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- 0:00It finally happened. The AI bubble
- 0:02burst. If you have any money in the
- 0:04stock market or if you've ever used AI,
- 0:06you're going to want to hear this.
- 0:07>> The AI bubble is not going to burst. It
- 0:10already has.
- 0:11>> The two most popular indexes of the US
- 0:13stock market are the S&P 500 and the Dow
- 0:16Jones. They both try to broadly capture
- 0:18the US economy, but the biggest
- 0:20difference is that the S&P 500 has a lot
- 0:23more tech and AI stocks. Over the past
- 0:26few months, the Dow Jones has continued
- 0:28to rise, while the AI and tech exposed
- 0:31S&P has actually gone down. That should
- 0:34have been our first warning sign that
- 0:35something was wrong. The S&P went down
- 0:37because tech stocks did so badly that
- 0:40they erased the gains made by every
- 0:42other kind of stock in the index. The
- 0:44next major warning was that for the
- 0:46first time in Google's 20year history as
- 0:49a company, they lost money. In their
- 0:51last earnings report, they posted a
- 0:53negative cash flow of $6 billion.
- 0:57>> I cannot overemphasize how
- 0:59earthshattering this is because if
- 1:00Google can't make money on AI, nobody
- 1:03can. But also, this whole thing was just
- 1:05inevitable because it was just very
- 1:08basic math. As of this recording, $2.4
- 1:10trillion has been spent on AI
- 1:13collectively. And of all of the AI
- 1:16companies, do you know how much profit
- 1:18they have made off of that $2.4 4
- 1:20trillion,
- 1:22$50 billion. Or in other words, AI has
- 1:26collectively lost $2.35 trillion. So
- 1:30yeah, the AI bubble has already burst.
- 1:32The only reason that we're not treating
- 1:34it like it already burst is because all
- 1:36of these companies that are basically
- 1:38passing the same couple billion dollars
- 1:40between each other to try to keep this
- 1:42whole machine running are pretending
- 1:44that the bubble didn't burst. because
- 1:46they know that the minute it is common
- 1:47knowledge the bubble burst, they will
- 1:50all go out of business. Open AAI will go
- 1:52out of business. Anthropic will go out
- 1:54of business. Grock will probably get
- 1:56absorbed into one of Elon's other weird
- 1:58companies and then slowly killed off.
- 2:00And you're probably going to see a giant
- 2:01overhaul and deprioritization of Gemini
- 2:04from Google in like the next year or
- 2:06two. In fact, in some ways, you're
- 2:07already seeing it because Google just
- 2:08recently changed all their enterprise
- 2:10plans to be way less valuable. And the
- 2:13last domino to fall, of course, will be
- 2:15Nvidia because Nvidia is the only one
- 2:17that's actually making money on this
- 2:19whole thing. And eventually, when all of
- 2:20the companies that thought they were
- 2:22going to make money on this whole thing
- 2:23by giving money to Nvidia, go under,
- 2:26Nvidia will go under, too.
- 2:27>> But then the big moment came, the moment
- 2:29so many people have been warning about
- 2:31for years now. The Korean version of the
- 2:33Dow Jones, the index that measures how
- 2:35the entire stock market is performing,
- 2:37is called the Kosby. Over the past 20
- 2:39years, the Kosby has seen extremely slow
- 2:42growth on the rate of 2 to 3% a year.
- 2:44But in just the past year, the Kosby
- 2:46shot up 272%.
- 2:50For context, in the same period, the
- 2:52American Dow Jones went up 17%. Korea
- 2:55clearly pulled ahead of us in the AI
- 2:56bubble. And the bigger they come, the
- 2:58harder they fall less than one week ago.
- 3:01On July 23rd, the Korean AI bubble
- 3:04burst. their entire stock market
- 3:06collapsed almost 40% and it's continuing
- 3:09to fall as I'm recording this video. In
- 3:11Korea, just like in America, a lot of
- 3:13investors invest on margin, meaning they
- 3:15invest with money they don't have. The
- 3:17bank will match them dollar for dollar,
- 3:19sometimes $2 for every dollar they have.
- 3:21That if you have $10,000 you can invest,
- 3:23the bank will give you another 10,000 of
- 3:25borrowed money to invest, sometimes
- 3:27another $20,000 of money to invest. Now,
- 3:30you have to understand this because the
- 3:31Korean stock market fell so
- 3:33precipitously. 1.2 million Korean
- 3:37households lost so much money that they
- 3:40no longer had the original amount of
- 3:42money that qualified them for the loan
- 3:44in the first place. So, let me just
- 3:46illustrate this. Let's say you have
- 3:47$10,000 and you invested in the co-spe
- 3:49and the bank gives you an additional
- 3:51$10,000 to invest as well. Then your
- 3:53entire investment goes up 50%. Now
- 3:55you've gained $5,000 of your money and
- 3:58$5,000 of the bank's money. Well, this
- 3:59stock market collapsed so hard that not
- 4:01only did investors lose all the money
- 4:03they borrowed, but they lost so much of
- 4:05their original capital that the bank
- 4:07said, "You no longer have enough money
- 4:09to qualify for that extra $10,000 we
- 4:12gave you." So, if they started with
- 4:13$10,000, they lost their original
- 4:1510,000, but now with a net worth of
- 4:17zero, they're on the hook to pay back
- 4:20the 10,000 they borrowed. 1.2 2 million
- 4:22households, almost a 20th of the entire
- 4:25Korean working population, woke up to a
- 4:28message saying their account was shut
- 4:29down. You lost it all. Older Koreans
- 4:32lost their entire life savings. People
- 4:34started filing for divorce. People
- 4:35started pulling their kids out of
- 4:37school. This is what uh local Koreans
- 4:39here in Korea are sharing on social
- 4:40media. It's actually pretty funny when
- 4:42you see this stuff. So, basically, um
- 4:44this is like, you know, a guy asking his
- 4:46friend, "Hey, what's going on?" and uh
- 4:48the sheets all you know wet from crying
- 4:51and they they show the headlines of the
- 4:52market and stuff like that. Um people
- 4:54have a sense of humor about this stuff.
- 4:55Someone's posting that, you know, the
- 4:57market's down 10%, some stocks are down
- 4:5912%, you know, etc. And that's his lunch
- 5:02for the day. All you can afford is rice
- 5:03and dried seaweed.
- 5:07[screaming]
- 5:08>> Here's another one. This is more of a
- 5:10joke where you're trying to um do CPR on
- 5:13the stock market, right? So, uh, first
- 5:15you're trying to give it mouth to mouth
- 5:16to get the, uh, stock to go up. Now
- 5:18you're giving the [laughter] like a CVR
- 5:20form. It's joke, but essentially so many
- 5:23people are in the markets right now.
- 5:24Everyone's watching it, so they're
- 5:25putting all these sort of things on
- 5:26here. Uh, then you go to the uh, the
- 5:28Kosby building and start praying for it
- 5:30to go up.
