> Has there ever been a period o time where people saw a bubble coming and that we were in one, but it just inexorably refused to pop/drug out this long?
The housing bubble that peaked in 2006 was raised as an issue at least as early as 2000 and became a big topic of conversation in mid-to-late 2002, which is comparable to if we had started talking about an AI bubble roughly simultaneously with the release of GPT-3 and it had become a topic of wide concern shortly after the release of GPT-3.5.
So, in short, not only “this long”, but much longer.
The housing bubble that peaked in 2006 was raised as an issue at least as early as 2000 and became a big topic of conversation in mid-to-late 2002, which is comparable to if we had started talking about an AI bubble roughly simultaneously with the release of GPT-3 and it had become a topic of wide concern shortly after the release of GPT-3.5.
So, in short, not only “this long”, but much longer.