Column: The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble
www.latimes.com
Shares in AI companies have powered a huge runup in the stock market this year, but users are beginning to question whether the craze will fall flat.
  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    85·
    2 months ago

    Shed a tear, if you wish, for Nvidia founder and Chief Executive Jenson Huang, whose fortune (on paper) fell by almost $10 billion that day.

    Thanks, but I think I’ll pass.

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      41·
      2 months ago

      I’m sure he won’t mind. Worrying about that doesn’t sound like working.

      I work from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed. I work seven days a week. When I’m not working, I’m thinking about working, and when I’m working, I’m working. I sit through movies, but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about work.

      - Huang on his 14 hour workdays

      It is one way to live.

      • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.netEnglish
        44·
        2 months ago

        That sounds like mental illness.

        ETA: Replace “work” in that quote with practically any other activity/subject, whether outlandish or banal.

        I sit through movies but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about baking cakes.

        I sit through movies but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about traffic patterns.

        I sit through movies but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about cannibalism.

        I sit through movies but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about shitposting.

        Obsessed with something? At best, you’re “quirky” (depending on what you’re obsessed with). Unless it’s money. Being obsessed with that is somehow virtuous.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      He knows what this hype is, so I don’t think he’d be upset. Still filthy rich when the bubble bursts, and that won’t be soon.