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There is an upper limit to what current transformer models can do, there are other methods/models in the works that already work and will be more appropriate for some tasks that need more accuracy and guardrails (that make the tech more expensive) that is already being used by large businesses. What you see on gpt/grok etc is the tip of the iceberg. More specialized hardware than the overgrown gpus we presently use will make generation cheaper and likely more accurate.
The "AI bubble" is nothing like the dot com bubble because it's already producing things and value, there will be corrections during this growing pains period, but I'm skeptical of anyone claiming it's going to be like the dot com crash.
If you want spaghetti less Will Smith you train an ai without will smith spaghetti memes. People act like the ones training models are at the mercy of anything found on the net but in reality you can quite closely curate training data if needed for specialized tasks.
Where will the power come from, the water and more importantly, the silver?
Fusion is effectively infinite power that produces water as a byproduct, there are roids out in our asteroid belt the size of Texas made out of precious metals and companies are already gearing up to exploit these within the next few decades. Look up the "psyche" roid NASA has been tracking for a while. We will likely use nuclear and more "non renewables" to fill in energy needs in the meantime while we finish hammering out fusion.
Fusion is a non starter, the power needed to start and run it is far more than it produces. https://news.newenergytimes.net/iter-fusion-power-output-consumption-facts-and-falsehoods/
There are new ways of producing power that have been suppressed, here are some of them. https://web.archive.org/web/20220429004028/http://www.cheniere.org/misc/oulist.htm
We don't need to mine asteroids when we can make these elements ourselves. https://www.strikefoundation.earth/
The math works in fusion, we're still hammering out plasma containment issues before we can start getting net positive on it, give it 10-15 years and you will probably see a commercial fusion reactor operating. Suppressed doesn't matter if nobody funds it, so fusion is the current holy grail. Some technology is "suppressed" for good reasons because we haven't proven that it works at scale. Sometimes it suppressed because it's simply not profitable, and the almighty dollar runs the world for now.
And if all the things you posted are so good then why are you asking the question in reply to my comment? "Where will the power come from, the water and more importantly, the silver?" Seems like you have your answers, but the rest of the world is set on fusion and space mining right now and will be until things become "unsuppressed" but business can't rely on that so fusion it is.