AI Dot-Com Bubble Comparison
The cluster centers on discussions comparing the current AI hype and investments to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, debating whether it's an overvalued bubble that will burst while acknowledging the underlying technology's potential.
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For those who went through the dotcom bubble is this reminiscent?
As someone who has been through the hype and then crash of dotcoms in 2000, this does feel like a bubble.
It feels a bit like the 1999 dot com bubble. The internet was real but valuations got ahead of the reality.
You're reminding me of the takes in the original dot-com bubble — which was indeed a bubble, don't get me wrong — all the nay-sayers 24 years ago asking why anyone would want to shop or bank online, missing that it was easy, fast, cheap, convenient, and sufficiently good.Of course, just a lot of companies went under when that bubble collapsed, and there's no guarantee that any of the current AI players will make the right move this time either.
A bubble much like the dotcom bubble. but the internet didn't go away...it was flourishing 3 years later.
The internet was a bubble too. Remember the dot com era?Just because the tech is legit doesn’t mean it can’t have a bubble.
The tech bubble is a comin' back around...
Dotcom bubble was the same way. We're in the early stages.
Both can be true at the same time. Similar to the early days of the Internet, the dot-com bubble eventually popped, but the Internet (and dot-coms, for that matter) didn't go away.What people are saying is that this mad race to throw cash at anything that has "AI" in it will eventually stop, and what will remain are the useful things.
It's the same as the dot com bubble. A lot of hype, a lot of investment in silly things, but also ultimately a huge amount of real value that continues increasing for decades.