Brutkey

Mike McCaffrey
@mikemccaffrey@drupal.community
Cartoon of a parrot that is also a slot machine. A hand is reaching up to pull the handle on the side. A speech bubble says "That is a fantastic question!". It is a very attractive and dramatic image that only has some minor problems, namely odd punctuation in the speech bubble and there are two hands grasping the handle from opposite directions. d81aa086f750e1d0.png The safeguards include reminders to take a break from the screen, privacy warnings and restrictions on video recommendations. YouTube, which has been owned by Google for nearly 20 years, also doesn’t show ads tailored to individual tastes if a viewer is under 18. 1486446d845752ec.png Robotaxi Falls Into Construction Pit Social media was apparently ablaze this week in China after a robotaxi ended up in a construction pit. It was a Baidu Apollo Go robotaxi, and it was indeed transporting a paying passenger. It’s not clear how the robotaxi ended up at the bottom of this construction pit, but there were reportedly barriers and warning signs around the pit. d0f2b90dce1cd24c.png Why Drupal is built for the AI era Drupal accidentally prepared for AI. The architectural decisions that made Drupal 8 painful to adopt now make it uniquely capable of deep AI integration. c544752620e42666.png Looking down at a rough hewn picnic table on which someone has scrawled "When will it get here already". A small scruffy dog is sitting on my lap at the bottom and at the top are a food container, pitcher, and glass. The pitcher has a tad of beer at the bottom, but the food container and glass are both completely empty. I've been sitting here a while and have consumed almost everything. 9f11c192bbd60dd2.png Prompt: How will the Al investment bubble collapse? ChatGPT: If the Al investment bubble collapses, it would likely follow patterns similar to previous tech bubbles, like the dot-com crash in the early 2000s. Here's how such a collapse might unfold: 1. Overhype and Overvaluation (Current or Pre-Crash Phase) Startups and public companies get massive funding based on inflated expectations. Revenue and profit often lag behind valuation. Companies may rebrand or pivot to Al without real tech just to attract investors. be853682b470e56f.png ChatGPT: 2. Market Saturation and Missed Expectations Too many similar products (e.g., countless chatbots, copilots, Al productivity tools). Promised breakthroughs (AGI, full autonomy, etc.) may fail to materialize quickly. Costs of scaling models (compute, energy, data) increase faster than returns. Users and businesses discover limitations in accuracy, ethics, and utility. d10f38786c1c4651.png ChatGPT 3. Financial Pressure Builds Monetization fails: High user interest doesn't translate to sustainable revenue. Companies burn cash without clear paths to profitability. Interest rates or macroeconomic conditions worsen, drying up capital. Investors start demanding real results - not just promises. 4f1b1f7a0754f642.png ChatGPT: 4. Confidence Collapse A few major players miss earnings, go bankrupt, or reveal fraud. Investor sentiment shifts quickly, triggering mass sell-offs. Private equity and VC firms pull back funding or try to exit. Layoffs, shutdowns, and fire sales begin across the sector. 7e05674f18834fab.png Slide from a conference presentation by Nancy Giordano who bills herself as a strategic futurist. An arrow points to the knee of an exponential curve with the text "could we be sitting on the horizon of 14 internet sized transformations". There is no dash in "internet-sized" and there is no context about how the weirdly-specific number 14 was selected. 0c6924408ba74ad0.png