The AI bubble will pop the same way the dotcom bubble popped. A lot of money lost and the hype will die down, but the technology will remain and reach a homeostasis at the level where it’s actually a helpful tool.
When the dotcom bubble popped the internet didn’t disappear, it just became what it was supposed to be. When the AI bubble pops the technology will still be there for use cases where it’s actually appropriate and useful.
Yeah. I get it. I don’t have any spare DDR5 SODIMMS or Samsung EVO m.2s laying around.
The point is that I won’t be upgrading anything anytime soon, and probably a lot of other people are in the same boat. I would love a Framework 16.
Unless you’re in the top right branch of our current K shaped economy, most people won’t be buying a Framework or a Steam Machine or upgrading their gaming rig right now.
I want one real, real bad. But buying anything with RAM and SSDs in it right now is off the table.
I also want a Steam Machine and an AM5 based desktop. Also not gonna happen.
That was always my argument back in the day.
Technically when you bought any music wether it be 8-track, LP, cassette, or CD, you were purchasing a single-user license for the music and the media was just how the record companies delivered it to you. That’s why Napster and all the piracy that followed it was/is illegal, because you don’t own a license when you copy the digital file.
HOWEVER… Over the many decades I’ve been alive I’ve scratched, twisted, demagnetized, or just plain old lost hundreds of LPs, cassettes, and CDs. Do you think if I requested a new copy of the music that the record companies would send me a replacement?
No, they would not. So I obtained digital replacements by…other means.
Vinyl, without a doubt. Because it’s analog.
CD’s are lossless 16-bit/44.1 kHz PCM digital audio. You can already get that in file form. Why would you want digital audio that’s stored on media that degrades? It doesn’t sound any different than the digital file…it’s quite literally (not figuratively literally but literally literally) the exact same data.
Yeah I hate fake nerds on TV. Big Bang Theory being the absolute worst.
Obligatory Portlandia Nerd PSA (invidious link)
I grew up with actual nerds in the 89s and 90s. No one was like Big Bang Theory. We were not cool.
I’m going have to agree with this.
There are plenty of trash-ass wrestlers to equate this trash-ass UFC fighter to. Macho Man Randy Savage is not one of them.
I’m 50 years old.
Most of my life alcohol has just been there and had never been a problem for me. I just drank alcohol when appropriate. As I got older and had kids and a house and responsibilities, having a cocktail in the evening was a nice treat that I felt like I deserved. Still no problem. To me I had a normal relationship with alcohol.
Then I started on a GLP-1 med a few years ago. And I stopped wanting alcohol. Was I an alcoholic all that time? I really don’t know. I definitely looked forward to that evening cocktail…was I addicted to drinking alcohol? I just didn’t see it that way and assumed I had complete control. But now I question it.
Man I’d love to have an entire drawer of different kimchis in my fridge.
Do young people make their own kimchi and store it in the drawer, or do most go buy it premade and stock the drawer?
We have some really good stores now in my part of the southeastern US where I can get pretty much any kimchi imaginable, which means I have stacks of round plastic containers in my fridge.
I learned about Korean kimchi in my teens. It was one of those things that white American people would talk about while eating mashed potatoes.
Apparently Korean people would bury cabbage in their backyard and then leave it there for a month and then dig it up and eat it!
Now I have kimchi 2-3 times a week. My favorite weekend breakfast is over-easy eggs with jasmine rice and kimchi, with a little soy sauce, sesame oil, and sriracha.
Oh Snap! Y’all got slammed, son!
I’m not paying $640k for that thing for other reasons. What the hell was Ferrari thinking? Are they trying to make the ugliest Ferrari ever so they can say “see, nobody wants and EV”?
Is that some kind of gotcha or something?
The average car buyer does not want to buy an expensive EV just to have an EV and will buy a $40k Toyota Sienna before they buy a $60k VW ID.Buzz.
Pretty easy to grasp…It’s not rocket surgery. Make affordable EVs and not upmarket EVs and people will buy them. China figured that out.
Make it affordable and I’ll buy one tomorrow.
Let’s talk VW specific. I would absolutely love an ID.Buzz. But you made the fucking thing SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.
This confirms that they know. They know where the timeline split.
That’s the rub. They don’t even say “we are cutting workforce to invest in AI”, they say “we are cutting workforce because we’ve already replaced people with AI”, which they have not. They’re just such hype driven buffoons that they actually believe that LLMs are going to easily replace the people they just cut in their hubris.
Saying they’ve cut people to invest in AI is actually a little more honest because it admits that they haven’t actually already succeeded.
What of you’re in IT and are ready to leave but don’t like gardening or woodworking?
I still like electricity. Maybe I can be a part time electrician.
Exactly. The AI bubble popping will not “un-invent” AI technology. The technology exists and can be a useful tool for the right use cases, just like the internet still existed after the dotcom bubble popped.
LLMs will still exist and will still be trained and used. What won’t exist are AI only companies.