I've read upon a particular prediction that I thought would be quite likely to happen. The bubble itself will likely burst, similar to the dot com bubble... but AI as a technology is likely here to stay, similar to the dot com bubble. The hope is that most of the current AI expertise/research will shift more toward academic institutions, who will primarily work on building scientific AI for research purposes. Similar to how foundation models/LLMs are already used in studying genetics/genomics and protein structures... And a few commercial AIs might eventually find a way to be profitable & stay on the market

Will suck a bit for the ML engineers who will have to find new jobs in academia and suffer massive pay cuts though