AI Bubbles & Robot Armies - CleanTechnica

The article from CleanTechnica discusses the current hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, highlighting concerns about a potential financial bubble in AI investments. Analyst Julien Garran from MacroStrategy Partnership warns that the AI bubble is vastly larger than previous bubbles, being 17 times the size of the dot-com bubble and four times larger than the 2008 housing bubble. Garran argues that despite massive spending—citing costs of $50 million for ChatGPT-3, $500 million for ChatGPT-4, and an estimated $5 billion for ChatGPT-5—the improvements between AI generations are minimal, and AI deployments often fail to deliver profitability or efficiency gains for companies. The article’s author expresses some skepticism about these claims, noting that AI does have practical uses in certain fields, though possibly not as widespread as proponents suggest. A significant part of the concern revolves around the growing debt financing fueling AI industry expenditures. According to Goldman Sachs, about $141 billion of the $500 billion spent on