Recent drops in artificial intelligence stocks after the U.S. elections highlight a growing divide between insulated tech executives and frustrated users. Unlike earlier consumer tech eras that provided free tools, modern AI systems require massive, costly development and ongoing operational spending. Although AI can duplicate programming by copying existing material, it cannot generate genuine innovation. As credit conditions tighten, the broader technology sector will inevitably decentralize away from a single dominant regional center.
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The tech landscape will shift to a multi-hub model that permanently erodes Silicon Valley…: The tech landscape will shift to a multi-hub model that permanently erodes Silicon Valley's global dominance.
Tightening investor credit will soon expose the true development and operational costs of…: Tightening investor credit will soon expose the true development and operational costs of artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence tools can copy existing material in programming but lack the capa…: Artificial intelligence tools can copy existing material in programming but lack the capability for genuine innovation.
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I expected something to happen around the AI hype after the US elections. I didn’t expect it to happen so soon. Too early to tell yaddah yaddah, and the hype could very well continue for another few months, but did any AI-related stock ever tumble before now?
Silicon Valley exists in its own reality bubble. Hell, the entire US tech scene inhabits in a bubble whose main feature is relentless self-flagellation. Apparently they’re all Guilty and will be Punished. (Then again, the US is fundamentally a Calvinist country.) Sanity prevails only outside the US. Sometimes.
For now I’ll stick to my idea: the Valley is creating something with the appeal of a 19th-century factory, complete with oppressed and estranged workers, without delivering the sole benefit of such factories: cheaper IT and other services. They want…
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