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  1. once I built a tower of GPUs
    now I rent it out as heating for a WeWork

    brother, can you spare a carbon credit? 🥲🌍 #AIWinter #DataCenterBallads

  2. What is old is new again. Forty years ago in the #ComputerChronicles, people were talking about disappointments with #AI. And of course, the result was an #AIwinter until the 2000s.

    youtu.be/VsE0BwQ3l8U?t=1492

  3. What is old is new again. Forty years ago in the #ComputerChronicles, people were talking about disappointments with #AI. And of course, the result was an #AIwinter until the 2000s. youtu.be/VsE0BwQ3l8U?...

    The Computer Chronicles - Inte...

  4. When will there be large protests against AI companies? Huge capital investment in AI is increasing energy use, causing pollution, taking away skilled labor, and causing shortages of chips.
    #artificialintelligence #artificialstupidity #aggregatedignorance #ai #aibubble #pollution #aihype #aiwinter #llms #chatgpt #openai #protestagainstai #protests #poorinvestments

  5. When will there be large protests against AI companies? Huge capital investment in AI is increasing energy use, causing pollution, taking away skilled labor, and causing shortages of chips.
    #ArtificialIntelligence #ArtificialStupidity #AggregatedIgnorance #AI #AIBubble #Pollution #AIHype #AIWinter #LLMs #ChatGPT #OpenAI #ProtestAgainstAI #Protests

  6. With all the hype surrounding large language models, I am really hoping for the imminent arrival of a long AI winter.
    #llms #chatgpt #aihype #aiwinter #ai #artificialintelligence #computerscience #researchfunding

  7. AI Boom: Why Did It Take Decades to Finally Arrive?

    The recent AI Boom seems sudden, but its foundation was built over decades. Discover the key factors that held it back.

    olamnews.com/technology/ai/281

  8. Great article about the history of past AI winters:

    "The most recent talk of a looming winter has been triggered by growing concerns among investors that AI technology may not live up to the hype surrounding it—and that the valuations of many AI-related companies are far too highl. In a worst case scenario, this AI winter could be accompanied by the popping of an AI-inflated stock market bubble, with reverberations across the entire economy. While there have been AI hype cycles before, they’ve never involved anything close to the multiple hundreds of billions of dollars that investors have sunk into the generative AI boom. And so if there is another AI winter, it could involve polar vortex levels of pain.

    The markets have been spooked recently by comments from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who told reporters he thought some venture-backed AI startups were grossly overvalued (although not OpenAI, of course, which is one of the most highly-valued venture-backed startups of all time). Hot on the heels of Altman’s remarks came a study from MIT that concluded that 95% of AI pilot projects fail.

    A look at past AI winters, and what caused them, may give us some indication of whether that chill in the air is just a passing breeze or the first hints of an impending Ice Age. Sometimes those AI winters have been brought on by academic research highlighting the limitations of particular AI techniques. Sometimes they have been caused by frustrations getting AI tech to work well in real world applications. Sometimes both factors have been at play. But what previous AI winters all had in common was disillusionment among those footing the bill after promising new advances failed to deliver on the ensuing hype."

    fortune.com/2025/09/03/what-pr

    #AI #GenerativeAI #AIBubble #AIWinter #AIHype

  9. "While a fear of missing out, or “FOMO” – as IBM suggests – is the main reason for the AI boom, more people can now see that the Emperor has no clothes. As I wrote in my column two weeks ago, businesses know prices will fall, and can choose to wait. Only fools will rush into AI now.

    The second reason why a correction is overdue is the fundamental assumption that huge capital investments are necessary to maintain progress. Billions are being spent on data centres and expensive graphics chips. But in reality, there is no competitive advantage to this, or in the jargon, there’s no “moat” for a business to defend. When Victorian railway companies like the LNER built lines and locomotives at great expense, they could control the trade conducted on them. Later, patents and trade secrets allowed pharmaceutical and software companies to justify huge R&D expenditures, although both had to grapple with piracy. But today every generative AI feature or technique is copied by competitors instantly, within days. Open source models are built specifically to be copied by other people. So a billion dollars of capital expenditure training an AI model suddenly looks like a terrible and stupid waste of capital. Meanwhile the Chinese are focusing on performance, and producing AI models that run well at a hundredth of the expense. We have yet to see this reality reflected in the equity market. Here in the West, we may have backed the wrong kind of AI.

    And OpenAI’s launch of GPT-5 put paid to the notion that if you spend lots more money, you get much better results."

    uk.news.yahoo.com/next-ai-wint

    #AI #GenerativeAI #AIBubble #AIWinter #AIHype #China #OpenSource

  10. When do you expect the next AI winter to arrive?

    #AI #AIwinter #hype

  11. 🚀🤖 Oh, the glory days of #Lisp at #JPL, where dollars grew on trees and AI Winters were just bedtime stories! 🎩🌨️ Our hero, armed with a keyboard and bias, bravely recounts tales of coding in the land of outdated tech, as if anyone still cares about Lisp's dusty adventures. 📜💾
    flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html #AIWinter #Nostalgia #CodingAdventure #OutdatedTech #HackerNews #ngated

  12. 🚀🤖 Oh, the glory days of #Lisp at #JPL, where dollars grew on trees and AI Winters were just bedtime stories! 🎩🌨️ Our hero, armed with a keyboard and bias, bravely recounts tales of coding in the land of outdated tech, as if anyone still cares about Lisp's dusty adventures. 📜💾
    flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html #AIWinter #Nostalgia #CodingAdventure #OutdatedTech #HackerNews #ngated

