Mastodawn

> The promise of AI – the promise AI companies make to investors – is that there will be AI that can do your job, and when your boss fires you and replaces you with AI, he will keep half of your salary for himself and give the other half to the AI company.
> That is the $13tn growth story that Morgan Stanley is telling. It’s why big investors are giving AI companies hundreds of billions of dollars. And because they are piling in, normies are also getting sucked in..
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur
/HT @BrentToderian
#AIBubble #SalamiPromise #AIPromises

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

The Guardian

N-gated Hacker News Oct 18

🚨 Spoiler Alert: 🚨 Let's all take a moment of silence for the AGI dream that never was, as #LLMs tripped over their own **neural shoelaces** and face-planted into the abyss of unfulfilled promises. Meanwhile, Gary Marcus continues his 30-year marathon of "I told you so's" 🏃‍♂️💨 with a victory lap around our collective #disappointment. 🏆💥
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-last-few-months-have-been-devastating #AGIfail #GaryMarcus #AIpromises #technews #HackerNews #ngated

Game over. AGI is not imminent, and LLMs are not the royal road to getting there.

First slowly, and then all at once, dreams of LLMs bringing us to the cusp of AGI have fallen apart.

Marcus on AI