MBA dweebs running VC firms wanna desperately replace people with AI for short term profits.
The big corporations desperately want AI to be popular because they’ve thrown literally insane amounts of money at it and still don’t know how to monetize it.
There’s going to be a huge push to make it seem like everyone loves it and it’s weird not to use it constantly
It’s going to go horribly and come off like that “fellow kids” meme, exactly lol me this headline
Canconda@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
still don’t know how to monetize it.
They do know how to monetize it. API access generated $1Billion in 2023. There’s also huge R&D potential in fields like genetic research and medicine.
Profitability is another question though. Likely we’re waiting for advances in cold fusion or late stage renewable development for energy costs to go down enough.
cygnus@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
They do know how to monetize it. API access generated $1Billion in 2023.
And all that $1B revenue cost them was a $5B loss! www.wheresyoured.at/howmuchmoney/
Canconda@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Yes my second paragraph alleged as much. Not that you read that far of course.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
AI having to wait on cold fusion for profitability is one of the funnier concepts I’ve heard today, thank you.
zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I know, I regularly sleep with one of the researchers involved with several similar pojects (aren’t I cool). Fascinating stuff though! Very much not comparable to commercial LLMs, though.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
People pay for the “premium” because they believe the makers who said it can increase their profitability and make them money.
My employer keeps trying to shove it down our throats too.
They’re desperate to find anyway to make it reduce work, be cause they’ve already paid for it under the assumption it would let them cut staffing
Now they’re finding out they got swindled, do you think they’ll re-up on AI?
The AI companies offloaded how to monetize it to consumers and scared them into being left behind unless they discovered how to use it.
It’s a short term bubble.
zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
AI in this form has been used for like 15 years, to generate trillions of dollars worth of value. I think you’re just talking specifically about ChatGPT and consumer-facing LLMs.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
AI in this form has been used for like 15 years, to generate trillions of dollars worth of value
Suuuuuuuuuuure it has…
nyan@lemmy.cafe 4 weeks ago
He’s probablly talking about shareholder “value”, AKA inflated stock prices, rather than actual value.
zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
lol ok. I’ve literally done it. Please, go enlighten yourself on google.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
“Enlighten yourself” you mean make your argument for you?
randomblock1@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
A good example were those Apple AI ads. So cringe. Google’s ads aren’t much better but at least Gemini works.
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
I’m already seeing a surge of AI simp trolls on Lemmy in the last few days.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Ironically enough they’re the same trolls as the vegan drama.
They don’t care about the topic, they just want to troll and they’ve been up/device banned from all the major social media, so they’ll always be here