As generative AI has taken off since ChatGPT’s debut, inspiring lots of of billions of {dollars} in investments and infrastructure developments, the highest query on many individuals’s minds has been: Is generative AI a bubble, and in that case, when will it pop?
To assist us doubtlessly reply that query, I will be internet hosting a stay dialog with outstanding AI critic Ed Zitron on October 7 at 3:30 pm ET as a part of the Ars Dwell sequence. As Ars Technica’s senior AI reporter, I have been monitoring each the explosive progress of this trade and the mounting skepticism about its sustainability.
You possibly can watch the dialogue stay on YouTube when the time comes.
Zitron is the host of the Higher Offline podcast and CEO of EZPR, a media relations firm. He writes the e-newsletter The place’s Your Ed At, the place he steadily dissects OpenAI’s funds and questions the precise utility of present AI merchandise. His current posts have examined whether or not corporations are shedding cash on AI investments, the economics of GPU leases, OpenAI’s trillion-dollar funding wants, and what he calls “The Subprime AI Disaster.”
Throughout our dialog, we’ll dig into whether or not the present AI funding frenzy matches the precise enterprise worth being created, what occurs when corporations notice their AI spending is not producing returns, and whether or not we’re seeing indicators of a peak within the present AI hype cycle. We’ll additionally focus on what it is prefer to be a outstanding and generally controversial AI critic amid the drumbeat of AI mania within the tech trade.
Whereas Ed and I do not see eye to eye on the whole lot, his sharp criticism of the AI trade’s excesses ought to make for an attractive dialogue about one among tech’s most consequential questions proper now.
Please be part of us for what must be a energetic dialog in regards to the sustainability of the present AI growth.
