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[-] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 118 points 2 months ago

It’s because they keep securing their loans with eachother’s loans, it’s all negative numbers though

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 months ago

I hope not, that's basically what 2008 was. We could at least get a new reason.

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 2 months ago

Capitalism doesn't breed enough innovation for new reasons. That's why they need AI, to come up with new bullshit.

[-] illi@piefed.social 13 points 2 months ago

The way AI works, wouldn't they just get the old bullshit, but reworded each time? With a side of hallucinations ofc

[-] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

🌍🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 18 points 2 months ago

Sort of, except this time instead of it being millions of homes about to be foreclosed on its like 10 multibillion dollar companies, so the real problem is who is positioned to buy those companies when their share price crashes and they need to be sold for peanu.. fuck it's Trump isn't it? In 2 months we'll be using MicroTrump Werd to write reports and Tesla Xsell to build spreadsheets, but only when we can navigate our way through a minefield of vibecoded slop and ads for ICE.

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 months ago

You jest but USGov already owns 10% of Intel, the seal's been cracked, and it'd be a suitably fascist move.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Considering that both Intel and AMD originally grew up on government contracts, It's a wonder that the government doesn't own 49% of each.

[-] alk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

Damn if only there were some sort of alternative not owned by anyone and built by the community. If I'm making impossible wishes I'd also want it to be free to use. Maybe even open source.

Nah that would never work. Who would put in that kind of effort for free? Silly idea.

[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago

Sadly my company has complete say over the platforms I use when at work. Given their scramble to adopt copilot with little or no obvious benefits and unknown depth of security flaws, I don't hold much hope that they will pivot to an entire new platform suite on Microsoft's collapse ..

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[-] Gork@sopuli.xyz 50 points 2 months ago

You have unleashed the cursed gif upon us

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[-] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 48 points 2 months ago

Was in a company wide meeting yesterday. The cto was talking about OpenAI being too big to fail.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 26 points 2 months ago

I have a take on that. I'm going with hank green on this one. https://youtu.be/jOR4wuiPeEQ

The entire US economy is being held up by the ultra-wealthy right now. We should be in a recession, but they're pushing all the right buttons in all the right places to keep stocks where they need to be to keep running.

The AI bubble isn't blindly bobbing around on the top waiting to pop, it's orchestrated. Yes, it's a bubble. Yes the stated value there isn't anywhere near real. But it's not going to pop until they let it. Investors are going to stay with it as long as they're not scared of it going away and the ultra rich are using it as a vehicle to maintain wealth and unless they somehow screw up, it's not going anywhere until they decide to do something different.

OpenAI isn't too big to fail, but the Industry as a whole is too well-funded and tightly controlled to let it fail, for now.

[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 8 points 2 months ago

Stupid question, but since the world is currently falling over itself to make new business connections/alliances and is moving away from investing in the US economy because the clown president likes to threaten his allies, how long will the US economy last as the world slowly abandons America? Because while the movement may appear slow right now, I am actually experiencing this extreme change in the world order to be happening super fast. The effects may not be felt over night and maybe not even in ten years, but what trump has accomplished in one year, will most likely have a very negative impact on the US economy for decades and decades to come. Because we ain't fucking coming back. That's for sure.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

Not a stupid question at all, but so far in the weeds of speculation that we couldn't get a straight answer out of it with a 24 pack of beer, a d100, and a really good DM. But let's ponder.

The nature of international trade and finance is screwy AF. It's like finance for the rich, where the only money that exists is what people owe to you and what you owe to people. Noting ever changes hands, not to say that it would soften the blows but it does make the effects move more slowly than one might want.

If it were just the international fall of Apple, Microsoft, and Google, along with the standard bits and bobbles of alcohol, and whatever 100 other odd consumer products we actually still manage to produce in the states, I don't think that'll hurt us as much as whatever eventually happens to with AI. A single day of military production probably outstrips most of that. While it's possible that other warmachines can ramp up to quell the hunger of everyone for world destruction and weapons for self-preservation, I suspect once the current series of aggressions, fiasco,s and administration disappear, the US war machine will still find plenty of buyers, though the menu will likely change as we'll no longer seen as a reliable ally. Food and Oil/industrial exports will likely fluctuate, at most. I suspect they'll be forced to sell at a discount. If tourism doesn't recover, that'll beat the F out of a lot of places. We might see Vegas go fallout style.

I'd love to see European alternatives for Apple, Microsoft, and Google. I'd import that in a hot second.

Honestly, If the world really wanted to see the US burn, they could just stop trade altogether. The time to restructure food, coal and oil would be enough to starve out a lot of the population, even if we're relatively close to self sustaining, none of those channels are setup.

Imaine the calls for blood when you can't get produce out of season and avocados become $15 each.

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[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

2008 called. They want their huge bailouts back.

[-] laranis@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 months ago

The big guys will be fine. Your 401(k)? Fucked.

[-] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

OpenAI is small fry compared to the other AI players. They are the least likely to get a bailout.

