[jpalomaki]

We have articles that are very skeptical about whether AI companies will ever make any money.

And then we have others claiming that AI is already having such a significant impact on hiring that the effects are clearly visible in the statistics.

[illini1]

Those two phenomena can be true at the same time.

[AnimalMuppet]

Those two are not contradictory.

AI companies could never make any money (statement about the future, and about AI companies, and finances). And AI could be having a visible effect on hiring today (statement about now, and about non-AI companies, and about employment).

They don't have to both be true, but they do not inherently contradict each other.

[vjvjvjvjghv]

In 2000 a lot of internet companies went under while the internet had a huge impact on business and wider society.