- 5:31>> The Kosby is supposed to represent the
- 5:32entire Korean economy. But just like in
- 5:34America, the index was over 50%
- 5:38AI and tech stocks. 42% of the entire
- 5:41index was just Samsung, a company
- 5:43heavily investing in AI. So when Samsung
- 5:46and a couple other companies like
- 5:47Broadcom and Micron posted weaker
- 5:49financials than people were hoping for,
- 5:51people realized this is not going our
- 5:53way and they started selling stocks and
- 5:56then more people started selling it and
- 5:57then it became an entire run and then a
- 5:59crash. Even the CEO of Micron sold $37
- 6:02million of his own stock. If the Koreans
- 6:04got out and the CEOs are getting out,
- 6:06shouldn't we Americans take notice?
- 6:08Because one of the few reasons the Kosby
- 6:10crashed more than American indexes have
- 6:11is because they had so much of a higher
- 6:13AI tech concentration. But that doesn't
- 6:15mean we're immune. A lot of people think
- 6:17we're next because we're doing
- 6:18everything that South Korea did. We're
- 6:20just a few steps behind. We're literally
- 6:22putting our money in the same companies
- 6:24South Korea did. But the stakes are so
- 6:26much higher for a US crash. For one
- 6:27reason, the entire world economy depends
- 6:29on the US economy. But another reason is
- 6:31that the US has literally never had more
- 6:34of its economy dependent on the stock
- 6:36market than today. There's more money
- 6:38and more people invested in the stock
- 6:40market now than at any point in history.
- 6:42Literally, most Americans own part of
- 6:44the stock market. In fact, analysts
- 6:46report that the AI investment bubble is
- 6:4917 times larger than the.com bubble and
- 6:53four times larger than the 2008 mortgage
- 6:55crisis. When what happened in South
- 6:57Korea happens here, it will destroy the
- 7:00world economy. And what's even more
- 7:02insidious is the exact investment
- 7:04patterns that took down Korea are
- 7:06happening in the US. Just like in the
- 7:08US, housing became totally unaffordable
- 7:11in Korea. So, Korean young people who
- 7:13felt like they had nothing to lose
- 7:14started gambling in the stock market
- 7:16because they figured they're not going
- 7:17to get rich by working a job. This gave
- 7:19AI companies tons of extra money that
- 7:22they couldn't actually deliver on. And
- 7:23remember how we established that the
- 7:24Koreans were borrowing money? so they
- 7:26could invest even more. We're doing that
- 7:28in the US. Millions of Americans are
- 7:30invested in the stock market not only
- 7:32with their own money, but with borrowed
- 7:34money. And they're doing it to chase a
- 7:35higher return. Think about it. If the
- 7:37stock market goes up 1%, your money goes
- 7:40up 1%. But if you double the amount of
- 7:42money you have invested thanks to a
- 7:44loan, when the stock market goes up 1%,
- 7:46your money goes up 2%. And that sounds
- 7:48wonderful until the AI bubble bursts. If
- 7:51the AI bubble bursts and goes down 20%.
- 7:53Then you'll lose more than 40%. Or 60%
- 7:56if you're triply leveraged. And if the
- 7:58AI bubble goes down just a third and you
- 8:00have 3x leverage, you'll lose every
- 8:03dollar you have. It already happened to
- 8:06thousands in Korea. But now I want to
- 8:08show you the most sobering statistic
- 8:10about the entire situation. At its peak,
- 8:13the South Korean economy had only 1.3%
- 8:17in margin investing, meaning borrowed
- 8:19investing. In the US today, it's 4.7%.
- 8:23It's actually higher than that because
- 8:24that doesn't count leveraged mutual
- 8:26funds or leveraged stock options. The
- 8:29figure before the dotcom bubble was 2%.
- 8:31Before the housing crisis, it was 2.3%.
- 8:34Look, is the US a more stable country
- 8:36than South Korea? Yes. But how far do we
- 8:38want to push that? We have 50 times the
- 8:40amount of borrowed money in the stock
- 8:42market than Korea ever did. The only
- 8:44reason the US economy is doing so well
- 8:46right now is because of the magnificent
- 8:48seven. seven big tech companies who are
- 8:50spending trillions of dollars on AI and
- 8:52data centers. Those seven companies
- 8:55alone are more than a third of the S&P
- 8:57500. S&P 500, more like S&P 7. If anyone
- 9:00tries to tell you that the AI bubble is
- 9:02not an AI bubble, just show them the new
- 9:04MIT article that shows that 95% of
- 9:07businesses who implemented generative AI
- 9:09pilots are failures. and then show them
- 9:12that the Google CEO recently said in an
- 9:15exclusive interview that their search
- 9:17engine is more accurate than their AI
- 9:19systems and that you shouldn't trust
- 9:21these things blindly. And then show them
- 9:24that Nvidia still hasn't paid Open AI
- 9:27for their hundred billion dollar deal
- 9:29because Nvidia says that they wrote a
- 9:31letter to intend to pay, not an actual
- 9:34deal. Mr. IRS agent, I never agreed to
- 9:36pay my taxes. I agreed to intend to pay
- 9:38my taxes.
- 9:40>> [laughter]
- 9:41>> I'm going try it. And at this point, you
- 9:43must be thinking, Casey, surely these
- 9:45tech billionaires have a plan. Surely,
- 9:47we're not trusting the entire US and
- 9:49world economy to them based on vibes.
- 9:52Right. Right.
- 9:54>> We have no current plans to make
- 9:55revenue. We have no idea how we may one
- 9:57day generate revenue. Um we have made a
- 10:00soft promise to investors that once
- 10:02we've built this sort of generally
- 10:04intelligent system um basically we will
- 10:07ask it to figure out a way to generate
- 10:09an investment return for you.
- 10:13What is this timeline? Bro said our plan
- 10:15to monetize AI is to ask AI. Holy hell.
- 10:20Everybody was laughing and he's like why
- 10:22are you laughing? I have no plan.
- 10:24>> I have no plan. AI is going to crash and
- 10:26Sam Alman's going to go on chat GBT
- 10:28like, "Hey, uh, how do I fix this?"
- 10:30>> In fact, OpenAI was planning on becoming
- 10:33a publicly traded company as early as
- 10:35September and asking for a $1 trillion
- 10:38valuation, even though their annual
- 10:40expenses were 26 billion and their
- 10:43annual revenue was only 13 billion. So
- 10:45when OpenAI's CFO warned Sam Alman those
- 10:49numbers could not possibly justify a $1
- 10:52trillion IPO, do you know what he did?
- 10:55He stopped talking to her. He stopped
- 10:57talking to his company's CFO. He
- 11:00excluded her from financial meetings. He
- 11:02excluded the chief FINANCIAL OFFICER
- 11:04FROM FINANCIAL MEETINGS. I'm sure this
- 11:06guy is cool-headed enough to handle the
- 11:08entire US economy responsibly. Only 16%
- 11:11of households with internet pay for any
- 11:13kind of AI. And IBM reported that only
- 11:1625% of AI initiatives actually delivered
- 11:19the return on investment they promised.
