How a seminal 2017 paper by Google researchers laid the groundwork for the AI hype cycle, resulting in a Silicon Valley frenzy not seen since the dot-com boom
In late May, 300 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, journalists and assorted self-described thought leaders crammed into Shack15 … LinkedIn: Peter Leyden . Tweets: @business , @iporollo , @bw , @dinabass , @rachelmetz , @scale_ai , @kantrowitz , and @bradstone LinkedIn: Peter Leyden : This week ends with a terrific cover story in Bloomberg's Businessweek that leads with the Meeting of the Minds event I hosted a couple weeks ago to figure out the real implications of Generative AI. … Tweets: @business : The AI hype cycle has produced a frenzy not seen in tech since the dot-com fever of the late 1990s https://www.bloomberg.com/... Ivan Porollo / @iporollo : Had a great chat with @BradStone about the AI boom happening in SF and the @cerebral_valley community Checkout the full article: https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image] @bw : NEW COVER: The AI boom has Silicon Valley on another manic quest to change the world. Our annual tech issue is your guide to the technologies, evangelists, skeptics and everything else caught up in the flood of cash and enthusiasm reshaping the industry https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image] Dina Bass / @dinabass : The issue also features a terrific @BradStone essay (is there any other kind?) on what the promise of an AI boom may mean for San Francisco and Silicon Valley https://www.bloomberg.com/... Rachel Metz / @rachelmetz : it's an AI, AI world. read this essay — it's chock full of historical perspective and excellent details RE the last several months of crazy— by @BradStone. https://twitter.com/... @scale_ai : “There are a lot of AI tourists pretending to be natives,” @alexandr_wang says. “Ultimately they're just selling vaporware.” Read more from @BradStone's opening essay in the AI issue of @BW https://www.bloomberg.com/... Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : “The young engineers and entrepreneurs flocking to Cerebral Valley and its environs weren't necessarily around to learn the painful lessons from the last cycle about the fickleness of trends and the risks of competing against the resource-rich tech giants” https://www.bloomberg.com/... Brad Stone / @bradstone : from the depths of layoffs, cratering valuations and doom loops... The AI hype cycle has produced a Silicon Valley frenzy not seen since the dot-com fever of the late 1990s. My opening essay for AI issue of @BW: https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @BW