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The thing is that I do not see AI "failing". Its current state is already goood enough to take many people's job, let us not kid ourselves. And also, even if the current iteration of AI "fails", there is always the argument that "we are just around the corner to AGI, wait for the new AI version!".
I honestly don't see AI going away, sadly. I fucking hate it. We built such a shitty fucking society. We could all have beautiful, chill lives, but nop. We suck.
While the technology likely won't go away, some of the companies behind the AI push take huge losses and may collapse. OpenAI, Oracle, Microsoft and the bunch are spending insane amounts of money on datacenter buildout that may never return a profit.
Most AI subscriptions for instance are priced under cost to lock users in. However, unlike traditional services, it's trivial for a user to migrate to a competitor or (eventually) run a local model. Currently that market doesn't return a profit and it's questionable if it ever will
Increasingly, this looks like a death spiral of tech giants where nobody can admit to the sunk cost fallacy. Unfortunately these companies are in everybody's investment or retirement funds, so when they crash the economy will crash with it. I think that would be the "AI failing". Not the technical aspect, but rather the economical aspect.