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AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure: A $20 billion setback.
futurism.com/future-society/ai-financial-bubble-openai-billions-failure
Replying to @eicker@lemmy.world
WeWork was declared a failure when it lost 6 billion in a year. OpenAI is net negative 17 billion a year…
Replying to @Akh@lemmy.world
There is quite a difference from an investor standpoint in a product that replaces all human labor vs coworking space.
Replying to @darvocet@infosec.pub
I still have yet to see it adequately replace any human labor
Replying to @PattyMcB@lemmy.world
Then you haven’t been using the right models or trying.
Replying to @darvocet@infosec.pub
Let’s say for a moment that AI really is as capable as AI bros want you to believe it is. Having used some AI models at my work (network engineer), I’m not so convinced, but I’ll put that aside for a moment.
The pinch of the AI vise is going to be the cost. All the AI companies are running at loss to try and capture the market, and they’ll need to charge a lot more for access to AI once a winner is determined.
Are you willing to pay 10x what you pay right now for access to an AI agent? Because that’s looking like what they’ll have to do in order to turn these companies profitable.
Are you willing to pay 10x what you pay right now for access
That’s really the crux of the matter. Regardless of if it’s fit for purpose to replace paid labour, is it actually financially viable in any way to replace humans with an AI model that works but costs several times more than a human work force while not being able to be held legally accountable.
Replying to @Sturgist@piefed.ca
If this future AI agent solves the task at a fraction of the time, it can still be financially viable at several times the cost.
Riiiiight…..
Replying to @ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
That only makes sense if money is made on the output. What you’re basically saying is X Toy Company will make more money if they make more toys. What you’re forgetting is that there has to be a demand for those toys. So X Toy Company can’t replace workers with AI unless there’s more demand for the toys than there is currently able to be fulfilled and there’s no evidence for that across all sectors of the economy.
Replying to @atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
exactly, depending on the case it’s a possibility and not a guarantee, which is why I also wrote it can be, not it will be.