You would think so. Investors are eventually going to want a return on their money put in. But there seems to be a ton of hype and irrationality around AI, even worse than blockchain back in the day.

I think there's an element of FOMO - should someone actually get to AGI, or at least something good enough to actually impact the labor market and replace a lot of jobs, the investors of that company/product stand to make obscene amounts of money. So everyone pumps in, in hope of that far off future promise.

But like you said, how long can this keep going before it starts looking like that future promise will not be fulfilled in this lifetime and investors start wanting a return.