[HN Gopher] Businesses are in for a mighty debt hangover ___________________________________________________________________ Businesses are in for a mighty debt hangover Author : mfiguiere Score : 18 points Date : 2023-05-16 22:26 UTC (33 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (www.economist.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.economist.com) | fnordpiglet wrote: | While many think it's a hype cycle, which it is to some degree, I | think generative AI is about to pour gasoline on economic growth. | rlytho wrote: | The question is how? | | Same old "everyone starts a tech company and white collar | workers continue to exploit manual laborers" or local AI | craters entertainment and software employment as viable options | for the masses since the machine can just generate state asked | of it, so we kick off rebuilding/modernizing all the crumbling | real infra? | matrix_overload wrote: | Be careful with your estimations. Generative AI currently | resembles VR in 2018. Very impressive as a technology, and will | certainly find its niches, but grossly overestimated by the | public. | ssalka wrote: | Having engaged in a couple previous hype cycles (2017 crypto, | 2020 tools for thought, 2022 Twitter alternatives), this one | feels qualitatively more mainstream, and thus overall larger - | it's not just tech bros getting into these tools, it's | virtually everyone. So I tend to agree that we're going to see | a big AI boom in the coming years. | | My main question at this point is whether regulation and/or | lawsuits will hamper any of that progress or at least slow it | down. | qup wrote: | https://archive.is/77Zvv ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-05-16 23:00 UTC)