I was born in 1997 and have no clue how the .com bubble looked like. With the way they are advertising AI right now (it will solve every problem on earth) it just annoys me, and what’s worse people who aren’t in the ML/DL field are buying it too. I am just curious how the .com was like and how it compares to the current AI bubble?
My older brother, who was a graduated CS major, turned me on to it way before anyone else had heard of it. He was also the first person to introduce me to the existence of Java (not script) when he brought a book home for the holidays some years before that.
I mostly agree with the above take. Except people were talking about this stuff on the news a lot. It was one of the interesting stories of the time. As well as Y2K and the increased traffic in Silicon Valley.
The big difference (to me) is that the public is, I think, more aware in that you can see it on your daily carry devices and tell that there’s something neat there, sorta, but not enough to want it. Back then it was stuff other people were doing while only a fraction (I couldn’t tell you how many) people were already online. Not that I think most of the public is using AI, but they know it’s an option on a device (or more) that they already have as opposed to being excluded.
Both are colossal wastes of capital.