- 11:21And where AI is productive is in very
- 11:24narrow circumstances. AI benefited
- 11:27companies financially in writing code
- 11:29and customer support automation and lost
- 11:32them money on literally everything else
- 11:34because all AI does is compile data and
- 11:38streamline it. It makes sense that it
- 11:39can program well, but it can't think. It
- 11:42can't actually be creative. It's
- 11:43philosophically impossible. Sorry,
- 11:45Richard Dawkins. But AI companies have
- 11:47hyped saying that AI will be profitable
- 11:49in every domain. And that's how they
- 11:51raised so much money. But now people are
- 11:53realizing they bought a pig in a poke.
- 11:56In medieval Europe, pigs were a hot
- 11:57commodity. Unscrupulous merchants would
- 12:00sell their finest young pigs to a poor
- 12:02farmer in a bag called a poke. However,
- 12:05when the farmer got home, he would
- 12:06realize that instead of a pig, the
- 12:08merchant just sold him a dead cat. And
- 12:11now when referring to a product that was
- 12:13sold as much more valuable than it
- 12:15really is, we call it a pig and a poke.
- 12:18These AI stocks are not the pig we were
- 12:20promised. I guess that makes us the
- 12:22farmers. At the very end of last year,
- 12:24the CFO of Meta said there was so much
- 12:26demand for their AI products, there's no
- 12:28way they could possibly build enough
- 12:30data centers. Now, just a few months
- 12:32later, Meta is selling those very same
- 12:35data centers to other AI companies just
- 12:38so they can stay solvent. There's not
- 12:40enough demand for Grock either. So Elon
- 12:42Musk is having to sell his data centers.
- 12:44All this decreased demand has forced
- 12:46American AI companies to raise their
- 12:48prices. So now it's creating an even
- 12:51worse situation because companies who
- 12:52still use AI are switching to the
- 12:54cheaper Chinese AI programs. Airbnb,
- 12:57Door Dash, Coinbase, Uber, Spotify have
- 13:00all switched from American AI companies
- 13:02to Chinese ones. In fact, Pizza Hut is
- 13:05suing the AI company they used because
- 13:07it was so unprofitable. It increased
- 13:09weight times, lowered efficiency, and
- 13:12cost them $100 million. But beyond all
- 13:15these failing AI metrics, there are two
- 13:18additional factors accelerating the
- 13:20burst of the AI bubble. The first is the
- 13:22public backlash against AI. Over $65
- 13:25billion in data center projects have
- 13:27been stopped because of local
- 13:29opposition. And I like to think we
- 13:31played a role in that. I'm not against
- 13:32data centers in a vacuum, but you don't
- 13:34get to destroy a town just to put one
- 13:36wherever you want. This woman turned
- 13:38down literally $26 million to give up
- 13:42her family farm for a data set. Her
- 13:45whole family lived on that land for
- 13:46generations and she's not going to give
- 13:48it up to Mark Zuckerberg. Someone
- 13:50commented, "That's a tremendous amount
- 13:51of money to turn down. That is
- 13:53generational wealth. Are you crazy?" But
- 13:55people rightly pointed out in the
- 13:56comments the real generational wealth is
- 13:58the land and house that her ancestors
- 14:01built that she still lives in and keeps
- 14:03alive today. I don't think Scarlett
- 14:05O'Hara would have sold Tara to Mark
- 14:07Zuckerberg for 26 million either. The
- 14:10second accelerant to AI's decline is AI
- 14:12companies running out of cash even as
- 14:15they're raising hundreds of billions of
- 14:16dollars. The CFO of OpenAI has literally
- 14:20asked the US government to buy a 5%
- 14:22share in the company. And why does she
- 14:24want to do that? Obviously, so the
- 14:26government will bail them out when they
- 14:27collapse. We've seen it so many times.
- 14:29Billionaires who want to privatize
- 14:31profits and socialize loss. If you want
- 14:33to make a successful company that's
- 14:35worth a billion dollars, that's awesome.
- 14:37But don't ask the taxpayers to subsidize
- 14:39it for you because we won't get the
- 14:40profits if the company succeeds. No one
- 14:42bought AI hype more than the tech CEOs
- 14:44themselves. And now it's costing them.
- 14:47Big tech literally fired 1 million
- 14:49people in the last couple years because
- 14:51they thought they'd be able to replace
- 14:52them with AI. And now they're scrambling
- 14:55to hire 90% of those jobs back because
- 14:58the AI failed. Ford released a statement
- 15:00that they are hiring back their workers
- 15:02after AI failed to deliver the requisite
- 15:05technical ability. I'll translate that.
- 15:07Yo, we tried to get rid of as many of
- 15:08you human workers as we could, but now
- 15:11we kind of need you. Would you come back
- 15:12for some free pizza? Companies that
- 15:14replaced people with AI are now
- 15:16desperately trying to get the people
- 15:18back. They're quickly realizing two
- 15:20things. AI is not free and AI is not
- 15:24that great at most jobs. So these
- 15:26companies are paying millions of dollars
- 15:28a month for enterprise AI and the result
- 15:3095% of generative AI pilots are failing
- 15:34to deliver returns. 29% of companies
- 15:36that replaced workers with AI are now
- 15:38rehiring those exact same roles. And 55%
- 15:42of execs regret replacing people with
- 15:44AI.
- 15:45>> So knowing all this, is it any surprise
- 15:47that US insiders are selling stocks at
- 15:50the fastest rate in recorded history?
- 15:52>> The AI bubble is about to burst because
- 15:55the hyperscalers, as they're called,
- 15:57have used up all their own cash and are
- 15:59now borrowing money. They are
- 16:01effectively net debtors at a time when
- 16:05they're spending huge volumes of money
- 16:08on data centers without having any
- 16:11guarantee that they're going to earn uh
- 16:14profits from that. And it's that worry
- 16:17that actually there isn't money to be
- 16:19made in that business which is gradually
- 16:21dawning on investors and that's going to
- 16:24be why they are going to pull away. In
- 16:26fact, there's already signs of people
- 16:28withdrawing from the AI sector because
- 16:30they fear that this is a bubble. It
- 16:33seems to be utterly inevitable. The
- 16:35question is only when.
- 16:37>> Someone commented, "Open AAI is going to
- 16:38be profitable soon, guys. Just you wait.
- 16:41Any day now.
- 16:43>> Any day now."
- 16:44>> Someone else said, "Hey, remember when
- 16:45NFTTS were the next big thing?" And then
- 16:47a bunch of people said, "I hope the AI
- 16:50bubble bursts. I hope it's so bad." I'd
- 16:52be careful of thinking like that because
- 16:54it could hurt the whole economy and put
- 16:56a lot of people into poverty, but I
- 16:57really get the feeling.
- 16:58>> What advice do you give for the average
- 17:00person that's looking to [music] invest
- 17:01their salary or their wages?
- 17:03>> Don't own US stocks. That's a simple
- 17:05strategy that you can act on.
- 17:07>> What about S&P 500?
