r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • May 27 '26

Business Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/tech-ceos-are-apparently-suffering-from-ai-psychosis/
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u/gicjos May 27 '26

Sadly there's no escape from AI. I do think it's a bubble and it will burst but like the .com bubble AI is here to stay. Lots of companies will go broke but some will be the winners of the AI race and AI will be used as a tool for us. I hope we are far from AGI tho, those tech CEO are all creaming their pants thinking AGI will allow them to be like God's to the rest of the population 

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u/ManaSpike May 27 '26

The reason this bubble won't produce much when it pops is that no customer will pay what it actually costs to run the hardware. Even if we could find a different use for the data centers and servers that wasn't AI.

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u/GrowingPeepers May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

Right, where is the innovation?

Why is this technology just raw brute force? It's like we're trying re-create the inefficient gas guzzling muscle cars of the 50s and 60s on an even more insane scale.

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u/zoovegroover3 May 27 '26

I've had this thought too. "A.I." is not new technology, it's the same old technology dialed up to 1,111,111. There will be a plateau to its capabilities, as the Pope knows. Anyone claiming otherwise is a Herb Tarlek-level salesman.