Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Yeah; its concerning how depressingly similar Sam's recent language is to, say, SBF's in his prime. Waxing poetically with faux-intellectualism about the sheer addressable market his business will capture (all of humanity) (and funded by the government) [1]. You can just listen to key players in the space, how their language has changed over the past year, and recognize that we're probably very near a local maxima / plateau / AI winter.

Reality is: AI is startlingly expensive. Stupid, stupid expensive. Microsoft is building "Stargate", their $100B AI-focused supercomputer [2]. The money to build that isn't coming from selling AI services. Its coming from their old, boring, tried and true businesses; Windows, Office, Azure, and M365. Xbox is dying before our eyes. Their tried and true businesses make great money but aren't growing. Its up to AI to prove to investors that their P/E multiple is justified.

[1] https://twitter.com/tsarnick/status/1789107043825262706

[2] https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/meet-stargate-the-dollar100-bil...



I always mix SBF and Altman in my mind, and have to spend few seconds thinking which was which..

But IMO the current AI hype has some almost religious elements to it




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: