I (and many others) are convinced that the #AI hype bubble is gonna burst at some point, but I haven't seen many talk about what actually happens when it does?

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I (and many others) are convinced that the #AI hype bubble is gonna burst at some point, but I haven't seen many talk about what actually happens when it does?

So, here's my prediction for just that.

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The AI bubble is likely to pop, because the amount of investment in the technology in no way correlates with its severe lack of profit.

In this piece, I'm interested in thinking about what the world will look like when that happens.

Will AI go away completely?
What happens to the world economy? What will our information ecosystems look?

All of these are quite impossible to predict, but let's try anyway.