In Reply to: On the other hand, perhaps AI won’t happen at all. posted by Gainsborough on October 22, 2026 at 00:01:34
In the category of two things can be true,
1) it’s quite likely that the horizon for AI/Datacenters producing a reasonable return vis a vis the (leveraged?) money that has been invested is wayyyyyyy too far away.
2) AI is still an incredibly risky technology, that can cause catastrophic harm in ways we can’t anticipate quickly enough.
The Atlantic has an article about the php vulnerability that says the apocalypse may be upon us. Clickbait? Maybe. Hype produced by the data industry to draw more investment? That’s an oft used trope that I don’t buy at all.