{"id":14056,"date":"2026-01-05T05:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=14056"},"modified":"2026-01-05T05:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:34:13","slug":"is-a-i-actually-a-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/is-a-i-actually-a-bubble\/14056\/","title":{"rendered":"Is A.I. Actually a Bubble?"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published on\u00a0The New Yorker, December 12, 2025. The narrative of boom and bust is familiar\u2014but also out of step with the possibilities of a new technology. Over the past few months, I\u2019ve introduced artificial intelligence into the hobby life of my seven-year-old son, Peter. On Saturdays, he takes a coding class, in which he recently made a version of rock-paper-scissors, and he really wants to make more sophisticated games at home. I gave ChatGPT and Claude a sense of his skill level, and they instantaneously suggested next steps. \u2026 I was in college from 1998 to 2002, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/is-a-i-actually-a-bubble\/14056\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published on\u00a0The New Yorker, December 12, 2025. The narrative of boom and bust is familiar\u2014but also out of step with the possibilities of a new technology. Over the past few months, I\u2019ve introduced artificial intelligence into the hobby life of my seven-year-old son, Peter. On Saturdays, he takes a coding class, in which he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14057,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14056\/revisions\/14057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}