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- The AI frenzy has shades of dot-com mania but with one big, dangerous difference.
- Professor Erik Gordon noted internet startups had far fewer investors than Big Tech does now.
- Companies like Nvidia are huge and make money, but if they do crash there'll be sweeping fallout.
The AI boom resembles the dot-com bubble — but there's one big difference that makes this craze far more dangerous, says one expert.