possible the bubble could continue to grow for years and we could see some really ridiculous investments and an even more devastating crash in the end.
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Even technologies that totally transform society, like trains or the Internet, can overinvest and eventually pop. It doesnt mean the tech goes away, it just means investors take a bath and the dead weight gets burned off.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, AppearanceEnglish2·21 days agoI think its mostly just how thin his skin is and how hes publicising these events. Usually with a VIP political figure addressing the troops the big concern is physical security. They know full well that ~50% of the people in the room hate their guts, and they are totally ok with and used to that. They also know everyone will at least keep their mouth shut if they disagree.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, AppearanceEnglish2·21 days agoThey kind of have to. They can order to them to stand there for the speech and to cheer at the end, but there are a lot of ways to interpret that order. Better to hand pick people who want to be there, rather than deal with a bunch of sarcastic soldiers trying to make their displeasure known on camera.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI's annualized revenue hits $10 billion, up from $5.5 billion in December 2024English10·23 days agoThats less than 50 million GPT plus subscriptions, even fewer if you factor in the more expensive subscriptions. Thats alot of subscriptions, but not an implausible number.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•What we know so far: Trump and Musk’s spectacular public blowup rocks WashingtonEnglish4·27 days agoWait, Im confused. Which ones the hyper capitalist and which ones the fascist?
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviewsEnglish141·2 months agoHow much joy and creativity do think there was in these places before?
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•US pulls out of formal peace talks between Ukraine and RussiaEnglish332·2 months agoProbably not. Russia’s motives dont stem from a communications failure. They stem from predatory imperialist intent, and they arnt scared of the EU or Canada.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Sean 'Diddy' Combs rejects plea deal ahead of sex trafficking trialEnglish20·2 months agoOnly legally. If he was angling for a pardon the story would be he was a heroic innocent alpha male wrongly convicted by a woke liberal California court trying to silence him because of democrat feminism Obama.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•It Certainly Looks Like Elon Musk’s ‘Legion’ of Kids Is Bigger Than Anyone ImaginedEnglish61·3 months agoIn two generations well probably be banging rocks together in a irradiated hellscape and Ill hopefully be long dead.
Creating an enduring positive legacy takes effort, and neither Jobs or Bezos really made an attempt. Guys like Musk and Gates are making that effort and are likely to be remembered, although I think its pretty unlikely Musk will ever be able to restore a positive connotation to his name.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•It Certainly Looks Like Elon Musk’s ‘Legion’ of Kids Is Bigger Than Anyone ImaginedEnglish71·3 months agoYou know their name. Just about everyone reading your comment knows their names as well. Further, when most people hear their names the first thing that pops into their head is something positive and prestigious, not the awful things they did to make their fortunes. Many of their descendants are still wealthy and powerful to this day. It doesn’t really make much difference if people spend time looking at their portraits.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating SystemsEnglish81·3 months agoDont buy a project car if you dont want a project. Some people like that shit, but its not for everyone.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating SystemsEnglish161·3 months agoDont use freaking Arch if your goal is to get everything to work out of the box?
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicadoEnglish141·3 months agoIf he was prominent in crypto research theres a good chance he was or had previously worked for them as well. This sounds like espionage to me. I know everyone is scared its Trump related, but this isnt how him or his lackeys operate at all.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools fasterEnglish1·4 months agoThat would be great, but I just don’t see it happening. The way things are going well be lucky to have a Department of Education in a few years, and public schools might be following right behind. Even if everything turns around tomorrow, all the resources in the world wont get everyone to the level you are aiming at. There are people out there who do not see any value in literacy and there are people who don’t have the brain power. You could assign full time private tutors to follow them around and try to teach them things for their whole lives and you’d barely get anywhere. That’s just something well have to live with. There’s never been a society where everyone was intellectually active, its always been a more or less influential minority. If you want to improve society the best approach making the intellectual voice more influential, not trying to educate the gleefully ignorant.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools fasterEnglish31·4 months agoIs that any worse than people getting their world view from a talking head on 24 news, five second video clips on their phone, or a self curated selection of rage bait propaganda online? The mental decline of humanity is perpetual and overstated.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools fasterEnglish31·4 months agoIt sounds like you are talking about use in education then, which is a different issue altogether.
You can and should set your AI to push back against poor reasoning and unsupported claims. They arnt very smart, but they will try.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools fasterEnglish52·4 months agoAn AI can produce content that is higher quality than the prompts they are given, particularly for formulaic tasks. I do agree that it would be nice if everyone were more educated, but a large portion of the population will never get there. If simply denying them AI was going to result in a blossoming of self education it would have already happened by now.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools fasterEnglish42·4 months agoI dont really think its fair to expect the barely literate to have writing endeavours. They are just trying to communicate without embarrassing themselves.
But they do. Lots of crap has “AI powered” plastered on the investor prospectus with no real world application. The worst Ive seen has been targeted at audiences that wernt burned by .com, such as in China, but even in the US youll have a hard time finding a startup that doesnt incorporate AI in some way.