https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/14/ai_running_out_of_juice/

AI running out of juice despite Microsoft's hard squeezing

Biz leaders still dream of obedient agents replacing workers. In the
actual workplace, they're going AWOL iconSteven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Fri 14 Mar 2025 // 12:38 UTC

OPINION I am so sick and tired of AI hype. I'm not the only one.

Yeah, with the release of ChatGPT-3.5 in November 2022, AI became a
huge deal. Now, though, the AI revolution, once heralded as the next
big leap for businesses worldwide, is facing a sobering reality check.
Recent data reveals a marked slowdown in AI adoption.

The simple truth is that AI is not living up to its rep.

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On Sat, 15 Mar 2025, Retrograde wrote:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/14/ai_running_out_of_juice/

AI running out of juice despite Microsoft's hard squeezing

Biz leaders still dream of obedient agents replacing workers. In the
actual workplace, they're going AWOL iconSteven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Fri 14 Mar 2025 // 12:38 UTC

OPINION I am so sick and tired of AI hype. I'm not the only one.

Yeah, with the release of ChatGPT-3.5 in November 2022, AI became a
huge deal. Now, though, the AI revolution, once heralded as the next
big leap for businesses worldwide, is facing a sobering reality check.
Recent data reveals a marked slowdown in AI adoption.

The simple truth is that AI is not living up to its rep.

Oh there will be an AI crash, no doubt about it. What I am currently
working on is to try an get a feel for when.

Given the fact that common people are talking AI is a good indicator that
the crash is near.

I think there will several factors that will come together. Trade wars, governments borrowing more money, AI not delivering, a massive shift to government spending on useless military junk, tax increases. All of these pressures against a sane and working economy will reach a point where expecations will be missed, and then we could very well see a 20%-30% drop
in the markets.

I think perhaps 12-24 months. And increasingly volatile markets up until
then.

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On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 12:11:54 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

Given the fact that common people are talking AI is a good indicator that
the crash is near.

I believe AI vaporware suggested potential uses, and they conjured up
mythical ways it could be used, and how rich they would be.

AI could be used as a tool, like finding tax cheats, but humans will
still have to verify its content/reasoning/etc.

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On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 12:11:54 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote in <b6f32d3c-41e2-844d-80ba-fc0b0fa2965a@example.net>:

On Sat, 15 Mar 2025, Retrograde wrote:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/14/ai_running_out_of_juice/

AI running out of juice despite Microsoft's hard squeezing

Biz leaders still dream of obedient agents replacing workers. In the
actual workplace, they're going AWOL iconSteven J. Vaughan-Nichols Fri
14 Mar 2025 // 12:38 UTC

OPINION I am so sick and tired of AI hype. I'm not the only one.

Yeah, with the release of ChatGPT-3.5 in November 2022, AI became a
huge deal. Now, though, the AI revolution, once heralded as the next
big leap for businesses worldwide, is facing a sobering reality check.
Recent data reveals a marked slowdown in AI adoption.

The simple truth is that AI is not living up to its rep.

Oh there will be an AI crash, no doubt about it. What I am currently
working on is to try an get a feel for when.

Given the fact that common people are talking AI is a good indicator
that the crash is near.

I think there will several factors that will come together. Trade wars, governments borrowing more money, AI not delivering, a massive shift to government spending on useless military junk, tax increases. All of
these pressures against a sane and working economy will reach a point
where expecations will be missed, and then we could very well see a
20%-30% drop in the markets.

I think perhaps 12-24 months. And increasingly volatile markets up until then.

"[AI] Winter is coming..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

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Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/14/ai_running_out_of_juice/

AI running out of juice despite Microsoft's hard squeezing

Biz leaders still dream of obedient agents replacing workers. In the
actual workplace, they're going AWOL iconSteven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Fri 14 Mar 2025 // 12:38 UTC

OPINION I am so sick and tired of AI hype. I'm not the only one.

Yeah, with the release of ChatGPT-3.5 in November 2022, AI became a
huge deal. Now, though, the AI revolution, once heralded as the next
big leap for businesses worldwide, is facing a sobering reality check.
Recent data reveals a marked slowdown in AI adoption.

The simple truth is that AI is not living up to its rep.

s/AI/blockchain/g

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On 2025-03-16, Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

The simple truth is that AI is not living up to its rep.

s/AI/blockchain/g

100% agree.

By the way if Microsoft suggests one more f*ing CoPilot to me, I'm going
to drive over and punch SatNad in the face. Everywhere you turn, some
tech monopoly is trying to convince you their AI product is
indispensable. I think they need us to use their crap more than we need
their crap. They're trying to keep the venture capital funding spigot
flowing.

I personally don't find any of it useful. Ebay now allows you to
autopopulate your sale items with AI descriptions. As a buyer you can
spot the AI slop writing a mile away. I for one refuse to buy from
someone too lazy to write the item description by hand.

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On Sun, 16 Mar 2025, Retrograde wrote:

On 2025-03-16, Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

The simple truth is that AI is not living up to its rep.

s/AI/blockchain/g

100% agree.

By the way if Microsoft suggests one more f*ing CoPilot to me, I'm going
to drive over and punch SatNad in the face. Everywhere you turn, some
tech monopoly is trying to convince you their AI product is
indispensable. I think they need us to use their crap more than we need
their crap. They're trying to keep the venture capital funding spigot flowing.

I personally don't find any of it useful. Ebay now allows you to autopopulate your sale items with AI descriptions. As a buyer you can
spot the AI slop writing a mile away. I for one refuse to buy from
someone too lazy to write the item description by hand.

Same here. I have not found AI to make any significant impact on my life.
The only perfect use case for it was to generate fluff documentation
mandated by law. So for instance, an old customer needed an environmental
plan and the AI worked great coming up with a 20 pages document with pure
b.s. that no one will ever read.

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