It’s also a technology issue. We have companies working on doing compute in memory which should offer such massive power and cost savings that companies might warp their algorithms around it to save all that money. Same goes for silicon photonics.

It’s way too early to be certain about anything, so companies are going with the least risky option and idiots are pouring billions into adding “AI” in places where it doesn’t belong just like they did with “big data” a few years ago (we’re currently doing that at my company).