• Perspectivist@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    4 days ago

    It’s not quite right to say those companies are “all in on AI” when their core businesses are still based on physical products and established services. These were already highly successful companies long before the AI boom. If their valuations are inflated because of the hype, a correction wouldn’t send them to zero - it would just bring their prices back in line with their actual underlying value.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 days ago

      Fair though “actual underlying value” is a bit of a fiction in general. There really no objective numerical value that is Inherent to anything.

    • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      11
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      4 days ago

      Fair.

      But, nvidia (the largest by weight/volume/value on each of the indexes) would be almost nothing without the ai hype, and the loss of Chinese contracts will see it plunge regardless of a bubble.

      Google, ms, and apple have added nothing of worth to their products while pumping billions to their ai surveillance bots.

      All told, the value of the indexes will plummet like Wile E. Coyote when cartoon reality kicks in.

      The bottom, however, will hit much harder than he ever felt.