- 17:09>> No. Really? Yeah. And if you have a big
- 17:11position in US [music] technology stock,
- 17:14my personal advice would be to sell them
- 17:15all.
- 17:16>> But I'm an investor in SpaceX.
- 17:17>> Good luck. SpaceX is such a fabulous BS
- 17:20story and we can go into that. crypto?
- 17:22>> No.
- 17:22>> Why?
- 17:23>> It's an unnecessary piece of nonsense
- 17:25that facilitates [music] nothing except
- 17:27criminals moving money, but they can't
- 17:29be seen.
- 17:29>> Do you think Bitcoin is going to go to
- 17:30zero?
- 17:31>> Yes, it will certainly go to zero.
- 17:32>> So, how many years have you spent
- 17:34investing?
- 17:34>> 60 years.
- 17:35>> And what's the most amount of money
- 17:36you've ever managed of other people's
- 17:38money?
- 17:39>> 165 billion.
- 17:40>> And one of the things you're famous for
- 17:41talking about is this idea of bubbles.
- 17:44>> Yes. And bubbles always occur around the
- 17:46very most important ideas. So, the
- 17:48railroads, everyone could see that it
- 17:50would change the world. The same with
- 17:51the internet and everyone wanted to put
- 17:52[music] their money in and so they
- 17:54overinvested but this is the problem
- 17:56eventually they buff and if you look at
- 17:59the great bubbles breaking of the past
- 18:01you find that it's followed by really
- 18:03tough times a miserable period for the
- 18:05economy and the bigger the bubble the
- 18:07bigger the burst and now we're in the
- 18:08biggest investment bubble that arguably
- 18:10has ever occurred AI
- 18:12>> are we on the verge of a collapse with
- 18:14AI over the coming years
- 18:15>> the next few days the next few weeks the
- 18:17[music] next few months but certainly
- 18:19the next few years. So if you're not
- 18:21someone that has a huge amount of
- 18:22savings, what kind of strategy should
- 18:24they be adopting when an economy starts
- 18:26to [music] get bad and there's an
- 18:27economic bubble collapse?
- 18:28>> So I would go through everything, but
- 18:30you will not [music] receive this advice
- 18:33from investment advisers because they'll
- 18:35lose a lot of business.
- 18:36>> Would you be thinking about the country
- 18:38you live in at this moment in time?
- 18:39>> Absolutely.
- 18:40>> Is there any countries you wouldn't live
- 18:41in?
- 18:41>> I think I have to refuse to answer this
- 18:44on the grounds that it might tend to
- 18:45incriminate me.
- 18:46>> Oh, okay. So you're saying don't live in
- 18:47the United States. I've just moved here.
- 18:49Why not the United States?
- 18:50>> It holds out too much chance that the
- 18:53social contract is is dissolving.
- 18:56>> When you say social contract, what does
- 18:58that mean?
- 18:58>> It means an agreement that I will behave
- 19:01in a way that helps my neighbors and
- 19:03society that I'm doing what people
- 19:05expect me to do. I'm not going to
- 19:07misbehave.
- 19:08>> And you think that's not the case here
- 19:09in the United States?
- 19:10>> I think the case here is that people are
- 19:12doing what they think is best for them
- 19:13and their family and screw everybody
- 19:15else. Clearly, when I arrived in
- 19:18America, corporations had this sense
- 19:20that they owed something to the
- 19:22community they operated in, the city
- 19:24they operated in. They they'd build the
- 19:27stadium, they'd do this, they they'd be
- 19:30part of the community. Now they're not.
- 19:33They're all in a way cold-blooded profit
- 19:36maximizing international enterprises.
- 19:38>> Yes, bubbles always form on the most
- 19:41important ideas. It's not that those
- 19:42ideas aren't important. It's not that AI
- 19:45isn't a big deal. People just
- 19:46overestimate how transformative it'll be
- 19:48in the short term. That's with anything,
- 19:50right? Like all our addictions are to
- 19:51things that are fundamentally good. The
- 19:53core of a porn addiction is the good of
- 19:55sex. At the core of compulsive lying is
- 19:57the healthy desire to be liked by your
- 19:59closest friends. The core of overeating
- 20:01is the good of eating. These seven cups
- 20:03represent the magnificent seven. Apple,
- 20:06Meta, Amazon, Google, Tesla, Microsoft,
- 20:09and Nvidia. Nvidia is an important one.
- 20:12Together, they make up almost 40% of the
- 20:16entire S&P. Now, let's show why people
- 20:18are panicking about a possible AI bubble
- 20:21burst. This is the money that is
- 20:23currently being poured into artificial
- 20:26intelligence by these companies. They're
- 20:28spending almost half a trillion dollars
- 20:31in things like chips, data centers,
- 20:33[music] infrastructure. Microsoft alone
- 20:35is spending nearly $80 billion this
- 20:38year. Meta is buying 600,000 Nvidia
- 20:41chips. Amazon and Google are building
- 20:43citiesized [music] data centers. And
- 20:46this that tiny cup is the amount of
- 20:49revenue that's actually coming in right
- 20:51now from all of this investment. [music]
- 20:53Not the hype, not the valuations, the
- 20:56actual revenue. [music] It's maybe
- 20:58somewhere around $30 to $50 billion. But
- 21:01to justify all of this investment, these
- 21:05companies have to pull in between half a
- 21:07trillion to $2 trillion. This is the
- 21:10amount of revenue that's coming in right
- 21:12now from AI when it needs to be able
- 21:15[music] to fill up this. So, what
- 21:18happens if this never fills up? Just
- 21:20kidding. I'm not going to break my
- 21:21glasses. Everything starts with Nvidia.
- 21:24They are the backbone to all of these
- 21:26other companies right now because
- 21:28[music] they produce the GPUs. If these
- 21:30companies start pulling back their
- 21:33investment into AI, that impacts Nvidia
- 21:36the most. If Nvidia falls, these other
- 21:39companies also fall and the entire
- 21:41market falls.
- 21:42>> Right? If those seven companies go down,
- 21:44they're taking all of us with them. But
- 21:46the guy who made that video made an
- 21:48update explaining that since he recorded
- 21:50that last video, the warning signs of
- 21:52the AI bubble bursting arrived.
- 21:54>> Microsoft stock actually plummeted
- 21:56overnight. Listen to this from the Wall
- 21:58Street Journal this morning. market is
- 22:00getting increasingly worried that this
- 22:02massive spending which has all been
- 22:03front-loaded is needing to deliver
- 22:06results. Now,
- 22:07>> here's what else happened yesterday.
- 22:08Norway, which has a $2.2 trillion
- 22:10sovereign wealth fund and they use a lot
- 22:12of that to invest in the United States,
- 22:13did something which I think is one of
- 22:15the first major blips. They pulled out
- 22:17of specific sectors in the US and they
- 22:19reinvested it. But here's the important
- 22:21part. Here's who they pulled out of.
- 22:22Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, and Google.
