How Much Has The World Spent on AI?... So Far
To learn for free on Brilliant, go to http://www.brilliant.org/howmoneyworks. Brilliant’s also given our viewers 20% off an annual Premium subscription, which gives you unlimited daily access to everything on Brilliant. ----- Sign up for our FREE newsletter! - https://www.compoundeddaily.com/ Books we recommend - https://www.howmoneyworkslibrary.com/ Listen on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5gi1JobDJC3QqaF4aKfenR?si=f3IsgWIlSKObF8BT1Fitig ----- My Other Channel: @HowHistoryWorks @HowMoneyWorksUncut Edited By: Svibe Multimedia Studio Music Courtesy of: Epidemic Sound Select Footage Courtesy of: Getty Images 📩 Business Inquiries ➡️ sponsors@worksmedia.group Sign up for our newsletter https://compoundeddaily.com 👈 All materials in these videos are for educational purposes only and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. This video does not provide investment or financial advice of any kind. #ai #money #economy ----- Late last week, Sam Altman said the quiet part out loud when he suggested that AI and the industries surrounding it… might be in a bit of a bubble. This simultaneously shocked absolutely everyone AND absolutely nobody at the same time. The value of the ENTIRE stock market has nearly doubled over the last 5 years. This has been driven almost entirely by just ten companies whose growth was in turn driven almost entirely by the promise of AI. Most people understand that this isn’t sustainable, but they also understand that technology like this has changed the world before. Improvements are slowing down as new models are showing disappointing improvements, but every day we are discovering new things we can do with these products. For every argument there is a counter argument. You don’t need to watch another video speculating about the future of AI because the truth is nobody has a damn clue, BUT, what we CAN do is look back over these last three years and find out how much this whole game has cost us… because the numbers are… not good…
Video Chapters
- 0:00 AI Bubble Alert: Sam Altman's Frank Admission
- 0:52 The True Cost of the AI Game: Beyond the Hype
- 1:10 Powering the Future: Nuclear Energy for AI's Insatiable Demand
- 2:11 Decoding AI's Footprint: What *Really* Fuels the Revolution?
- 3:35 A Staggering Price Tag: 1% of US GDP for AI Compute
- 4:05 The OpenAI Paradox: Fundraising Outpaces Reality
- 5:58 The AI Arms Race: Dollars to Digital Dust
- 8:10 The Harsh Truth: Where is AI's Real-World Return on Investment?
- 10:00 Global Grids at a Crossroads: US vs. China in the AI Energy Race
- 12:00 Your Bill, Their Demands: The AI Impact on Soaring Electricity Costs
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0:00 AI Bubble Alert: Sam Altman's Frank Admission 0:52 The True Cost of the AI Game: Beyond the Hype 1:10 Powering the Future: Nuclear Energy for AI's Insatiable Demand 2:11 Decoding AI's Footprint: What *Really* Fuels the Revolution? 3:35 A Staggering Price Tag: 1% of US GDP for AI Compute 4:05 The OpenAI Paradox: Fundraising Outpaces Reality 5:58 The AI Arms Race: Dollars to Digital Dust 8:10 The Harsh Truth: Where is AI's Real-World Return on Investment? 10:00 Global Grids at a Crossroads: US vs. China in the AI Energy Race 12:00 Your Bill, Their Demands: The AI Impact on Soaring Electricity Costs Timestamps by StampBot 🤖
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0:00 AI bubble looms: Sam Altman speaks the quiet part out loud 0:16 Our entire stock market is practically fueled by AI hype 0:35 Disappointing GPT-5, but Gemini 2.0 still showing cool tricks 0:52 Nobody knows AI's future, but we can look at the cost of this game 1:10 Nuclear reactors power AI as Sam Altman promises millions of GPUs 1:25 Billion dollar valuations for AI, but what's the actual value 1:47 Market cap is just price tags, not destroyed value when prices drop 2:11 The *real* numbers: resources poured into AI, not just cash 2:30 Age of Empires: burning resources to fuel the AI tech tree 2:50 Tech giants desperately investing billions to outpace competitors 3:10 Four big tech companies spending hundreds of billions on AI 3:35 1% of US GDP goes to AI compute; it's worse than you think 4:05 OpenAI's exponential fundraising outpaces revenue, needs money 4:30 Accounting tricks: capital expenditure vs depreciation on AI 5:05 Chips are obsolete faster than they're depreciated for taxes 5:58 The AI arms race: an efficient machine turning dollars into e-waste 6:30 China's state-owned enterprises funnel half a trillion into AI 8:10 MIT report reveals 95% of businesses get zero return from AI 8:50 AI's actual utility: cutting out images, getting off the screen 9:20 The problem: useful AI tools aren't enough for companies or governments 10:00 America's aging electric grid vs China's modern AI infrastructure 10:40 China's massive infrastructure spending, dwarfing US investment 11:20 China's grid oversupply vs America's straining electricity reserves 12:00 Your electricity bill is soaring, thanks to the AI energy demands 12:40 Big Tech wants government to fix the energy grid for AI's sake 13:40 Lobbying for power: tech companies demand grid upgrades Timestamps by StampBot 🤖