“While there may be companies "integrating AI" that are driving some degree of spend on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, I hypothesize a lot of this demand is driven by investor sentiment, with companies “investing in AI” to keep the markets happy rather than any cost/benefit analysis or actual utility.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
He hypothesizes that a lot of cloud demand from companies integrating AI is driven by investor sentiment, with companies investing in AI to keep markets happy rather than for cost/benefit or actual utility.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, The Subprime AI Crisis, paragraph 103.
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- I hypothesize (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
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- 2026-10-28.7
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: Where's Your Ed At, The Subprime AI Crisis
While there may be companies "integrating AI" that are driving some degree of spend on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, I hypothesize a lot of this demand is driven by investor sentiment, with companies “investing in AI” to keep the markets happy rather than any cost/benefit analysis or actual utility.
- Where
- paragraph 103
- Published
- 2024-09-16
- Source observed
- , live page
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- full text, public
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- Assessment wyea-subprimeai-8a4d0b-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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