Jeff Bezos Says the AI Bubble is Like the Industrial Bubble

Jan 14, 2026 7:38 PM

TheGreatMani

Views

2428

Likes

4

Dislikes

10

artificial_intelligence

God, he’s an awful speaker. I read The Everything Store so we know he’s an obnoxious weasel but I’ve never heard his mumbly dork voice before.

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This bubble will move gaming to be completely unaffordable and soon subscription and cloud based

2 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Billionaires are the enemy of the working class

2 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Is this like that rant about the industrial revolution being like a little lost puppy?

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Still waiting for the quality to go up.

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

any minute now, i heard

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's cool to advocate for life saving drugs, the hurdles that had to be overcome to get there, and the risks involved. It's the bad actors that'll appropriate that wonder and put a price on it so high only the upper class benefits. The same things are being done with AI. Marvels will be developed, but it's the interested parties wanting to monetize *every* aspect of it along the way that are the corrupting element in this formula today.

2 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Marvels will not be developed. You can grow terrific plants from shit, but you can’t grow anything from industrial waste.

2 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

You are also very correct that this tech boom will likely create a great deal of energy waste, and that in turn will fuck with growing anything where ever they plan to deposit that hazardous waste.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well, I meant in line of things like new batteries. We recently had AI tools blur through what resources we had available and it helped lead designers towards a promising multivalent-ion (magnesium, calcium, aluminum and zinc) as an alternative to lithium-ion. We could enjoy the 'benefits' of possibly cheaper and safer products, but the other side of that coin will be all the industry worker positions being pushed out of their jobs to robots to help the company 'save a buck..'

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So when it's all going to happen? Because with industrialization the numbers where there before installing first machine.

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Interesting, could you elaborate?

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

When they put machines in factories they calculated how much more products they will be able to produce in week/month/quarter. How much money they will save on paychecks. What is the cost of running the machine. WIth aislop it's all "we will see, it will, going to have". Talking about future while we know that ai made code for windows 11. We know it was bad, we know it is bad. And there are still no numbers to back the change. The ai promises are like the pyramid scheme talks "it surely will"

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Ok I got you. Yeah, it's a spurious comparison he's making, but in terms of how investing is done, it's true that in the end the companies that actually add value are the ones that survive. Unfortunately more and more "retail" investors, normal people with trading apps, are getting scammed into investing in the shady ones.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

but this is thing we're talking for 2 years. All the "ai startups" are just repacked chatgpt agents. You can buy access to al AI for peanuts. And the companies who add value are the ones who profit from it directly. Like Nvidia. giving money so Altman can but more ram. And we know chatgpt is making loss after loss.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0