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Every time I see an article like this a quote comes to mind:

"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." -- John Maynard Keynes

Predicting when a bubble is going to burst is close to impossible.

The Fed is giving indications that rates will be cut. The bubble will not be bursting yet if that happens

If NVIDIA crashes, I can easily see the gov saving it in some way (either massively pumping liquidity or bailing it out). It’s too critical to the US at this point

I think the biggest sign of a potential crash is that Meta has frozen AI hiring. Such a quick reversal from just a few months ago.
The article claims that:

a) AI is a bubble

b) It's about to burst

This is based on a study that "just 5pc of integrated AI pilots are extracting millions in value, while the vast majority remain stuck with no measurable P&L [profit and loss] impact".

I think the conclusions (while possibly true) are not supported here. By comparison, in the stock market in general, just a handful of stocks provide most of the returns over the past few decades. This does not mean the stock market is a bubble or about to burst.

cool time to buy some burst protectors
Can't wait for the pop to take out all the grifters and leave us to do the actual work in peace with reasonably priced GPUs.
Given how much capital has already been committed to infrastructure development I find it very unlikely that even a Black Monday style market correction will do much to alter the medium and long term outlook for ai development and investment.

Too many people talk about a bubble almost wish-casting that such a thing will make this all go away. It’s probably safest to assume your political enemies won’t be hoisted on their own petard anytime soon.

If you get your information from a sad rag like the Telegraph, then you deserve what you receive. :)
A good sign the bubble is not actually bursting: a mainstream news publication predicting it. [1]

It's still 1994. We won't be near the top until the Telegraph publishes an article overly exuberant about AI and saying AGI is here.

If every idiot commenting on Reddit, HN, X, and mainstream news publications is pessimistic and constantly shouting "bubble!," then definitionally, we have not reached irrational exuberance and we're not even remotely near the top.

[1] https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/566807/theinternetbah3.webp (1995)

> “When will the internet bubble burst?” the cover story of Barron’s asked on March 20 2000. “That unpleasant popping sound is likely to be heard before the end of this year.”

Again—the internet was a bubble, and yet it eventually far surpassed even the frothiest expectations.

If you're investing for the short-term, do what you gotta do. The AI bubble will burst and lots of superficial companies will be washed away. But we're just getting started. This next wave will make a new round of companies like Netflix, Amazon, Apple, etc.

The funny thing about bubbles is that they are impossible to predict. My sense is that they always go on longer than is at all rational. (Assuming this is a bubble, who knows.)

I’m still waiting for the crypto “bubble” to burst. Seems like we are years overdue ;)

Really dislike the "AI bubble" term conceptually. The mostly probable outcome here (imo) is absolute bloodbath among the startups that are essentially wrappers while the core tech keeps going without missing a beat and does eventually deliver.
Bubbles burst when the media and public are finally bought in that they burst. This article is a good sign we aren’t there yet.
It'll burst in the same way crypto burst. The NFTs and the shitcoins and the grifters and the bandwagon hoppers all got washed out, but Bitcoin is still hitting record highs today.

All the smaller AI companies will have to quickly figure out a way to make a profit, or die.

The behemoths and the ones backed by behemoths (Google, Microsoft/OpenAI, Meta, Amazon/Anthropic) will take a good hit but will power through.

We’re on our way down to the through of disillusionment. See you on the other side.
What portion of AI spend is from non-hyperscalers? That feels like the most irrational part of this hype.
NVidia’s PE is below 60 and they have 100% year over year revenue growth. A bubble is typically based on future earnings potential Nvidia is a money printing growth creating machine.
All you have to do for next 3 years is just put blinkers on and remain laser focussed. Ignore everything they throw at you and remain committed in this once in a life opportunity to be part of the movement that will change the world.
The fact that we’re talking about warning signs the bubble is about to burst indicates the bubble is not about to burst lol.
Even if AGI never happens, the existing models are already incredibly useful. I’ve switched to OpenAI Plus plan and almost never use Google search anymore. I pay $10/mo for GitHub Copilot for coding. So search and coding use cases are already seeing big improvements. But this same thing needs to happen to pretty much every product. So I think in the worst case they can just divert all of the training resources to just inference and be just fine. Sure the insane valuation multiples will drop if that happens and they will be valued as any other SaaS business.
> I’ve switched to OpenAI Plus plan and almost never use Google search anymore

A paid product is better than a free one! Who knew it could be!

As it turns out, the magic sauce that makes everything taste better is just ketchup.

It's good (maybe even indispensable) for some things. Please don't go "ketchup native" on my ice cream.