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I thought this was a good discussion of the issues regarding the nature of the bubble: https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/19/bubblenomics/#pop https://pluralistic

I thought this was a good discussion of the issues regarding the nature of the bubble: https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/19/bubblenomics/#pop https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/19/bubblenomics/#pop "Once investor subsidies dry up, will the real-world, non-hyperbolic applications for AI be enough to cover these running costs? ... "

hodgesrm 2y ago
This is the issue I would be examining very closely if I ran a company based on subsidized AI models. It's not necessary for companies like OpenAI to go out of business to cause problems: the costs just need to go up to levels necessary to make AI vendors profitable, like what happened with Uber.