So about that AI boom.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino. It is Friday, which means it's time for Marketplace Tech Bites week in review.

On today's show, Olympians have taken to social media

to celebrate, sometimes trash talk,

but also to discuss their mental health. Google pulled a controversial Olympics ad featuring its

Gemini Artificial Intelligence tool. But first, what the stock market sell-off could be saying

about the AI boom?

Here to discuss all of that is Christina Farr.

She writes the health tech newsletter,

Second Opinion, and says there's growing chatter

that AI had gotten a bit over-inflated.

I think we are looking at a bubble.

There's a lot of downsides to AI that we don't really talk about.

One of them is just the amount of energy that it takes to power

generative AI. I've been reading just some studies on this and it's you know it's

potentially going to move us into quantum computing before we know it.

Because we just don't have enough water to be able to power some of these models and

the development of these models.

It just takes so much in terms of raw compute.

So yes, you know, chatbots are helpful and you know we've seen across sectors including health

care where I spend most of my time that things like

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