Methinks the bubble is popping.

starkrg@myside-yourside.net

@Lydie The quicker the better.

Joe (TBA)

@Lydie How many data centers and 10s of billions of dollars will lay waste with AI's demise?

Joe (TBA)

@Lydie For now. But what will fund the next round? I don't see the money to fund such vast operations in the long-term. Certainly many will be shut down.

Joe (TBA)

@Lydie I'm more jaded, this feels like the dot com bubble. But you are right there were some winners.

Allan Chow

@RegGuy @Lydie it's ok the crypto miners will take them at a steal

Carina C. Zona

@Lydie that is the bubble's hiss as it slowly releases a bit of putrid air. When it pops, you will not be in doubt. That's the awful thing about it. The explosive collapse. "Pop" undersells how impactful it is.

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@grumpasaurus @RegGuy Scary thought. The AI data centers becoming bitcoin miners

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@cczona A bubble of nuclear proportions

Carina C. Zona

@Lydie yeah. Mushroom cloud is a fair analogy. Raining down radioactivity, ensuring that devastation spreads far beyond the initial blast zone.

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@cczona AI induced economic nuclear winter coming soon to a country near you

rickf

@Lydie Bur Oracle just said they're raising another 50b for data centers! That's unpossible, the bubble is a hoax! Fake! /sarc

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@rickf People who give them that money deserve to lose it

Nazo

@Lydie I really honestly feel like it's all coming to a head now and I do legitimately believe the bubble is going to pop at last this year. A lot of people don't believe me and hey, it's more gut feeling than being some sort of financial expert, but I honestly think the illusions the con perpetuated are starting to fade and even the dumbest execs are starting to finally figure out that the snake oil isn't quite as magical as was promised.

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@nazokiyoubinbou The fact that so many investors were duped by Scam Altman is amazing. He sold the idea of LLMs leading to AGI and they took it hook, line AND sinker. lmfao

Nazo

@Lydie Well, I've noticed a really interesting trend. Firstly, CEOs and others placed in charge of tech companies have zero tech capabilities. Most of them probably have to call someone in the room to help them turn their PC on. None of them knows a single thing about how LLMs work and not one single one of them will just admit this and ask an expert.

So when they hear all the hype and con work making it sound like it does all the stuff it doesn't do and then they see it pretending to do the stuff it doesn't do, they fall for it. It doesn't help that LLMs are so good at being made to pretend this stuff.

You'd think big businesses would actually consult with experts — maybe even keep some on the payroll — but all those at the top are just faking it all the way. It's amazing...

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@nazokiyoubinbou If there is one role to replace with AI...it's CEO

Nazo

@Lydie This is literally true. A LLM could actually do what CEOs do just as well as they do it — probably even better. Just feed in a bit of info about markets or whatever is applicable into context and ask it for a decision and it will produce a decision that is at least as valid as whatever crap a CEO will, probably better. Which is less saying LLMs are that good and more saying CEOs are that bad.

Honestly I feel like it's more a proof that the CEO position just needs to not even exist.

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@nazokiyoubinbou CEOs are good for two things. Getting rich off others' backs, and taking blame when shit hits the fan. The latter one would be hard to blame on a LLM

Nazo

@Lydie I think LLMs actually would be even better than CEOs at "taking the blame" actually... Only the good CEOs take blame. The bad ones find a way to make it someone else's fault and people other than the CEO (who instead gets a raise) get fired instead, just compounding the problem...

ChemicalTribe

@Lydie
Still, fuck micron