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Re:I'm Not Convinced the AI Bubble Exists by marzchipane on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:07AM (#50423029)
To be fair, Jevons suggests that as prices fall, novel use-cases are unlocked. The things you or others currently do with AI might not need frontier models or loads of tokens, but if prices fall or capabilities increase, new applications might arise to exploit that.
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Re:I'm Not Convinced the AI Bubble Exists by Panzer04 on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:47PM (#50435465)
Yes, this reasoning has been used to justify the absolutely gigantic amount of spending going into AI right now.

I'm not convinced it's true. It just seems to be taken for granted that demand for intelligence is unlimited and that its cost limited, which just doesn't seem true to me.

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