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>>kcorbi+(OP)
One perspective I've been thinking about lately is how the rise of Crypto has been hugely beneficial for AI, in the same way that the dot-com bubble was hugely beneficial for the internet.

Essentially Crypto lead to huge investment into GPUs and GPU technology, and then once Crypto collapsed lead to a huge capacity of compute power which then decidedly was put into AI.

I doubt that investment into GPU technology would have been driven by the idea of AI alone. Something manic like Crypto had to drive it initially. Without Crypto, I imagine the AI revolution we're seeing today would not have taken place.

>>dottjt+8P
You could also argue the exact opposite. Crypto skyrocketed around 2011-2012 which is also the advent of the compute heavy deep learning boom. If anything, the cost escalation and scarcity of GPUs due to the demand by the crypto-space slowed down AI progress since resources were dedicated to computing useless hashes instead of training better models.

I think a good story can be told for both sides.