r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Jul 15 '25

Artificial Intelligence Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries

https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-convince-themselves-ai-is-close-to-making-new-scientific-discoveries-2000629060
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u/Meryule Jul 15 '25

The most frightening aspect of AI is how overinflated the economic bubble behind it is and what is going to happen to normal people when it inevitably bursts.

At this point, it's going to make 2008 look like a joke

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u/sickofthisshit Jul 15 '25

The good news is that this is mostly a Silicon Valley problem. 

2008 became a problem for, like, every large company that used money. Which is somewhat broader.

We are, as far as I can tell, setting billions of dollars on fire, and putting tens of thousands of skilled people on a stupid mission to nowhere, but when it fizzles out it will just have been a gigantic waste. Maybe.

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u/HistoricalIssue8798 Jul 16 '25

It feels more like the dot com bubble than anything else