[HN Gopher] Businesses are in for a mighty debt hangover
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Businesses are in for a mighty debt hangover
Author : mfiguiere
Score : 18 points
Date : 2023-05-16 22:26 UTC (33 minutes ago)
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| fnordpiglet wrote:
| While many think it's a hype cycle, which it is to some degree, I
| think generative AI is about to pour gasoline on economic growth.
| rlytho wrote:
| The question is how?
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| Same old "everyone starts a tech company and white collar
| workers continue to exploit manual laborers" or local AI
| craters entertainment and software employment as viable options
| for the masses since the machine can just generate state asked
| of it, so we kick off rebuilding/modernizing all the crumbling
| real infra?
| matrix_overload wrote:
| Be careful with your estimations. Generative AI currently
| resembles VR in 2018. Very impressive as a technology, and will
| certainly find its niches, but grossly overestimated by the
| public.
| ssalka wrote:
| Having engaged in a couple previous hype cycles (2017 crypto,
| 2020 tools for thought, 2022 Twitter alternatives), this one
| feels qualitatively more mainstream, and thus overall larger -
| it's not just tech bros getting into these tools, it's
| virtually everyone. So I tend to agree that we're going to see
| a big AI boom in the coming years.
|
| My main question at this point is whether regulation and/or
| lawsuits will hamper any of that progress or at least slow it
| down.
| qup wrote:
| https://archive.is/77Zvv
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