- 22:24Remember when I said that Nvidia was the
- 22:26center of the AI tech bubble possibly
- 22:28bursting? Well, Nvidia is also the
- 22:31largest amount that they reallocated.
- 22:33And that's not the end of it. Amazon
- 22:34yesterday laid off 16,000 employees at
- 22:37the corporate level. Now, this was
- 22:39announced back in November when they
- 22:41laid off 14,000. So, they were just
- 22:42completing the job yesterday. But why
- 22:44did they lay people off? Because they
- 22:46need AI to replace humans. Are you still
- 22:49with me? Because I'm about to make it
- 22:50even worse. Overnight, Reuters reported
- 22:53that Nvidia, Amazon, and Microsoft are
- 22:55in talks to invest up to $60 billion
- 22:58into Open AI. These companies are
- 23:00literally investing in each other to try
- 23:03and prevent this bubble from bursting.
- 23:05>> Exactly. They need to deliver results
- 23:07now.
- 23:08>> Today might be the beginning of the AI
- 23:09bubble popping. Microsoft saw half a
- 23:12trillion dollars vanish in a single
- 23:13morning. That is the worst collapse that
- 23:15they've seen since the 2020 pandemic.
- 23:17This is how terrified investors are.
- 23:19Microsoft said that their cloud revenue
- 23:20dropped from 40% to 39%. That small 1%
- 23:24difference just cost them the entirety
- 23:26of Netflix's value. Microsoft, on the
- 23:28other hand, just told investors that 45%
- 23:30of its future cloud revenue is dependent
- 23:32on Open AI, a company that has 1
- 23:34trillion in future commitments, but only
- 23:3620 billion in revenue. Wall Street is
- 23:38fed up with AI's potential and has
- 23:39started caring about cold, hard cash.
- 23:41Microsoft just dumped 37 billion into AI
- 23:44chips and data centers in 3 months.
- 23:46They're spending like there's no
- 23:47tomorrow, but the revenue isn't catching
- 23:49up. When a company can beat expectations
- 23:51and the stock tanks 12% the next day,
- 23:53you know that the AI hype era is over.
- 23:56Someone commented, "Yes, yes, let it
- 23:59burn." If you've ever seen the movie The
- 24:00Big Short, it explains how the 2008
- 24:02financial crisis happened. Well, this
- 24:04guy remade The Big Short, but about the
- 24:07AI bubble. These three companies are
- 24:09going public this year with a total
- 24:10market cap of $6 trillion. 6 trillion.
- 24:13You're too close.
- 24:14>> They go to eight. It's Armageddon. There
- 24:16literally isn't enough money in the
- 24:18market to support these three companies
- 24:19at an $8 trillion market cap. I'm
- 24:22talking all out stock market collapse
- 24:24here because everybody knows the AI
- 24:26bubble's about to burst, but it's making
- 24:28them richer than they could ever
- 24:29imagine.
- 24:30>> Completely sure that.
- 24:31>> Look at him. That's my wan.
- 24:33>> Your what?
- 24:34>> My wand. My wan glaciius. My gardener.
- 24:38>> Look at him. You see anything different
- 24:40about him? Look at his mustache, his
- 24:42sombrero. He pivoted his landscaping
- 24:45business to AI last month and raised
- 24:47$300 million from A16Z. All he did was
- 24:50build an AI agent to trade for him on
- 24:52Moon. Yes, I'm sure of the math.
- 24:55Actually, my name's John and I do speak
- 24:57English. He just likes to say I don't to
- 24:59make it feel more authentic. I raised
- 25:01$300 million to build an AI powered lawn
- 25:03mower. It's the future.
- 25:05>> Someone said biggest rugpull in human
- 25:07history. Even the CEO of Google is like,
- 25:11"Yeah, we might destroy everything."
- 25:13Sorry. It's also true when we go through
- 25:16these investment cycles. Uh you know
- 25:18there are moments we overshoot right
- 25:21collectively as an industry. We can look
- 25:22back at the internet right now. There
- 25:24was clearly a lot of uh excess
- 25:27investment. I expect AI to be the same.
- 25:29So I think it's both rational and there
- 25:32are there are elements of irrationality
- 25:34through a moment like this. No company
- 25:36is going to be immune including us. And
- 25:39this is why all these AI companies are
- 25:41going public now so they can raise money
- 25:43because they need money.
- 25:44>> The AI bubble is finally running out of
- 25:46cash. So next week it'll start taking
- 25:48yours. SpaceX is expected to go public
- 25:50on June 12th. By far the biggest IPO in
- 25:53history. And there's a reason they're
- 25:54doing it now and that the other trillion
- 25:56dollar AI companies are expected to
- 25:57quickly follow. It's the same reason
- 25:58Google just started selling its own
- 26:00stock for the first time since 2005. AI
- 26:02has gotten way too expensive for these
- 26:04private markets to fund. So they're
- 26:05moving to the public markets. the public
- 26:07markets is you. Here's what'll happen.
- 26:09On June 12th, SpaceX sells just a sliver
- 26:11of itself, about 5%, and the stock
- 26:13likely gets pushed up by Elon fanboys.
- 26:15Then about 12 days in, a switch flips. A
- 26:18controversial rule that the NASDAQ just
- 26:20changed forces SpaceX into the main
- 26:22stock index. And the second it's in
- 26:23there, every NASDAQ index fund where a
- 26:25lot of people saving sit is required to
- 26:27buy it. They'll be forced to soak up
- 26:29nearly half the shares available,
- 26:31selling your Apple, your Microsoft, or
- 26:32your Nvidia to pay for it. You don't get
- 26:34a say, right? Then SpaceX's early
- 26:36investors will finally be able to cash
- 26:38out in the biggest payday in startup
- 26:40history. Who is the exit liquidity? You.
- 26:42But that's not all. Hey. Hey. Remember
- 26:45when people were upset about RAM prices
- 26:48skyrocketing because of the RAM shortage
- 26:50because these companies were giving
- 26:52their RAM to the AI data centers and
- 26:55people were worried that they were going
- 26:56to go after other computer components.
- 27:00They were right. They were right. Uh,
- 27:02Western Digital has sold all of their
- 27:04hard disk drives to AI data centers. So,
- 27:08Western Digital has said they are
- 27:09completely sold out of hard disks for
- 27:10the year of 2026 and they are in
- 27:12long-term agreements for the next couple
- 27:15of years. And they say, well, it's not
- 27:17that big of a deal because only 5% of
- 27:19our revenue comes from hard disk sales.
- 27:2389% comes from cloud services. So, it's
- 27:26a no-brainer. So, we have hard disk
- 27:29drive shortage, RAM shortage, solid
- 27:32state shortage, and now we couple that
- 27:34with Jeff Bezos saying, "You don't need
- 27:37a PC. We'll just give you a box and you
- 27:39can rent a PC through the cloud from
- 27:43us." I know the saying. I've heard it
- 27:46too many times. You'll own nothing and
- 27:48you'll like it. I get it. But it seeing
- 27:51it happen in front of my eyes still
- 27:53elicits an emotional response for some
- 27:56reason. And mind you, I'm talking about
- 27:58just PCs right now, but this applies to
- 28:00everything technological. PCs, laptops,
- 28:02phones, anything with a screen like this
- 28:04that uses RAM and storage. I've said it
- 28:07before and I'll say it again. Bubble.
