this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2026
358 points (98.6% liked)
Technology
81612 readers
4957 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Except in the show, AI actually solved problems, instead of causing them.
Did you really watch it? It most certainly caused problems in the show as well.
Eventually.
But the priblems were more along the lines "oh no, it's so powetful, it's becoming god".
It's not the AI that causes problems. It's the CEOs that INSIST this bullshit needs to not only be part of our lives, but also affect our lives.
We can't buy ram at reasonable prices. I hear storage (hard drives, and solid state drives) are also going to go back to being expensive.
GPUs as well.
This is just like a few years ago when all the crypto bros decided they needed all the GPUs. So prices went from $100 or so, to $700. I've heard of some high end GPUs at tge peak of it going for 3k.
Except this time, when the fad ends, I heard it's going to collapse the entire US economy.
We're being forced to prop up a technology that does not work in the ways they want it to, and never will. It can't. Thats not something a computer can ever do.
It's like saying a plane can fly at 550mph, and a pigeon can also fly. Therefore we're forcing the entire united states economy to be dependant on pigeons flying from New York to Los Angelas in 5 hours.
It can't do that.
So when it fails, it basically creates a global depression.
That's what we're doing here. The CEOs are at fault. The AI itself will only do what you tell it to do.
I'm referencing events in the show.