This is actually a moment where "Thanks Obama" applies, what a precedence to set... Should have given the relief on the demand-side, not the fucking banks.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago

The tech bros have been disastrously wrong about the future of technology twice since Moore's Law broke and the endless treadmill of computer upgrades stopped: about crypto and about the metaverse. They're desperate to not be wrong again, and they think that by spending enough money they can generate a reality distortion field that actually makes overhyped AI financially feasible. So they're going to keep pumping the money in as long as they've got it. But even their wallets are finite.

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As someone who has regularly used virtual worlds for 20 years, the whole Metaverse thing was so hilarious.

Like, Facebook did not invent 3D online worlds, there are 3D online worlds older than Facebook.

"But wait, metaverse is not just 3D Virtual Worlds."

Which inecitably leads to "ok, so its just "The Internet".

As for the "Constantly being wrong." At somepoint, these people forgot that "having an idea" does not mean "Having a useful idea." You hear arguments about all these flash in the pan bull shit concepts like "People said the same thing about the internet or the iPhone." Yeah, and they said the same thing about a dozen other new idea that time forgot for every Internet or every iPhone idea that took off. Not every idea is "the next big thing". Statisrically, most ideas are "Not ever a thing."

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[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 35 points 2 months ago

https://youtu.be/HAkCypsQIQk this video has the ending if anyone is cursed by this gif

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 13 points 2 months ago

If anyone edging from the gif wants to finish here is the time stamp: https://youtu.be/HAkCypsQIQk?t=246

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[-] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 2 months ago

What was it, Sam Altman can stay irrational longer than you can last between klarna payments?

[-] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 30 points 2 months ago

I fear it never will, because I suspect whoever is pushing for all of this dissident tracking on the Internet is propping it up with dark money.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 27 points 2 months ago

The people in charge of these companies already have all the money

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

The US can always print more money.

[-] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We are 20 years away from Fusion Reactors

– Scientists 60 years ago.

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"We are 20 years away from Fusion if we get X amount of money"
– Scientists right before recieving less than 1% of X amount of money.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 8 points 2 months ago

If we spent as much on fusion research as we do on killing each other we'd have cold fusion in under a year.

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[-] Azrael@reddthat.com 7 points 2 months ago

I'm no scientist, but i'm pretty sure there's a giant fusion reactor in the sky. I think it's called The Sun or something like that.

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 months ago

Also known as a deadly laser

[-] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

This annoyingly bright object in the sky is a giant fusion reaction, but not a fusion reactor

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[-] Korne127@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

Edging me fr fr

[-] itkovian@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

AI has the momentum only from investors and banks. But unfortunately, the paying customers are few and far between. Also, don't forget that these companies are losing money even on the paying customers. There doesn't seem to be any path to profitability for these companies. So, no wonder everyone is saying it's a bubble.

[-] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 7 points 2 months ago

I thought it was also considered a bubble because so much money has been invested in all those projects now that couldn't possibly return any revenue in 100 years or so.

[-] itkovian@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
[-] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago

It's even worse than that, because the more users they have the more expensive the tools are to run. It's the opposite of how economy of scale is supposed to work. I forget the exact numbers but apparently for every dollar they make they lose 2 or 3x that.

Every new iteration of their models is also exponentially more expensive to run. They desperately need the output to improve because of how inconsistent it is, but doing that only increases the money hemorrhage.

There's basically no way out from what I've been reading about it.

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago

I use AI some, but if it vanished, it woukd not change anything and I would just go back to my okd ways.

Also, my two cents, the biggest hinderance is how prudish they are, because they are disgustingly prudish. How many but tech pushes worked because of porn? Most of these mainstream AIs just shit the bed at the most PG tier conversations or actions. Basically, the current push by the hugely conservative nanny state is clashing with these people's desire to push this stuff into the Mainstream.

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Still waiting for that crypto pop. It seems less relevant nowadays, but judging by Bitcoin's current price, it hasn't quite popped.

Sure hope my GPU is built to last.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's an ongoing scam for the ultra wealthy and Tech Bro influencer con artists.

That's not an exaggeration. That's what it is.

Hence, it will keep going as long as it keeps getting boosted across media.

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[-] scytale@piefed.zip 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

More like, the AGI that those CEOs are saying will solve all the world’s problems as long as we keep giving them billions of dollars and more data centers.

[-] Feyd@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago

Right? How can everyone not see it? Didn't they hear Dario say everyone will be replaced in 6 months for the 20th time since 2022?

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Dario

Which Nintendo character is this

[-] frank@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

He's Wario's dumber and less put together cousin

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago

The sad thing is that when it bursts it won't do it in a hilarious "billionaires all get shafted" way like it didn't any of the previous times. It's far more likely to take the form of the most powerful AIs suddenly only being accessible to the wealthy.

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[-] mech@feddit.org 9 points 2 months ago

The lead-up is a bit long, yeah.
But the crash at the end is worth the wait.

[-] sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

Lemmy users waiting for AI to stop working because it'll start training on AI generated content

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

This would have been the time to use the version with an actual ending.

[-] YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah! Trump is fucked this time!

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