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Global AI Server Shipment Forecasts See a Noticeable Decline Following Geopolitical Tensions & Tariff Uncertainty

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Maybe it could also have something to do with people not wanting AI rammed down their throats on every device, website and program they use.
- I wish this was true, but it seems to be more tied to polticial matters affecting supply chain.
Ludicrous amounts of money being pumped into a technology that has no practical purpose.
- I wouldn't go that far, both LLMs and other ML technologies clearly have novel use cases (unlike crypto where the only use cases are financial speculation and crime).
  The issue is that AI promoters/conmen are knowingly misrepresenting the capabilities of their services to benefit from pump and dumps (case in point Microsoft and OpenAI agreeing to define AGI as any service that gets $100 B in annual revenue).
  
  They're novelties for sure, but I see nothing but toy uses or things that be achieved by other, less wasteful, techniques.
  I assume by crypto you mean cryptocurrencies rather than any cryptography, because there's lots of valid uses for private communication.
- It has a lot of practical uses.

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