Well, imo the internet now is not in the best state, being basically owned by a few mega corporations, governments trying to push chat control etc etc, bots everywhere

What was once a decentralized and quasi-anarchic dream became the engine for the attention economy :(

I think the crypto problem went twofold: based on hardware like you mentioned, but also the speculation on top of the coins/NFT themselves. I think the AI bubble also has those two elements.

Which species is this?

Yes, although for the moment being we cannot do batchnormalization and skip connections. Maybe in the near future 😄

+1 on memristors. So much so that I am starting a PhD on it xd