• mcv@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    OpenAI’s mounting costs — set to hit $1.4 trillion

    Sorry, but WTF!? $1.4 Trillion in costs? How are they going to make all of that back with just AI?

    I think there’s only one way they can make this back: if AI gets so good they can really replace most employees.

    I don’t think it will happen, but either way it’s going to be an economic disaster. Either the most valuable companies in the world, offering services that the next couple of hundred companies in the world depend on, are suddenly bankrupt. Or suddenly everybody is unemployed.

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      If LLMs fail and they invested: bailout

      If LLMs succeed and they invested: rich

      If LLMs fail and they passed: everyone else bailed out

      If LLMs succeed and they passed: out of business

      Therefore, the logical choice for a business is to invest in LLMs. The only mechanism to not do the stupid thing that everyone else is doing is gone.

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      9 months ago

      Prediction: the bubble is real but financiers will find ways to kick the bull down the road until they can force enough adoption & ad insertion to not lose out. The other option is that we pay it, of course. Takes on which is worse?

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        9 months ago

        They’ll do both just like they did in 2007/2008. These AI companies and their investors will get bailed out while the rest of us lose our jobs and have to move back in with our parents in the van they already live in.

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      9 months ago

      Ok but if it gets so good it replaces all the employees, how do people have enough money to pay for their services?

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        9 months ago

        Who cares about the money of people when they have all the money?

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      9 months ago

      that’s what they got excited about, no doubt. profit would go through the roof if they could take people out of the loop. nevermind the economy.