Reuters reports that AI-related companies lost $190 billion in stock market value on Tuesday following disappointing earnings reports.
No shit that was a bubble. Fun for all of two seconds but application in its current form is niche/sketchy at best. There is lots of promise for the future of AI but right now it just makes things more complicated and end results are unreliable.
bubbles like this can set back that future by decades though…
I think AI is going to be ok.
That’s a weird take given the actual numbers and relative results per company, but ok.
Microsoft’s price didn’t change much at all and is still trading at a 35 P/E ratio (17% higher than Apple’s) despite being neck and neck in the race for the largest company in the market and allegedly not having its AI efforts actually change product usage. Clearly the market is still pricing it as if it’s going to grow more somehow.
AMD is down, but since when is AMD an “AI company”? That’s Nvidia through and through, who is still double digit percentage points up from a month ago, and trading at a 81 P/E ratio. The market losing faith in Nvidia’s competition seems more like the opposite of this headline, given it’s the key area where Nvidia has a market advantage over AMD.
Google, whose revenue is 90% ads, is down in response to falling short on ad sales. Which if anything may be a result of increased chatbot usage reducing search volume and Google’s chat offering being the Bing of AI chatbots.
This is clickbait analysis.
Thank god the bubbles finally starting to burst. I am tired of hearing about ‘AI’.
Right??? I swear every damn app is trying to shoehorn in some sort of AI nonsense just to hop on the bandwagon.
A lot of them aren’t actually implementing anything, they’re just changing words on their product description.
Like a spell checking addon suddenly rebranding itself as “AI”.
From the very start of all this, it never made sense to call any of this “artificial intelligence”, but that marketing stuck, and now we’re trying to retroactively apply it to very basic things like text suggestion, further diluting the meaning of the term.
Artificial Insemination 2024
You’re not going to stop hearing about AI. Perhaps AI companies won’t be so high-profile, but AI itself is being integrated into lots of things and it’s not going to go away. The only thing that’s happened here is that it’s proving to be not quite so profitable as expected being an AI-specific company.
Edit: Perhaps not even that, the article appears to be neglecting to mention that this is part of a trend across the whole stock market rather than something AI-specific.
AI isn’t new. Algorithms “are” ai. All apps always used it. But it’s changed from algorithms to AI.
AI is just a specific subset of algorithms, also not that new - first concept are from 1960 or so (from memory don’t quote me) with perceptron. New is parallel computing power of modern chips - that allows for far better performance.
I remember YouTube videos or podcasts where presenters said that we’d have very advanced AI by GPT-5 and singularity is just around the corner. Marketing stuff of these companies pushing language models made us all fools (including me). Now finances are catching up to all this bullshit.
The same thing was said about self-driving. I recall arguing with people on reddit back in like 2018 who called me an idiot because I didn’t believe we’d have full autonomous driving within the next few years. I swear these people jump from one fad to the next and dive into each one head first.
Uh yes, they do. It’s the same group of people falling for this stuff over and over. Crypto, NFTs, Self Driving, AI now. What’s important to them is being able to point at this stuff and make a wojack face
This is such clickbait. They just added up the total stock decline in every company that has any involvement in AI. They call Google and Microsoft AI companies.
it’s “AI” not AI…
It’s AI not AGI
It’s A “I,” not “AI”
no, it’s quite literally AI. It’s a research field in IT that is quite old.
Or are you ranting for years already that the AI that computer games use is also not really AI? Because they do that for decades as well.
People like you are really starting to be a problem, as they water down the discussion of real problems this topic has by blabbering on about “iTs nOt ReAl Ai”. Stop it. It’s not productive. Concentrate on the real problems instead of doing armchair bullshit like this
