General Discussion

There is certainly a market bubble occurring with these AI companies and trendy stocks without enough meat undergirding them.

But that is a separate consideration from the technology itself which is already integrated across a much vaster range of products and services than is perceivable at surface level.

You're already using AI, whether you know it or not. Whether you like it or not.

Not just customer service. Communications. Algorithms. The advertising DU uses to fund itself? It has AI in how that works now. Pharmacological and physiological research. I'm in nursing school and being trained with AI. Future medical professionals will use it - and they will know how to use it. Astronomers are using AI to analyze vast quantities of data.

Every internet search you make, every consumer transaction that isn't at a brick and mortar store using paper inventories - and even then AI is in the supply chain.

AI is getting so good, it's very difficult to detect on the Internet. I've seen videos I don't even question that turn out to be AI. And the easier and more accessible it is, the more people on social media, in politics, and in advertising will use it. Hollywood's ship has sailed no matter how many people protest.

Yes, it will have an insane environmental impact. No, it's not perfect. Nothing is. The Internet was a 14.4k geocities shitshow until it wasn't.

In 10 years, 20 years? People won't even give a thought to just how much is done with it. There will be articles, complaining, limp protests that go nowhere. Such is progress.

But the idea it's a flash in the pan trend that will somehow go away is not a forecast - it's a wishcast.

It's already here, man. That fleet of ships left dock ages ago.