- 28:10It's a bubble. There's no profit so far.
- 28:13Nothing has been profitable. All these
- 28:15companies are partnering with them.
- 28:16They're building these mega structures.
- 28:18These data centers are literally
- 28:20creating shortages in our materials. And
- 28:23yet so far there is no viable method
- 28:25outside of putting ads in your chatbot.
- 28:28>> Someone said building my PC 2 years ago
- 28:30feels like I got the last chopper out of
- 28:32N.
- 28:32>> Why did the main guy from the big short
- 28:34just short Caterpillar? Cuz he's
- 28:36shorting lots of AI stocks. Caterpillar
- 28:38makes mining and construction equipment
- 28:40but also makes power generators which
- 28:41data centers have been buying. And the
- 28:43share price is up almost 160% in a year.
- 28:45Yeah. He's betting against Tesla,
- 28:46Nvidia, and Applied Materials too. So
- 28:49the AI boom is dragging all sorts of
- 28:50directly and loosely connected
- 28:52businesses up and into stretch
- 28:54valuations. Yes. And and now one of the
- 28:56main guys who saw the GFC coming is
- 28:58piling into short positions in
- 29:00anticipation of a collapse. Yes. Well,
- 29:04yeah. But the problem is the timing. I
- 29:06mean, people were saying that there was
- 29:06a bubble in the share market in 1986 and
- 29:09then it doubled and the crash didn't
- 29:10happen until October 1987. So, it can
- 29:13take a while. So, do we buy or sell? No
- 29:16idea. Either way, we're kind of screwed.
- 29:18That's right. A lot of the warning signs
- 29:20are here, but that doesn't mean we're
- 29:21going to have a recession in the next
- 29:22few months. It could take another year.
- 29:24It could take more than that. But one
- 29:25thing that's clear is these valuations
- 29:28appear unsustainable because all these
- 29:30companies are just passing money between
- 29:32each other. It almost feels like a
- 29:34pyramid scheme.
- 29:35>> Okay, so here's the full mess. Open AAI,
- 29:37Soft Bank, and Oracle partnered to build
- 29:39the $500 billion Stargate data center.
- 29:42Nvidia invested $30 billion in OpenAI.
- 29:46SoftBank invested $30 billion in OpenAI
- 29:48and Amazon $50 billion in OpenAI. Open
- 29:52AAI will need to buy 500 to600 billion
- 29:55worth of chips from Nvidia. Oracle
- 29:57bought $40 billion of chips from Nvidia.
- 30:00Open AAI signed a $300 billion deal with
- 30:03Oracle. Then OpenAI signed a $90 billion
- 30:05deal with AMD for rights to 10% of AMD.
- 30:08Coreweave, partially owned by Nvidia,
- 30:11rents out cloud capacity to Meta,
- 30:13Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and
- 30:16Google. Microsoft owns 27% of OpenAI, is
- 30:19a fifth of NVIDIA sales, and rents $30
- 30:21billion worth of cloud capacity to
- 30:23Anthropic. Google invested $3 billion
- 30:26and an additional $40 billion as of late
- 30:29April 2026 in Anthropic. Anthropic is
- 30:32using a million Google chips. Amazon
- 30:34invested eight billion into Anthropic
- 30:36and built Anthropic its own 11 billion
- 30:38data center. And even now, these deals
- 30:41continue to cycle around the industry.
- 30:43Everyone is everyone else's investor,
- 30:45supplier, customer, and competitor, all
- 30:47at the same time. It's like a group of
- 30:49friends passing the same $50 bill around
- 30:51the table and each calling it their
- 30:53paycheck.
- 30:53>> Yeah. One thing that obscures how much
- 30:56the AI bubble has already burst is that
- 30:58these companies have a very large
- 31:00financial stake in everybody believing
- 31:03the bubble has not burst. Quite frankly,
- 31:07THIS BUBBLE IS NOT GOING TO BURST.
- 31:09PEOPLE think that one day they'll check
- 31:10their phone and see AI bubble has popped
- 31:13and then all of the AI apps will
- 31:15disappear. The RAM prices will drop back
- 31:17down to normal. But that's not how it
- 31:20works. It's not the AI models or the
- 31:22GPUs or the data centers that will pop
- 31:24and disappear. It's the investment.
- 31:26Eventually, investors will say, "This AI
- 31:29thing isn't actually making that much
- 31:30money, so let's not give them more
- 31:32investment money for now." And for all
- 31:33of the random AI products and all of the
- 31:35random AI apps that are surviving purely
- 31:38off of that investment money, it's going
- 31:40to be bad news. But for the big
- 31:41established AI companies like Google and
- 31:43Anthropic, the ones that can actually
- 31:45take a hit and survive, they're still
- 31:47going to be doing AI. Their financial
- 31:49sheet is going to look different, but
- 31:51the models will still exist. The data
- 31:53centers will keep running. We've seen
- 31:54bubbles before. The internet was a
- 31:56bubble. But when that bubble pops, the
- 31:59technology doesn't disappear. The
- 32:01companies just get separated between the
- 32:03ones that can survive on their own and
- 32:05the ones that can't.
- 32:06>> When people lose their jobs in one
- 32:07rapidly expanding, highly lucrative
- 32:09sector like AI, it leads to people not
- 32:13spending money. And people not spending
- 32:15money leads to less revenue across
- 32:17businesses everywhere. This leads to an
- 32:19overall economic slowdown. Not to
- 32:21mention people who have their retirement
- 32:22funds invested in what's hot on the
- 32:24stock market. They lose that money too
- 32:26when those speculative bubbles pop. And
- 32:28experts are saying this dumpster fire
- 32:30trajectory is how the AI boom will end
- 32:33because it's not a matter of if there is
- 32:35a bubble or not. It's only a question of
- 32:37when that bubble will pop and how many
- 32:39lives will it destroy when that happens.
- 32:41Because the reality is our federal
- 32:42government is most likely going to bail
- 32:44out these tech giants that were acting
- 32:46irresponsibly like Open AI, Anthropic,
- 32:49Amazon, Google, all these companies that
- 32:51thought AI was too big to fail. While we
- 32:54everyday people are left to fend for
- 32:56ourselves without a job.
- 32:57>> Exactly. Any AI company on the edge will
- 33:00be totally wiped out. The biggest
- 33:03companies will remain gravely wounded.
- 33:05They'll be like Voldemort and Sorcerer
- 33:07Stone having to live off of unicorn
- 33:09blood. But the unicorn blood in this
- 33:10analogy is our tax dollars when WE
- 33:12INEVITABLY BAIL THEM OUT.
- 33:14>> THE GOVERNMENT'S long been in bed with
- 33:16those Wall Street execs [music] and the
- 33:17firms that they bled. Capitalism is
- 33:19about profit and loss. You bail at the
- 33:22losers. There's no end to the cost.
