• Ulrich@feddit.org
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      I think yes. Look at how long they’ve been trying to cram voice assistants down our throats. There’s no point at which they’ll say “no, I don’t think these are ready yet, let’s pull them back”.

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        It is clear to all that a bubble has been growing.

        If you’re insisting the bubble will never burst, then there has to eventually be an actual use case for this that makes back the billions they’re investing no? What’s that use case? A Copilot subscription?

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          there has to eventually be an actual use case for this that makes back the billions they’re investing no?

          No. They just keep investing in perpetuity. Look at Tesla.

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            Look at Tesla.

            Sure

            Tesla’s stock has plummeted over 50% since December, causing the company to lose $800 billion in market value. That drop has also knocked roughly $100 billion off Musk’s net worth, though he remains the world’s richest person, with a fortune estimated at $329 billion by Forbes.

            According to the Financial Times, short sellers have made over $16 billion betting against Tesla in the last three months, and some analysts have downgraded their global delivery forecasts to the lowest levels since 2022.

            https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-stock-tanked-hard-no-161417378.html

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              Look closelier. +5% over the last 5 days. +18% over the last month. +77% over the last 12 months. +460% over the last 5 years. That’s in spite of the CEO’s recent deeply polarizing antics that have nothing to do with Tesla itself.

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                Don’t make up numbers.

                +77% over the last 12 months

                It’s -21.36%. I don’t know where you’re getting this info from.

                Type “Tesla stock” into Google and select YTD (year to date).

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                  LOL I am not making up numbers, you just don’t understand what “year to date” means…

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                    Oh, got it. Yeah thats embarrassing. Google places it right after 6 months so i didnt even think about it LOL. I see the +77% over the past year.

                    We’re super in the weeds at this point, and Tesla stock has nothing to do with AI so i shouldn’t have even entertained you changing the goalposts, but now that you have I’ll admit you scored on this one.

                    Back to the original point though, neither Tesla nor AI will grow in perpetuity, the bubbles will burst, it’s just a question of when.

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        I mean - I still don’t use them so - ? And knowing they’re infected with AI, I wouldn’t use them for anything other than the simplest, statistically-improbable-to-get-wrong tasks.

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          You’d be surprised, Google voice commands have gotten so bad it can’t toggle a light. Things as simple as “define: word” are now a 50/50 of working or spitting out some random crap unrelated to what was attempted to be looked up. I’ve stopped using the little speakers for anything other than streaming music while cooking.

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            I guess - i mean, the smallpox virus is still here too, it’s just very unpopular and not very profitable.