It would be fascinating to see numbers behind how many AI boosters are religious. Feels like a similar central belief. No matter the current state, boosters believe it will get better: essentially they have faith. Critics take it at current face value and don’t believe it can become AGI.
Although, people creating a digital god would be pretty blasphemous. Tough one.
A financial bubble has a clear definition. You're just changing the meaning to be a different strawman so you can refute that. Are there lots of companies that are overvalued because of their AI offerings, and will those companies fail when they don't provide acceptable returns? If yes, bubble.
These answers take a shockingly long time to resolve considering you can put the questions into Brave search and get basically the same answers in seconds.
preaching to the choir in absolute terms. in relative terms, if a random feature flag company can be bought for over a billion by an AI company, an AI browser company should be able to be sold for at least that much.
their valuation from last funding in March 2024 was $550m, sold for $610m minus cash on hand. so basically at value...agreed that it's a nice windfall for these folks but relatively bad outcome. When you're building a new browser with AI a year before the trillion dollar AI industry goes bananas for AI browsers and you end up with 600 mil, that feels like an L.