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Demand for forward-deployed engineers and other customer-facing technical roles in AI is surging. Chart shows 1000% growth since 2024

IMHO "Forward Deployed" was always just a fancy way of saying "services". Am I right? But I'm glad to see my old job is getting some respect!

www.ft.com/content/9100...

#AI #forwarddeployed #services

IMHO there is a key difference: banks need healthy balance sheets to keep lending, without which the economy grinds to a halt. Google, Microsoft and Nvidia can all loose $500B each and we'll still be able to use the internet and office tools. Am I right?

Is OpenAI Becoming Too Big to Fail? Sam Altman’s ability to intertwine the startup throughout major tech players puts it at the nexus of a vital part of the U.S. economy.

So now chatbots are "too big to fail" like the investment banks in 2007? Gimme a break! 🤯

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-o...

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#AIHype #AI #GenAI #Bubble

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Maybe send a letter to the president of the DANA foundation? Or mention her on whatever social network she uses. She is probably on LinkedIn.

Thank you for saving me the trouble of testing them myself!

My hot take: Yes, its a bubble. But the dot-com and housing crashes showed its easy to spot a bubble; the hard part is knowing when it will burst. (Someone smarter than me first said that... who was it?)

"Bubbles hinge less on a technology’s long-term impact and more on whether adoption and capital cycles align. The internet was revolutionary, but that did not prevent the dot-com collapse. AI may well reshape global industries, but its financial foundations could still falter."

Is AI a Boom or a Bubble? Nvidia’s $100 billion commitment to OpenAI—and OpenAI’s reciprocal chip purchases—signal an AI arms race accelerating at breakneck speed. How can leaders make sense of this market? An examination of r...

Harvard Business Review weighs in on the #AI question - spoiler alert, they don't take a stand either way.
hbr.org/2025/10/is-a...

#AIHype #GenAI

Sorry to hear that happened! But you’re right academic culture can be pretty brutal, or at least it was when I was in it. I was wondering if academia had gotten any more gentle, because millennials are so sensitive. On the job a lot of them can’t take being wrong. Gen Z seems a bit better

"Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Finally someone speaks for the silent majority on the "AI question" ...

Thank you @anildash.com !

www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/t...

You have to wonder if OpenAI employees were actually so drunk on their own kool-aid that they believed this, or if it was deliberate click bait to lure the ignorant. 🤔

Leading OpenAI researcher announced a GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened OpenAI researchers recently claimed a major math breakthrough on X, but quickly walked it back after criticism from the community, including Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis, who called out the sloppy comm...

The latest outrageous #AIHype - "Erdos-gate" : GPT-5 had only surfaced existing research, but a senior penAI manager posted that GPT-5 had "found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdős problems".

the-decoder.com/leading-open...

Another fun fact is over capacity at AI conference: NeurIPS forced reviewers to reject hundreds of papers they had wanted to accept!

And "AGI" is being rebranded to "Super Intelligence", an apparent nod to the fact that its not going to be very general any time soon.

One thing that struck me is the weakness of supposed progress in reasoning models - it may be due to overfitting the models to small benchmarks, as it has been observed how adding irrelevant facts to reasoning problems can drive it off the rails.

State of AI Report 2025 The State of AI Report analyses the most interesting developments in AI. Read and download here.

Are you looking for TMI about AI? Look no further - the 2025 State of #AI report is here! I'm still wrapping my head around the information overload in this report 🤯

Please share your favorite finding in the report here!

www.stateof.ai

Is there an organization you would recommend for foreigners to make donations to help?

More news from the intersection of AI and churn, my two favorite subjects: Vibe coding usage plunged after summer high.

- Lovable down 40% since its peak
- Vercel's v0 visits plunge 64%
- Bolt.new slipped 27% since June

www.businessinsider.com/ai-vibe-codi...

#AI #genai #churn #aihype

Glad you’re okay!

and I'm like "why am I paying for this when the free version is enough?" I guess I can keep this up until enshitification sets in and they start showing ads! 😂 What does your GenAI subscriber behavior look like?

I am officially a serial churner from GenAI products - in the last 6 months I have signed up and then canceled a month each of both Claude and Gemini. I was working on specific projects, hit the limits, and I signed up. Then I finished the projects, my usage dropped...

#genai #churn

"AI seems to have reached its iPhone 4 moment", meaning noticeable slowdown in improvements (for those of you old enough to remember the iPhone 4 ;-)

".this sort of feeling of disappointment is due to unreasonable levels of hype." The culprits? Usual suspects: Altman, Musk, Amodei (Anthropic)

Tech's hottest industry is facing a brutal reality check. That's a good thing in the long run. Between Nvidia's recent earnings and OpenAI's underwhelming GPT-5, it's clear AI is entering its "meh" era. That's good news for everyone.

TLDR : AI has led to reasonable revenue growth for a few companies that are pioneering in AI, but no broader economic growth or productivity gains.

www.businessinsider.com/ai-hype-cras...

#AIHype #LLM

3. Neusosymbolic AI - combine statistical approaches with abstract reasoning logic, like humans do

Billions have already been wasted! But will investors learn and stop throwing good money after bad?

Marcus recommends three new approaches to invest in, all based on scientific evidence from human cognition:

1. AI that builds World models a relationship between concepts the way humans do

2. Building in basic concepts like time, space and causality, like human infants have

That scaling has plateaued is clear from the GPT-5 and llama fiasco‘s. Billions were spent for very minimal improvements. Marcus does engage in a little “I told you so” victory lap here referring to his 2022 assertions that were ridiculed back then. Can’t really blame him - Who’s laughing now?

Opinion | The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking

Are you an LLM AGI skeptic? Leading LLM AGI skeptic Gary Marcus has posted an op Ed in the New York Times:

TLDR : scaling has really run out of steam. New approaches are needed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...

#aihype #llm #agi

business owners and customers are humans and they shouldn’t have to bear the cost. I live in Berkeley so trust me I know what I’m talking about. You probably live in a gated community You Bastard 😉

I’m going to stick my neck out here: the camps do real economic harm to nearby businesses. The reality is people don’t want to walk past camps to shop or rent an apartment. If you want to, invite some unhoused to camp at your place. But it needs to be banned and enforced anywhere near businesses.