Is AI a Bubble? The Promise of AGI vs. Reality

As three techies who know more about AI than the typical person, we're often asked the question by friends around us if AI is a bubble... and we've hesitated to give a straight answer until now. We break down this topic not from a "should I buy the stock" angle, but from the perspective of people who work in tech and watch this thing unfold from the inside every day.We define what an economic bubble actually is (comparing it to previous bubbles like the housing crisis, dotcom collapse), look at exactly what promise AI companies are selling to get those trillion-dollar valuations, talk about why "artificial intelligence" is a branding choice and not just a descriptor, get into LLMs vs. world models and why leading researchers are already calling LLMs a dead end, and end up somewhere none of us expected — asking whether society is even structured to receive the value AGI would create.Chapters:0:00 Intro1:30 What is a Bubble?5:00 Bubbles in History (Housing Crisis + Dotcom)11:00 Is AI the Next Bubble?14:30 The Promise of AGI18:30 AI is a Branding Decision22:00 Measuring AI's ROI30:00 The Reality Gap40:00 AI and Human Society48:00 The Data Problem (Model Collapse)52:00 Final Thoughts✨Follow us on our socials!- Website: https://ragtechdev.com/- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ragtechdev/- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1KfM9JTWsDQ5QoMYEh489d- More Links: https://linktr.ee/ragtechdev