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> it’s clearly an inevitable part of society now. this won't be true until the financials are squared up. Right now there is a lot of funky math propping up th
by dingnuts 1y ago
> it’s clearly an inevitable part of society now.
this won't be true until the financials are squared up. Right now there is a lot of funky math propping up these companies. If the bet doesn't pay off with real productivity gains the whole AI industry will disappear the way the first generation of AI assistants did ten years ago.
Remember Echo?
- ednite 1y agoYou make a solid point, the financials will ultimately decide how far this goes, as with most things in business. That said, I don’t think it quite echoes Echo (that pun might be intentional) or maybe it does, financially speaking. For me, this wave feels different: deeper integration, broader scale, and real-time utility. I agree, if the returns don’t hold up, a major correction isn’t off the table. It reminds me a bit of the smartphone era, rapid adoption, strong dependence. I guess, the difference is, that phones had clear monetization paths. With AI, we’re still betting. The bigger question for me is, if this all collapses, what happens to the workflows and investments already built around it?
- mholm 1y agoThere's funky math propping up the training of new AI. That much is certainly true. But just running frontier models on hardware is very doable, and is already capable of absolutely changing the software landscape in the next decade, even if nobody ever trains a model again.