Is AI a bubble? Probably. Does that make it meaningless? Not at all. Carlota Perez’s Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages (2003) is strikingly prescient--and worth revisiting [thread]
Perez goes back to the technology of canals:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_Revolutions_and_...
People getting excited for something (perceived as) new is part of the human character.