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> total revenue: $4B > compute for training models: -$3B > compute for running models: -$2B > employee salaries: -$700M Though not really representative of wha
by ciconia 1y ago
> total revenue: $4B
> compute for training models: -$3B
> compute for running models: -$2B
> employee salaries: -$700M
Though not really representative of what users of said models may experience financially, at this point the question should be raised: if AI compute is 7x more expensive than developer salaries, what's the point? I thought the whole idea was to save money on human resources...
- sejje 1y agoSomeday (probably), a model will be trained once that is better than a human at coding, and it will only need trained once. It can then be used indefinitely for the cost of inference, which is cheap and will continue getting cheaper.
- dpritchett 1y agoThis sounds a whole lot like Pascal's wager (or Roko's basilisk, if you prefer) for trillionaires.