#purchasingintelligencebythesyllable — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #purchasingintelligencebythesyllable, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwaldby/116875544723393918
A few highlights (didn’t read to end but I’m captivated by the notion of ‘purchasing intelligence by the syllable’): “… Microsoft, which has invested approximately $13 billion in OpenAI and writes up to 30 percent of its own code with generative AI, instructed engineers in a major division to stop using an AI coding assistant because the bills became untenable. One unnamed company, per Axios, ran up a $500 million Claude bill in a single month after management forgot to set a usage cap. These are structural miscalculations about what intelligence costs when you purchase it by the syllable.
“Bryan Catanzaro, Nvidia's vice president of applied deep learning, put it bluntly: the cost of compute for his team now far exceeds what the company spends on the employees using it. The company that manufactures the hardware powering the AI revolution acknowledges that the technology is more expensive than the people it was supposed to augment.””
Says everything about (or describes) the inefficiency of the tool & the wealth of certain parts of the world. Also perhaps absence of (or breakdown in) cost-benefit analysis or perhaps - more widely - values.
#AI #costOfAIReplacingPeople #inefficiency #costBenefitAnalysis #costBenefit #purchasingIntelligenceByTheSyllable #costOfIntelligenceBySyllable
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwaldby/116875544723393918
A few highlights (didn’t read to end but I’m captivated by the notion of ‘purchasing intelligence by the syllable’): “… Microsoft, which has invested approximately $13 billion in OpenAI and writes up to 30 percent of its own code with generative AI, instructed engineers in a major division to stop using an AI coding assistant because the bills became untenable. One unnamed company, per Axios, ran up a $500 million Claude bill in a single month after management forgot to set a usage cap. These are structural miscalculations about what intelligence costs when you purchase it by the syllable.
“Bryan Catanzaro, Nvidia's vice president of applied deep learning, put it bluntly: the cost of compute for his team now far exceeds what the company spends on the employees using it. The company that manufactures the hardware powering the AI revolution acknowledges that the technology is more expensive than the people it was supposed to augment.””
Says everything about (or describes) the inefficiency of the tool & the wealth of certain parts of the world. Also perhaps absence of (or breakdown in) cost-benefit analysis or perhaps - more widely - values.
#AI #costOfAIReplacingPeople #inefficiency #costBenefitAnalysis #costBenefit #purchasingIntelligenceByTheSyllable #costOfIntelligenceBySyllable