Will the race to artificial general intelligence AGI lead us to a land of financial plenty – or will it end in a 2008 style bust? Trillions of dollars rest on the answer. The figures are staggering: an estimated $2.9tn £2.2tn being spent on datacentres , the central nervous systems of AI tools; the more than $4tn stock market capitalisation of Nvidia, the company that makes the chips powering cutting edge AI systems; and the $100m signing on bonuses offered by Mark Zuckerbergs Meta to top...
