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jeffrey funk

Asia–Pacific (APAC)
As seen in: Fast Company, MarketWatch, Flipboard, Salon, Morningstar, NewsBreak, Ex Bulletin, The Yuan
40 years of experience as engineer, professor, and analyst of technologies and startups. Author of six books including most recently Unicorns, Hype and Bubbles.

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My career has focused on how new technologies emerge and diffuse as a professor, consultant, and writer. I was one of the first to recognize the potential for smart phones during the late 1990s and early 2000s in Japan, and I worked with several Western companies (e.g., Bougyues Telecom and Nokia). I was also recommending to mobile service providers as early as 2004 that they should focus on apps long before the iPhone was released in 2007. The research done as part of this consulting earned me…

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No, the AI Bubble is Nothing Like the Dotcom Bubble

No, the AI Bubble is Nothing Like the Dotcom Bubble

In the important ways, today's AI is a poor performer compared to the Internet.

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The AI bubble is looking worse than the dot-com bubble. Here’s why

The AI bubble is looking worse than the dot-com bubble. Here’s why

We can compare the generative-AI bubble with the internet bubble by looking at revenues in 2000, the peak of …

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Silicon Valley Unicorns are a Victim of a Broken Venture Capital System

Silicon Valley Unicorns are a Victim of a Broken Venture Capital System

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Musk and LeCun Have a Superficial Debate About Science

Musk and LeCun Have a Superficial Debate About Science

Instead of rising above the superficial debates about science, they remain caught up in their own petty battl…

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Why AI can't replace science

Why AI can't replace science

The scientific revolution has increased our understanding of the world immensely and improved our lives immea…

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AI replicating human thinking is more Big Tech ‘fake-it-til-you-make-it’ hype

AI replicating human thinking is more Big Tech ‘fake-it-til-you-make-it’ hype

Stanford University’s seventh annual report on the state of AI is a striking example of diminished expectatio…

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Opinion: ChatGPT will have a hard time answering this question about AI

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By jeffrey funk, Gary Smith
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Outside the Box Where’s the beef? Plenty of money but no profits are a setup for the ‘AI-slop’ bubble to end badly. Published: Oct. 24, 2025 at 9:49 a.m. ET AI disappointments in business have created is a new term: “AI slop,” or low-quality, error-prone content. Photo: Getty Images The investment value of a stock comes from the cash flow it generates. Speculators, in contrast, care not a whit for cash flow; they are focused instead on future stock prices.
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Meta paying an AI engineer more money than NBA superstar Stephen Curry? That's a bubble ready to pop.

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By jeffrey funk, Gary Smith
| Morningstar
By Jeffrey Funk and Gary Smith Mark Zuckerberg and other AI boosters show they're players by spending money - not by making profits We are much further from artificial general intelligence than Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman and other tech leaders claim. During the dot-com bubble, companies showed they were players not by making a profit but by spending money - especially other people's money. The more you spent, the more important you were.
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Opinion: Paying an AI engineer more than NBA superstar Stephen Curry? That’s a bubble ready to pop.

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By jeffrey funk, Gary Smith
| MarketWatch Verified
Outside the Box Mark Zuckerberg and other AI boosters show they’re players by spending money — not by making profits Published: Sept. 4, 2025 at 8:13 a.m. ET Photo: MarketWatch photo illustration/iStockphoto During the dot-com bubble, companies showed they were players not by making a profit but by spending money — especially other people’s money. The more you spent, the more important you were.
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