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I don't think so.
Everything else in thr economy will run and cheap data centres will be used eventually. We use more and more every year the bubble won't stop thr growth
Not in the long run, but we can expect a period of substantial economic downturn, even more than we are experiencing today. And the economy is highly vulnerable due to concentration of wealth, multiple wars across the globe with serious ramifications for the countries who are not at war and an ever increasing dependency on AI.
Economic downturn from oil yes.
But if chatgpt stopped existing now do you think that was cause a recession? I don't see it. Its hype but the rest of the economy moves forward.
The oil through, that's another factor all together. We are fucked!
It’s not as much about the usefulness of LLM’s (although a lot of companies are more dependent on it every day), but about the not-as-useful as we expected part. Investments in LLMs have gone through the roof. When there are huge investments that do not match the usefulness of a product there is a bubble that bursts. For example tulip bulbs aren’t particularly useful either, but on a much smaller scale the insane investments did cost a bunch of people a lot of money. Another example is the dot com bubble of the late 1990’s.
So it’s not about ChatGPT ceasing to exist, it’s about overvalued stocks.
The oil comes on top of that and is what I meant when I said that it would be worse than today, since we are already starting to feel the effects of the oil crisis.
The oil crisis makes us that much more vulnerable to a market crash and global recession when the bubble bursts.
Yes!
And I always add that the financial issue with dependency on AI is that there's no way to know today what the final capacity will be after the excitement settles down.
I see plenty of fear of missing out, but less fear of becoming dependant on a suddenly scarce resource. I think the second risk is higher (based on past technology experiences).