[afavour]

> Depending on your POV OpenAI and the surrounding AI hype machine is at the extremes either the dawn of a new era

Eh, in a way they're not mutually exclusive. Look back at the dot com crash: it was all about things like online shopping, which we absolutely take for granted and use every day in 2025. Same for the video game crash in the 80s. They are both an overhyped bubble and and the dawn of a new era.

[Spooky23]

Exactly. I think the difference is that we've developed a cadre of people are think 24x7 about capturing value in a way that makes dotcom era moguls look naive.

AI is a powerful and compelling technology, full stop. The sausage making process where the entire financial economy is pivoting around it is a different matter, and can only end in disaster.