"No revolutionary leap in 5 years": a skeptic's case that the AI industry is overhyped
imjustnewatai · x · 2026-11-11
After what the author calls the failed Fable 5.2 release, a user lays out a systematic case for AI skepticism:
- Five years into LLMs, there has been no revolutionary leap in intelligence—same Transformer architecture, more parameters and task-specific RL, with no radically different architecture on the horizon.
- Compute costs keep rising and will continue to; GPUs in servers and CUDA are described as ancient history.
- The author concludes by questioning whether the AI industry is fake or a scam.
A representative sample of the "AI bubble" sentiment circulating after underwhelming releases.
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