AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble

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AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble
futurism.com

As the AI market continues to balloon, experts are warning that its VC-driven rise is eerily similar to that of the dot com bubble.

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It's starting to look like the crypto/nft scam because it is the same fucking assholes forcing this bullshit on all of us.

As someone that currently works in AI/ML, with a lot of very talented scientists with PhD's and dozens of papers against their name, it boils my piss when I see crypto cunts I used to know that are suddenly all on the AI train, trying to peddle their "influence" on LinkedIn.

I said the same thing. It feels like that. I wonder if there's some sociological study behind what has been pushing "wrappers" of implementations at high volume. Wrappers meaning, 90%+ of the companies are not incorporating Intellectual Property of any kind and saturating the markets with re-implementations for quick income and then scrapping. I feel this is not a new thing. But, for some reason it feels way more "in my face" the past 4 years.

NFTs in their mainstream form were the most cringe-worthy concept imaginable. A random artist makes a random ape which suddenly becomes a collectible, and all it happened to be was an S3 url on a particular blockchain? Which could be replicated on another chain? How did people think this was a smart thing to invest in?! Especially the Apes and rubbish?!

cryptonft is shit though. At least "A.I" have actual tech behind it.

Crypto had real tech behind it too. The reason it was bullshit wasn't that there wasn't serious tech backing it, it's that there was no use case that wasn't a shittier version of something else.

yeah "real tech". crypto/nft is not real as in it is useless. as of now. it is useful to criminal though.

A broken clock is right twice a day. The crypto dumbasses jump on every trend, so you still need to evaluate it on its own merits. The crypto Bros couldn't come up with a real world compelling use case over years and years, so that was obviously bullshit. Generative AI is just kicking off and there are already tons of use cases for it.