  13. 🚀🤖 Oh, the glory days of #Lisp at #JPL, where dollars grew on trees and AI Winters were just bedtime stories! 🎩🌨️ Our hero, armed with a keyboard and bias, bravely recounts tales of coding in the land of outdated tech, as if anyone still cares about Lisp's dusty adventures. 📜💾
    flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html #AIWinter #Nostalgia #CodingAdventure #OutdatedTech #HackerNews #ngated

  14. 🚀🤖 Oh, the glory days of #Lisp at #JPL, where dollars grew on trees and AI Winters were just bedtime stories! 🎩🌨️ Our hero, armed with a keyboard and bias, bravely recounts tales of coding in the land of outdated tech, as if anyone still cares about Lisp's dusty adventures. 📜💾
    flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html #AIWinter #Nostalgia #CodingAdventure #OutdatedTech #HackerNews #ngated

  15. @scalzi Apparently the “AI breakthrough” they have demonstrated is the ability to generate superior download statistics from the App Store. This makes a lot of sense to me. #aiwinter

  16. Kunstigintelligensvinter? Kanskje ikke akkurat i dag, men i løpet av det neste halvåret? Man kan alltids håpe.

    #AIWinter #KIVinter

  17. The difference between how good NotebookLM is and how terrible Gemini Pro sometimes can be, illustrates the importance of everything around models like Gemini,ChatGPT, Claude etc. Supporting algorithms, contextwindows, chain-of-tought, RAG, tuning, grounding, interface etcetera, are just as important for the perfomance of the actual application or service. Therefore the chance of real "AI winter" is small in my view, even if the models themselves don't improve that much
    #AI #AIwinter

  18. I just saw a grad school colleague (PhD 2006ish)

    …who has done _real_ NLP work at Microsoft for ~20 years, since before he defended

    …announce his layoff due to "changing business needs"

    #AIWinter is already here, as the LLMs suck the life out of my entire field

  19. According to this writer, we are currently witnessing the fifth hype cycle concerning AI:

    #AI #GenerativeAI #AIHype #AIWinter: “History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme. This hype cycle is unlike any that have come before in various ways. There is more money involved now. It’s much more commercial; I had to phrase things above in very general ways because many previous hype waves have been based on research funding, some really being exclusively a phenomenon at one department in DARPA, and not, like, the entire economy.

    I cannot tell you when the current mania will end and this bubble will burst. If I could, you’d be reading this in my $100,000 per month subscribers-only trading strategy newsletter and not a public blog. What I can tell you is that computers cannot think, and that the problems of the current instantation of the nebulously defined field of “AI” will not all be solved within “5 to 20 years”.”

    blog.glyph.im/2024/05/grand-un

  20. I'm predicting an #AI winter coming in one to two years.

    And with it, it will snow up the tech industry as a whole. ❄️

    #Prediction #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #AIWinter

  21. "I believe that artificial intelligence has three quarters to prove itself before the apocalypse comes, and when it does, it will be that much worse, savaging the revenues of the biggest companies in tech.", predicts Ed Zitron.

    wheresyoured.at/peakai/

    #AIWinter #GenAI #OpenAI

  22. “We’re not on the brink of major technological development here. We’re in the middle of some fiddling at the edges of what came before… Just like the algorithms, we’re stuck repeating the aesthetics…” —Caleb Gamman in “Algorithms”

    youtu.be/MravA_dgUkQ

    #AI #algorithms #algorithm #ArtificialIntelligence #perceptrons #NeuralNetworks #NeuralNetworks #AIWinter #Tesla

  23. “We’re not on the brink of major technological development here. We’re in the middle of some fiddling at the edges of what came before… Just like the algorithms, we’re stuck repeating the aesthetics…” —Caleb Gamman in “Algorithms”

    youtu.be/MravA_dgUkQ

    #AI #algorithms #algorithm #ArtificialIntelligence #perceptrons #NeuralNetworks #NeuralNetworks #AIWinter #Tesla

  24. “We’re not on the brink of major technological development here. We’re in the middle of some fiddling at the edges of what came before… Just like the algorithms, we’re stuck repeating the aesthetics…” —Caleb Gamman in “Algorithms”

    youtu.be/MravA_dgUkQ

    #AI #algorithms #algorithm #ArtificialIntelligence #perceptrons #NeuralNetworks #NeuralNetworks #AIWinter #Tesla

  25. “We’re not on the brink of major technological development here. We’re in the middle of some fiddling at the edges of what came before… Just like the algorithms, we’re stuck repeating the aesthetics…” —Caleb Gamman in “Algorithms”

    youtu.be/MravA_dgUkQ

    #AI #algorithms #algorithm #ArtificialIntelligence #perceptrons #NeuralNetworks #NeuralNetworks #AIWinter #Tesla

  26. “We’re not on the brink of major technological development here. We’re in the middle of some fiddling at the edges of what came before… Just like the algorithms, we’re stuck repeating the aesthetics…” —Caleb Gamman in “Algorithms”

    youtu.be/MravA_dgUkQ

    #AI #algorithms #algorithm #ArtificialIntelligence #perceptrons #NeuralNetworks #NeuralNetworks #AIWinter #Tesla