Corporate investment in data centers for AI is creating a very low supply and a very high demand. Inventory for individual product parts are not static or set in stone. One part may go up, one may go down.

One other caveat is that many RAM makers aren't increasing their yields because they fear an impending AI bubble pop.

[–] coyootje@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I honestly can't wait for the bubble to pop. There are some very niche use cases where AI can provide actual benefits but overall it's been such a slopfest. And companies keep trying to force it into everything, even when it makes their product infinitely worse. So damn annoying.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If it pops it takes the whole stock market with it and no one is retiring, probably ever again. Same with home ownership, it will exacerbate every problem we're currently facing.

But if it actually works...

Corporations will fire virtually all their employees, what few jobs remain will see their wages crumble because there's so much compeyfor such few jobs. Just instead of all of us being fucked, only 99.9999999999% of us will be fucked and a very few people will have successfully hoarded the wealth of an entire planet.

What else are we going to do? Stop spending hundreds of billions a year on a pipedream?

Then what? Spend it on education, housing, Medicare, and a functional society where everyone fundamentally has enough to lose that crime basically elimates itself?

Ironically enough it all comes down to the message from that Movie where Ferris Beuller played an AI at video games:

A STRANGE GAME. THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

I gotta hand it to them, gutting education as far back as they did was brilliant.

[–] coyootje@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have (idle) hopes that most of the losses will fall on the people that created this mess. I know that's not what happened in 2008 but one can hope. I'm not into stocks myself so I hope I would be safe when it happens but you never know, I was too young in 2008 to see/feel the full effects of it happening. Maybe I'd be screwed too. But I'd honestly take a few years of things being shitty over the nonsense what's happening now. I got through covid, I'm sure this would be manageable too, especially since I live in Europe.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Based on the way this is all going, there will be a sudden dip, then Trump will tweet some horse shit about AI popping, then it will be a vertical line down. Those who support him, which is every billionaire right now just about, will be in the know or find out at point that Trump fucked them.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

They're truly going all in on the burn it all down next week so we can be fat and happy today method, let's see how it works out for them cotton