Gsus4@mander.xyz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workersfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up1663
arrow-up1663external-link‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workersfortune.comGsus4@mander.xyz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square94fedilink
minus-squareLittleBorat3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·19 hours agoAt some point they will have to monetize and that’s going to be a bad day for everyone. Imagine having halved your workforce, suddenly you have to pay for compute at what it actually costs. If they don’t find a new thing to sell to their shareholders they will have to monetize.
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·19 hours agoAnd good luck rebuilding all the institutional knowledge that you threw away by firing half your staff, while your former employees are getting rounded up into homeless work camps…
minus-squareMichal@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·19 hours agoWell, the key word is “right now”. AI companies are gambling that their runway is long enough to reach monetization.
At some point they will have to monetize and that’s going to be a bad day for everyone.
Imagine having halved your workforce, suddenly you have to pay for compute at what it actually costs.
If they don’t find a new thing to sell to their shareholders they will have to monetize.
And good luck rebuilding all the institutional knowledge that you threw away by firing half your staff, while your former employees are getting rounded up into homeless work camps…
Well, the key word is “right now”. AI companies are gambling that their runway is long enough to reach monetization.