Ask HN: What Makes AI a Bubble?

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A lot of people seem to take it as a given that the AI bubble will "pop", leading to a mass devaluation of AI companies from their current peaks.What I'm confused about though is what makes current AI evaluations a bubble.Bubbles usually exists when future speculation outpaces productivity: eventually some realization leads the market to no longer believe in that future speculation, causing devaluation which triggers a mass sell-off.However, AI companies currently have very high revenues and are growing extremely fast.

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I can't imagine that there is any room for a bubble, as it is very clear where the market is at, and why demand for AI is so high.Now, certain specific companies I can imagine losing a lot of valuation, but only contingent on the fact that they serve a middle-man role in the market that improvements in the underlying AI models will solve, which would likely only mean more revenue for the frontier labs, and thus less reason...

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