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My guess is they are using the Netflix playbook all over again.

Get you hooked to the extreme convenience, much like a drug addict, and then pump up the price or flood every prompt with ads.

That's my best case.

Worse case is, that alongside the rising adoption, they will start surreptitiously but effectively modifying general knowledge, thought and behaviour in ways the ~~worst~~ best Marketer would blush about.

If it's this useful, we're (and them) fucked too because the economy would collapse under falling aggregate demand due to falling wages and layoffs. The "people will find new jobs" won't save us from a shift this large without a depression. And all sorts of things happen during depressions.

Well nVidia just sells the hardware to the AI companies, so even if the bubble pops, they won't go bankrupt. They will stop making such obscene amounts of money, but they're one (also the largest) of the 3 major GPU vendors. Personal computing still would buy from them, as would non-AI datacenters. He wants to keep the bubble going for as long as possible to boost their profits for as long as he can, but as long as people need graphical rendering and parallel compute power, I don't think nVidia is going anywhere.

Think of them as the guy selling prospectors their tools. They hype everything up and jack up their prices for picks and shovels. When the prospectors don't find any gold to make their investment back, the shovel guy just goes back to selling shovels at normal rates and prices. Sure, he's not making as much profit, but he's still solidly in business.

Companies involved in large infrastructure build-outs are notoriously safe investments and never, ever, EVER end up with mountains of unservicable debt and a huge surplus of worthless, underutilized infrastructure that doesn't fulfill any of its promises that inevitably gets sold off for fractions of a penny on the dollar. Except literally almost every fucking large infrastructure build-out anywhere in the world in all of human history.

It doesn't matter what infrastructure or investments you look at: highways, train tracks, communications, real estate, skyscrapers, power generation, power transmission, oil extraction there are countless examples of greed-blinded companies JUST LIKE HIS doing EXACTLY THE SAME THING and eventually getting absolutely destroyed over it. The larger the infrastructure investment is, the worse it gets. There are only a handful of well-known success stories (which are well known because they are notable, not because they are common), and enough failures to pave a road to the moon and back.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, and I'm pretty sure Jensen Huang was too busy shopping for new leather jackets during history class to be paying any attention.

Don't get me wrong, I totally agree These motherfuckers would scorch our planet for profit but this... feels different.

Is not a secret a lot of the most influential Billionaires are transhumanists (Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, etc).

But hey, it might as well be a grift to get on board other unsuspecting rich fucks...

Either way, we should put these power hoarding dragons to sleep, soon!

That's a tech CEO thing - Jobs' turtlenecks, Gates' blue oxford shirts, etc. You wouldn't think twice about a Wall Street guy in a suit, but that's just a daily uniform.

Pretty sure Elon's completely given that game away.

To be fair, I've seen him in another stupider leather jacket that was reptile textured.

Maybe you'd call that a black hole instead of bubble

Every conman insists his bullshit is real. Honest!

The more I learned about packet tracking and air gapped attacks makes me want to just uncle Ted the fuck out, minus the violence.

Even if you wanted to you can't use AI the way these guys want, because it doesn't work.

He just buys new ones every three days

It's just one letter away from Davros. They're not fooling me.