AI Boom At Risk From Unpatched Y2K Bug Discovered In 2024

It seems the digital specter of the Y2K bug has returned from its brief twenty-five-year hibernation, ready to wreak havoc on our gleaming artificial intelligence ambitions. One might have thought the collective genius behind self-aware algorithms and predictive analytics would have, at some point, checked the date settings on their foundational systems. Alas, much like a particularly resilient jar of pickles with a forgotten expiry date, the millennium bug has apparently persisted, just waiting for the perfect moment to remind us that perhaps we didn't fix everything with duct tape and good intentions back in '99.

Indeed, with the newfound revelation that this decades-old oversight could jeopardize the entire data infrastructure boom, comparisons to the dot-com bubble are now apparently mandatory. It’s a rather poignant commentary on human progress when the cutting edge of innovation is consistently threatened by the digital equivalent of forgetting to change your clocks for daylight saving. One must wonder if the algorithms themselves will develop a dark sense of irony once they realize their very existence hangs precariously on a two-digit date format.