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I think everyone banking on the AI bubble bursting and that being the end of AI slop are going to be very, very, disappointed with what is about to happen.
AI is going to keep getting better at things. The existence of AI slop or trash vibe coding has no bearing on future capabilities of these models.
The AI "bubble" is less of a bubble and more of a ball and cup game exchanging real assets. So while the redundancy in stock market valuations is fluff... the data centers, energy production, and computer chips, and robots are not. Those things will still exist after any bubble bursts.
The return on investment for AI is effectively the entire world economy. Their goal with AI is to entirely eliminate the need to pay human labourers. Whoever owns that AI will defacto become the most profitable & powerful entity in the fucking world.
AI will transform warfare and violence on levels on comparable with the invention of projectile weapons and gunpowder. When the AI bubble bursts the Military-Industrial-Complex will simply buy the dip.
I really don't like AI... but we can't afford to turn our brains off at "AI Slop" and not think realistically (or at least pessimistically) about what's coming next.
Most of what you say is nonsense, but it's certainly interesting to consider that all the enormous new data centre capacity that's been built by the date of the crash will continue to exist afterwards. I wonder what we'll do with it all.
Refute it then. Cuz right now you're just displaying the brain off behaviour I was describing.
"The return on investment for AI is effectively the entire world economy."
Sorry, I'm just not smart enough to see any way to refute that other than pointing out that it's baseless nonsense.
So you're not concerned about general purpose humanoid robots being used to replace human workforces entirely?
Why stop at work? What if they completely replace humans? I mean why wouldn't they, in the long run? Our doom is inevitable.