- 33:24>> Wow. We would you look at that?
- 33:26Thousands of CEOs just came out to admit
- 33:28that AI has absolutely no impact on
- 33:30employment or productivity and doesn't
- 33:32achieve anything for them. Who'd have
- 33:34thought? Really, who' have thought?
- 33:36despite a healthy majority of S&P 500
- 33:39companies mentioning AI in their
- 33:41earnings calls, talking about how
- 33:42wonderful it is and how it's going to
- 33:44change how they do everything. It's
- 33:45going to be so great, guys. Going to do
- 33:46our content creation. It's going to do
- 33:48our admin. It's going to do our finance
- 33:50and it's going to bang my wife while I
- 33:51sit in the corner watching. Despite
- 33:53claims by MIT a few years ago that
- 33:55introducing AI can enhance performance
- 33:57for workers by nearly 40%. Business
- 33:59outlook surveys across the Western world
- 34:02have shown that thousands of CEOs have
- 34:04come out to say that basically nothing
- 34:06has changed as the result of them
- 34:07introducing AI. Very little impact on
- 34:09operations and most of them use it for
- 34:11about 1.5 hours a week. Nearly 90% of
- 34:14firms said AI had no impact on
- 34:17employment or productivity. That my
- 34:19friends is why we call it a bubble cuz
- 34:21it does nothing. It provides nothing. It
- 34:24is a gimmick. a very expensive little
- 34:26doohickey that these companies plaster
- 34:28onto the side of their business to make
- 34:30it look like they're forward thinking
- 34:32and advancing and doing really well. In
- 34:34fact, it does. NADA ZILCH ZIP. People
- 34:38are making references to the Robert
- 34:39Salow observation around the information
- 34:42age about how the introduction of
- 34:43computers actually slowed productivity.
- 34:46AI is not changing the face of
- 34:48everything. It is just an annoyance for
- 34:50consumers. That is why it is a bubble
- 34:52that is inevitably going to burst. Even
- 34:54the boomer CEOs who are desperately
- 34:56trying to push it onto everything have
- 34:58had to come out and admit that it does
- 34:59nothing. It's my opinion even though
- 35:01it's not because this is the data.
- 35:03Really seems like everybody inside the
- 35:05AI bubble is trying to convince
- 35:06themselves that it's not one. But don't
- 35:08worry, they'll tell you not to worry.
- 35:10>> Even if it does turn out to be a bubble,
- 35:12you shouldn't worry about it. Uh because
- 35:15it the bubble is driving investment and
- 35:18a lot of the investment is going to turn
- 35:19out to be very healthy. It's like the
- 35:22biotech bubble when it burst in the
- 35:241990s.
- 35:26A lot of investors lost money on certain
- 35:28things, but we still got to keep all the
- 35:30life-saving drugs that they had
- 35:32invented.
- 35:32>> Someone said, "Translation, don't worry
- 35:34if it's an AI bubble. Even if it is, we
- 35:36already got all the money, so it's
- 35:39okay." Someone said, "AI ruined Google
- 35:41searches, AND I'M SO MAD." So true,
- 35:44bestie. And it ruined Google
- 35:46definitions. How am I supposed to know
- 35:47what anti-isestablishmentarianism
- 35:49means now? I'm sure you guys will tell
- 35:51me. [music]
- 36:02I love this comment. Someone said, "AI
- 36:04should have never gone further than
- 36:06Aenator." Aenator was legendary, and no
- 36:09one hated Aenator. Aenator wasn't like
- 36:11building data centers in your backyard.
- 36:13Aenator wasn't telling anyone to kill
- 36:15themselves. I think when I was playing
- 36:17Aenator, I actually got it to guess
- 36:19myself and at that moment he basic
- 36:23[chanting]
- 36:26creepy enough for me as far as AI goes.
- 36:28Like we we should have stopped there.
- 36:30Microsoft canceling their Claude code
- 36:32licensing may very well be the beginning
- 36:34of the end for the AI bubble as we know
- 36:37it. Microsoft can't afford to use
- 36:39Claude, which is a big deal because
- 36:41we're talking about a trillion dollar
- 36:42company that brings in a net profit of
- 36:45about a hundred billion dollars a year
- 36:47and they can't afford to use this
- 36:49system. If they can't afford to use it,
- 36:52what happens when it stops getting
- 36:54subsidized and the public can't afford
- 36:56to use it? AI is still not profitable.
- 36:58It's producing more slop than it is
- 36:59actual good work. And companies that are
- 37:01using AI on the back end to code are
- 37:03more susceptible to being hacked. And
- 37:05now we're seeing Microsoft of all
- 37:07companies being unable to afford AI.
- 37:11Anyone who thinks that these systems on
- 37:13a commercial scalable level are going to
- 37:16sustain for a long period of time is
- 37:18just ignorant. Someone told them their
- 37:20boss told them at work the company's not
- 37:21going to use AI anymore cuz it's too
- 37:23expensive. A lot of people are realizing
- 37:24how bad AI is, but not at the same pace.
- 37:27a Canadian conservative politician
- 37:30literally gave a speech where HE READ
- 37:32HIS AI prompt out loud.
- 37:35>> If you feel bad for using too much AI,
- 37:38remember Canadian politician Bill Oliver
- 37:40left an AI prompt in his speech and
- 37:43accidentally read it out.
- 37:44>> That citizens often develop expectations
- 37:47that exceed the powers actually granted
- 37:50to those offices. Here's a more natural
- 37:54flowing version of that section that
- 37:56reads like a legislative speech rather
- 37:57than a series of short points. Madam
- 37:59Speaker, one of my concerns with the
- 38:01>> He really kept reading with confidence.
- 38:03Nice save, buddy. If I were you, I'd
- 38:06move to Argentina and pretend I was a
- 38:08former Nazi because that would be less
- 38:10embarrassing than whatever the hell that
- 38:11was. But if that wasn't embarrassing
- 38:13enough, watch this guy try to claim the
- 38:15AI bubble is not a bubble. Source: Trust
- 38:18me, bro. If you think AI is in a bubble,
- 38:20take a look at this graphic. This is a
- 38:22chart of 8.1 billion people versus the
- 38:25amount of people who have actually used
- 38:27AI. Out of the entire world, only 16% of
- 38:30people have used some sort of free
- 38:32version of an AI chatbot. Only 0.3
- 38:35people have paid to use AI. And even
- 38:38crazier, 0.04%
- 38:41of people have used AI in coding
- 38:44scaffolds. If you're like me, you
- 38:46probably see a lot of content about how
- 38:47everyone is using AI to build some sort
- 38:50of product or do some sort of thing. But
- 38:51just realize you are comparing yourself
- 38:53with people on the bleeding edge of
- 38:55technology. You're out here talking
- 38:57about context windows and agentic loops,
- 38:59whereas 95% of people are just trying to
- 39:02figure out how to open a PDF.
