Are we in an AI bubble?
A simple answer is we better hope not.
You are far too young to remember Tulip Mania in 1637, Google it,
but perhaps you remember the housing bubble that caused the 2008 great financial crisis.
It was the worst day on Wall Street since the crash of 1987.
Shock and panic evident on the faces of those on the trading floor.
How many of you When bubbles pop, there's pain.
But while consensus is growing that we are in an AI bubble,
there's a fight raging over what type of AI bubble we're actually in and what will happen when she goes pop. What to keep your third eye open
for coming up on Today Explained. 15 years ago I was very pessimistic.
I was very much in the world doomed because of climate change and there's no way we're going to solve this.
Now I'm framed as the kind of optimistic person on climate.
A lot of it has come from stepping back to look at the data.
So what does that data look like?
Find out this week on The Gray Area, hosted by me, Sean Elling.
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This week on Version History, the Verge's new chat show about old technology.
We're talking guitar hero.
You know, the game that we all spent countless hours standing in our living rooms,
hammering away on a plastic guitar, just trying to be rock stars.