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bucolic_frolic

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1. AI is facing hurdles
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 07:51 AM
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You tube skepticism, some from respected analysts, is beginning. Among the ideas - only one dominant player will survive and it will be a Chinese company (because of lower costs), that data centers are languishing in the construction phase with chips sitting idle as they become obsolete very fast, that there will be insufficient resources (water, electric) to make them function, public resistance, mass unemployment, the base monetary model simply will not support AI in a profitable sense, and the debt incurred from trying to build out an untested technology.

Remember, everyone will live on the moon. People can eat junk food, do no exercise, and be thin.

Think of previous technologies that failed to take hold.

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