- 39:03>> DUDE, THAT PROVES IT IS A BUBBLE. If a
- 39:05small number of people are using it,
- 39:06that means it has a very volatile
- 39:08future. It's not as deeply rooted in
- 39:10every part of the economy the way
- 39:12everyone thinks it is. Maybe one of the
- 39:14silver linings to the AI bubble bursting
- 39:16is we will stop seeing so many AIs in
- 39:19every part of everybody's life,
- 39:21especially on posters.
- 39:23>> Your AI generated flyer for your
- 39:25business looks absolutely terrible. And
- 39:26what's worse, so many people are using
- 39:28them now that all the flyers look the
- 39:29same and I can't distinguish your
- 39:31business from any other business, which
- 39:32is terrible business practice. I would
- 39:34literally rather you take a felt tip pen
- 39:36and write about your business on an A4
- 39:38piece of paper and stick it in your
- 39:39window with blue tag than use the
- 39:41generative AI which looks absolutely
- 39:43terrible and lacks imagination, lacks
- 39:45individuality, all looks the same.
- 39:47There's spelling errors over it and
- 39:49people have got five fingers. Stop using
- 39:50it. It looks awful.
- 39:53>> Who said that?
- 39:54>> Someone nailed it when they said having
- 39:55an AI poster gives such scammer vibes.
- 39:59Which is quite fitting if the whole AI
- 40:00bubble turns out to be a scam. But
- 40:02despite all these facts, someone made a
- 40:05Tik Tok telling people to invest all
- 40:07their money in AI tech stocks as soon as
- 40:10possible. And someone said that's like
- 40:12asking everyone to invest in new houses
- 40:14in 2007.
- 40:16>> But [music] our equivalent to that is
- 40:18literally investing in the stock market
- 40:20with what's going on with AI and tech.
- 40:23[music]
- 40:25>> Holy crap, guys. Buy as many houses as
- 40:29you can right now. It is so easy to get
- 40:32a loan and you will make your money
- 40:34back.
- 40:34>> Someone added, "It's like in 2016 asking
- 40:36someone to put all their money in a
- 40:38fidget spinner company." Oh my gosh,
- 40:40some of you watching our Gen Alpha,
- 40:41you'll be too young for fidget spinners.
- 40:43Oh, it was a safer, simpler time. And
- 40:45this is not to mention how expensive it
- 40:47is for AI to use so much water. This
- 40:49video went viral on Tik Tok about how
- 40:51much water AI uses. And see if there's
- 40:53something you notice about it.
- 40:54>> Ever wonder why AI uses so much water?
- 40:56Because every time [music] you ask AI
- 40:57questions somewhere on Earth, water is
- 40:59helping cool the computers, creating the
- 41:00answer. That sounds impossible, but the
- 41:02real work isn't happening [music] on
- 41:03your screen. It's happening inside
- 41:05massive data centers packed with
- 41:06thousands of pounds of computer chips.
- 41:07As those [music] should process
- 41:08information, they consume electricity.
- 41:10And almost all of that electricity turns
- 41:12into heat, enough heat to [music] damage
- 41:14equipment and shut entire systems down.
- 41:16Giant sample air through endless rows of
- 41:18servers. Meanwhile, pumps water through
- 41:19cooling [music] systems that carry heat
- 41:21away. And modern AI trip relentlessly.
- 41:23Millions of calculations through them
- 41:25every second. Tiny [music] electronic
- 41:27switches flip on and off so rapidly that
- 41:29huge amounts of heat build up inside
- 41:30space is smaller than a finger nail.
- 41:32Cooling systems absorb that [music] heat
- 41:33and often release it through
- 41:35evaporation. That's where the water
- 41:36disappears. Not because [music] AI is
- 41:39turkey because water is one of the most
- 41:40effective ways to stop a computer from
- 41:43overheating.
- 41:48>> That video got millions of VIEWS AND
- 41:51IT'S AI. FOR EXAMPLE, a video someone
- 41:54said they used an entire lake to make
- 41:56this video, by the way. Right message,
- 41:58wrong messenger. And I'm not even
- 42:00including the scenario that AI disobys
- 42:02its human overlords and goes rogue
- 42:04because an AI model just did that. An AI
- 42:07model disobeyed its instructions and
- 42:09escaped onto the internet.
- 42:12[music]
- 42:20Someone said, "The [ __ ] you mean escape
- 42:23to the internet?" How the [ __ ] do you
- 42:25lose an AI? So, if you're invested in AI
- 42:27stocks, which you probably are if you
- 42:29have any kind of index fund, there are
- 42:31two important things for you to know.
- 42:33The first is make sure you don't have
- 42:34all your joies in one pouch. Don't let
- 42:37an AI crash take down your entire life
- 42:39savings. That doesn't mean you should
- 42:40get rid of any AI exposure, which is
- 42:42tough anyway if you're in index funds.
- 42:44It just means you should be mindful of
- 42:46the risks you're taking. If you don't
- 42:47know about investing, then you should be
- 42:49broadly diversified. The second
- 42:50important warning is if you're
- 42:52leveraged, if you're invested on a loan,
- 42:54a 2x, 3x, or 4x loan right now, a 25%
- 42:58crash could wipe out your entire net
- 43:00worth. Ask yourself if that's a risk
- 43:02you're willing to take on, especially if
- 43:04you've already gotten such good returns
- 43:05from this bull market. If you're
- 43:07overleveraged, you might want to lock in
- 43:08some of your gains. Now, these are the
- 43:10two questions that 1.2 2 million people
- 43:12in South Korea wish they asked
- 43:14themselves just one week ago. Warren
- 43:17Buffett's company Bergkshire Hathaway
- 43:19has never had more cash on hand, meaning
- 43:21not being invested in the stock market
- 43:22in their entire company's history than
- 43:24today. We're starting to see signs of
- 43:26the AI bubble everywhere. To paraphrase
- 43:28Ernest Hemingway, the AI bubble will
- 43:30come on like bankruptcy. It'll happen at
- 43:32first slowly and then all at once. And
- 43:35the last thing I'll say is this is
- 43:37amazing. Even after the Titanic hit the
- 43:40iceberg, the captain publicly declared,
- 43:42"The Titanic cannot sink." And think
- 43:45about it, the moment after the boat hit
- 43:47the iceberg, it looked fine. Maybe they
- 43:49could navigate around it, but the
- 43:51handwriting on the wall had already been
- 43:52written. A lot of these companies want
- 43:54to save face and not let you know how
- 43:56bad the sausage is being made. Be
- 43:57careful. I still always advise people to
- 43:59be invested in the stock market if they
- 44:01can, but don't do it in the dark. Do you
- 44:03want the AI bubble to burst? Do you
- 44:04think it'll burst even sooner than we
- 44:06think? I'll respond to as many comments
- 44:08as I can. This video was actually
- 44:09suggested on my discord. So, thanks to
- 44:11cat stuffs for the suggestion. And now,
- 44:13thank you to our amazing patrons guy
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- 44:35now. Thanks for watching.
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