The AI bubble could burst without killing ChatGPT — but you might not like what happens next

Is it just me or are warnings that the AI bubble could burst soon getting even harder to ignore?

Over the past few years, investors have pumped extraordinary amounts of money into AI companies because they've been betting that the technology will eventually generate equally extraordinary returns.

However, there are now growing questions about whether those returns will arrive quickly enough (or ever) to justify all of that spending. For example, The Financial Times recently reported that OpenAI, the maker…