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The profit focus being wrong seems so weird to me. It's an awfully expensive operation to run GPT-4 at scale and even now, it's rumored they are running the ser
by jug 3y ago
The profit focus being wrong seems so weird to me. It's an awfully expensive operation to run GPT-4 at scale and even now, it's rumored they are running the services at a loss. I understand the philosophical side, sure, but you can't just disregard all those massive GPU farms and staff tuning their models. AI is said to have created a new country in terms of energy use and OpenAI no doubt accounts for a large portion of that.
- someperson 3y agoCertainly Microsoft's GPTv4 infrastructure is still eye-wateringly expensive: > GitHub Copilot has reportedly been costing Microsoft up to $80 per user per month in some cases as the company struggles to make its AI assistant turn a profit. > According to a Wall Street Journal report, the figures reportedly come from an unnamed individual familiar with the company, who noted that the Microsoft-owned platform was losing an average of $20 per user per month in the first few months of 2023. https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-is-reportedly-losing-huge-amounts-of-money-on-github-copilot https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-is-reportedly-losing...
- jmerz 3y agoI'm hacking on some GPT-for-long-form-text stuff right now and it is _eye wateringly_ expensive once you start generating at anything close to "professional human" token outputs. $80 per month sounds already pretty optimized.
- alsodumb 3y agoThis article about copilot is BS. Nat Friedman refuted this on twitter and made it clear that copilot wasn't losing money.
- capableweb 3y ago> The profit focus being wrong seems so weird to me. It is a non-profit after all, who owns a for-profit company. I'm just trying to imagine how the board sees it.