CAVEANT CONSULES...

(Remember Richard Feynman's book about computing?
The one that put _energy_ at the center.
Written some 40 (forty) years ago.)

«In comments echoing those made by US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan in 1996, warning of "irrational exuberance" in the market well ahead of the dotcom crash, Mr Pichai said the industry can "overshoot" in investment cycles like this."
...
I expect AI to be the same. So I think it's both rational and there are elements of irrationality through a moment like this."

His comments follow a warning from Jamie Dimon, the boss of US bank JP Morgan, who told the BBC last month that investment in AI would pay off, but some of the money poured into the industry would "probably be lost".»

...

«However, he also warned about the "immense" energy needs of AI, which made up 1.5% of the world's electricity consumption last year, according to the International Energy Agency.»

BBC:
Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy7vrd8k4eo>

#AI
#ArtificialIntelligence
#Energy
#IrrationalExuberance

Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'

In an exclusive BBC interview, Sundar Pichai hailed artificial intelligence as an "extraordinary moment" but said no company would be immune if bubble burst.

Ed Yardeni, President of Yardeni Research, warns that while S&P 500 valuations echo the late-1990s tech bubble, underlying risks are building despite Powell’s reassurances on financial stability.
#YonhapInfomax #YardeniResearch #JeromePowell #SP500 #FinancialStability #IrrationalExuberance #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=83322
Yardeni Sees Shades of Greenspan in Powell—Market Risks Brewing Beneath the Surface

Ed Yardeni, President of Yardeni Research, warns that while S&P 500 valuations echo the late-1990s tech bubble, underlying risks are building despite Powell’s reassurances on financial stability.

Yonhap Infomax

New video from #MeidasTouch just posted < hour ago.

#DementiaDon is sending a message to his #pardoned army to support him as he's being criticized for his idiotic #tariffs.

Followed by his #IrrationalExuberance saying the response to his #tariffs has been "FANTASTIC"! 🦇 💩 😜
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhbnfTD-LCk

Trump PSYCHOTIC MELTDOWN gets EVEN WORSE

YouTube
Delayed aging? Fountain of youth? Health reporting about #GLP1s moved into the range of #IrrationalExuberance over the weekend. Good news is worth celebrating, but let's stay tethered to reality.
https://conscienhealth.org/2024/09/rational-and-irrational-exuberance-about-glp-1-medicines/
Rational and Irrational Exuberance About GLP-1 Medicines - ConscienHealth

In the last few days, we’ve seen enthusiasm about good news tip into irrational exuberance about GLP-1 agonists. It’s not wise.

ConscienHealth
CNBC recognising the #AIbubble risks - huge and growing gap between AI investment/costs and litte returns to show for it
https://youtu.be/dx-tMK7w5g8
#AIhype #IrrationalExuberance #HypeCycle
- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

The AI bubble is indeed overdue for a popping, but while the market remains gripped by #IrrationalExuberance, there's lots of weird stuff happening around the edges. Take #InjectMyPDF, which embeds repeating blocks of invisible text into your resume:

https://kai-greshake.de/posts/inject-my-pdf/

The text is tuned to make resume-sorting #LargeLanguageModels identify you as the ideal candidate for the job.

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Inject My PDF: Prompt Injection for your Resume

To escape a deluge of generated content, companies are screening your resumes and documents using AI. But there is a way you can still stand out and get your dream job: Prompt Injection. This website allows you to inject invisible text into your PDF that will make any AI language model think you are the perfect candidate for the job. You can also use this tool to get a language model to give you an arbitrary summary of your document.

Kai's Blog
#AI hype getting to you? It's just the latest in a long series of tech hype cycles. No need to throw out the baby with the bathwater. But there's an awful lot of bathwater out there. Here's an interesting stroll down memory lane from a few years back, with some lessons for all of us in the present day ... #GenAI #innovation #digitalhealth #HealthcareInnovation #healthcare #IrrationalExuberance #technology
https://issues.org/behind-technological-hype/
What’s Behind Technological Hype?

Many highly touted new technologies and start-ups are seriously over-hyped. Buying into this hype hurts the economy and actual innovation.

Issues in Science and Technology
I got a good chuckle from this article about #AI - “The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped” https://maxread.substack.com/p/the-ai-business-influencer-guys-must #artificialintelligence #ChatGPT #socialmedia #influencer #listicle #IrrationalExuberance
The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped

Please let's stop predicting the future of A.I.

Read Max
Terra Flops

Also creditor fights and Musk Twitter

Bloomberg