@baldur This particular set of circumstances – loads of money being spent chasing something that is plausibly somewhat useful but also over-hyped – is a recipe for an approximate replay of the dot-com bubble
(I don't like the ethics of AI but I don't think it's a cryptocurrency-level nonsense – and the rush to slap AI on everything is getting reminiscent of every company suddenly declaring itself a web company, funding for dumb ideas if they have AI, etc)