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I look forward to the day where executive overpromises and engineering underdeliveries bring about another AI winter so the useful techniques can continue without the stench of the "AI" association and so the grifters go bankrupt.

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The implosion of this AI bubble is going to have a stupendous blast radius. It’s never been harder to distinguish AI from “things people do with computers” more generally. The whole industry is implicated, complicit, and likely to suffer when AI winter arrives. Dotcom bust didn’t just hit people who were working for pets.com.

Just like the internet was a fad, right?

More like the dot-com bubble

Internet only became a fad once it was already large and had tens of millions of users.

I remember the pre-Web days of Usenet and BBS and no one thought those were trendy.

AI is far more akin to crypto.

Lots of people talk about crypto yet almost no one uses it.

Pretty much everyone I know uses AI for something.

That might be a perspective thing. I can think of three people in my life who have used AI at any point, and two of the three used it for diffusion models right when Stable Diffusion was first released.

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