So 2025 has been an interesting year for AI – there is lots of talk of an AI financial bubble due to circular finance. AI that would prefer you not to turn it off (Although we have known about this sort of behavior since Lambda).
There is also talk of AI eating search – think about it with google, the AI slop is what appears first on you phone. That visual real-estate is the most valuable the average user has and now it’s AI’s turf (at least with google. Is AI eating googles cash cow)?
I also had an interesting interaction with a government employee who was using AI to come up with answers for a problem I had. The answers that he gave me via AI searching were wrong (Hint always go to the source document).
An observation from my own usage is that I think chat GPT is loosing the plot – Gemini is edging ahead but both need improvement (especially with regards esoteric and current information).
Spatial knowledge is going to be the next big thing, especially with regards robotics being linked to AI. Currently googling “robot fail” can be an entertaining distraction! But it’s interesting with Tesla cars and all that data they have been acquiring – what else might that information be used for.
Of course we should not forget the big elephant in the room that has not budged much (but it is lumbering towards the courts) This is the issue of copy right and financial compensation.
Oh yes and then there is the issue of power consumption.
But it’s not all bad news (well at least sort of) As a programmer and someone who likes to diagnose data the ability of AI to do “Stuff” is amazing and continues to get better.
The next year will be interesting because I think one or more of these issues will hit the “AI” industry at some point and we will see winners and losers. I like AI but it’s been getting sort of messy. How that pans out will be interesting.
Bubble
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_bubble
https://theconversation.com/yes-there-is-an-ai-investment-bubble-here-are-three-scenarios-for-how-it-could-end-269525
Don’t turn me off
https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openais-smartest-ai-model-was-explicitly-told-to-shut-down-and-it-refused
https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/ai-willing-to-let-humans-die-to-avoid-being-shut-down/news-story/97a87178c25bf418cc80fa3d9f282794
Eating search
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-10-15/how-business-adapt-google-pivot-ai-in-search/105867240
https://cacm.acm.org/news/is-ai-killing-search-and-seo/
Copyright
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-27/labor-rules-out-ai-training-copyright-exceptions/105935740
Power consumption
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-28/google-microsoft-restarting-nuclear-plants-for-ai-power/105941378
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20251008-why-big-tech-is-going-nuclear