Pod: “The Coming AI Winter”
This week, we discuss the potential for an AI winter, and what it might mean for publishers
This week, we discuss the problems with the AI industry, including a recent report from SeekingAlpha noting how NVIDIA is struggling to make revenue numbers and seeing core elements of its business slow, the lack of moats, the incredible expenses, and other elements detailed by Ed Zitron and others.
We then explore what AI in scientific publishing is really all about these days, and why it’s also likely to experience an “AI winter.”
Finally, we discuss whether there is a larger “tech winter” coming.
And we finish with our “Discoveries of the Week.”
Show Notes
"Gaslight" preprints — https://www.the-geyser.com/now-its-gaslight-preprints/
Ed Zitron's newsletter — https://www.wheresyoured.at/
Ed Zitron's podcast — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-offline/id1730587238
Hum "manifesto" — https://blog.hum.works/posts/the-alchemist-future
Katina review of AI tools — https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/reviews/2025/deep-dive-into-three-ai-academic-search-tools
Our Cactus Communications interview — https://allthingsscicomm.buzzsprout.com/1933426/episodes/17561515-rethinking-science-communication-beyond-technology-trends
Joy's "Discovery of the Week" — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOigILEBilo
Kent's "Discovery of the Week" — https://www.amazon.com/Genius-Myth-Curious-History-Dangerous/dp/B0DX9W74SZ/
Provoke the Truth (pod music) — https://provokethetruth.net/
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