Freshen my memory about that. TYIA
Edit: I almost always share a link as support. Just saying.
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It was this thread
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Ah, ok! Forgot about that! I guess that’s my 15 minutes of fame. 
At least I didn’t cite myself. 
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You’re an AI trendsetter.
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AI is so not real that Bernie is against it.
I don’t see anything in this article that cites evidence as to how AI will cause these “catastrophic”, humanity-ending issues.
It’s all speculation, driven by investment. When an industry gets lots of capital, it scares people , and it drives even more investment (due to FOMO)
But as I’ve said over and over again, “AI” (LLMs/Transformers/AI-image/videos) remains to be unprofitable.
The current use of the currently available “AI” technology is not even reaching break-even relative to the costs of data centers.
To get more data centers, you need the de-regulation of energy and environmental policy.
- Increase funding for natural gas and oil to power data centers (unsustainable in the long run)
- De-regulate environmental safety policies to speed up nuclear/SMR construction (major safety hazard for marginalized communities)
- Invest in renewable energy like solar/wind (not dense enough to power data centers, costly, intermittent)
If you take away COE and environmental degradation factors, then AI will have no obstacles
Again, for the100th time, so what if there’s a bubble. Just like the dot.com bubble didn’t kill the internet, AI won’t be killed off by a bubble. It’ll just make the surviving companies stronger. Another example is the cellular business, there were so many players when it first started but in the end just a few took over. Same with computers, so many different brands and companies are now just a few. That’s how it always works.
AI is here to stay, go ahead and try to find all the peripheral “reasons” against it, but the actual product itself is revolutionizing our world.
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Yep. AI is going to change the world.
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New law on regulating AI in Texas goies into effect January 1.
https://www.chron.com/politics/article/new-texas-law-will-establish-ai-council-21267913.php
They were probably blaming the internet for silly things like that as well. It’s like saying the internet is bad because your bank account can be hacked using the internet. Or because you can download porn using the internet.
Make VHS Great Again!
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what companies will survive?
If anyone knew that, they’d be millionaires. If you invested in google or amazon during the dot.com bubble, you’d be golden.
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I would have thought you were intelligent enough to get my point.
Yes, FAANG + Microsoft will survive because they are oligarchs. OpenAI is not an equivalent to Microsoft (hence why they sold to Microsoft).
Google was not an internet stock in the same vein as others. Google is a search engine that hosts internet websites.
Amazon, had a material product. They sold books.
OpenAI (or any LLM) is a company that has yet to even produce the very technology that is driving investment in the first place, AGI.
Good sounding law …I guess. Not really sure what it will accomplish or
do in terms of promoting or restricting the tech development. As long as the 10 member advisory board doesn’t get paid by the state, I guess I’m “on board”
with this law. Feels more like a feel good law then anything else.
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So did many of the dot com bubble companies that crashed like Books-A-Million, Egghead Software, Pets.com.
However, Amazon’s stock droped 90% in two years because of it. https://www.eweek.com/cloud/eweek-at-30-how-amazon-survived-the-dot-com-crash-to-rule-the-cloud/
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My emphasis was that AI-focused companies (OpenAI, etc.) does not have a finished, material product.
ChatGPT is never going to be profitable (that is, unless they incorporate advertisements which will significantly drive down engagement)
It will never be profitable unless they monitize it. Genius take.
True in terms of an AGI, but OpenAI Group had 13 billion in revenue for 2025 for products. While still operating on a loss basis , they are saying 2029 as its break even year and that’s without AGI (I think).
They recently got $41 billion investment from SoftBank. Seeing reports too of $1 trillion IPO in 2026 is in the works. Thats big money; but imho it’s still a speculative play.