Because AI use is up! The FUTURE!
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ozoned@piefed.social 1 week ago
Literally was in a presentation at work the other day where they said someone used 2 million tokens and the next person used 1 million and they were so excited by it.
I didn’t get it. I asked went 2 million was better than 1 million. The VP basically said it’s not, just costs us more money.
So why the hell is the presentation acting like it’s a fucking victory?
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 week ago
shuffle3765@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Because it’s a proxy metric for adoption. Currently you generally want your engineers to be using it as much as you can afford to so that they all learn and improve and adapt existing processes etc
jj4211@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Which is a stupid mindset.
“Go forth and burn tokens and your performance will be measured on that”
Looks like I’m going to make a for to ask for a for every word in /usr/share/dict/words. Look at all the tokens I burned.
It doesn’t reflect upon business value, performance, or education.
It’s even worse than the disastrous lines of code metric.
Their problem is they have no idea what to expect, so to signal affinity to hype, they just measure tokens.
rainwall@piefed.social 1 week ago
Because they believe that AI will replace payroll, which is generally a businesses highest expense. The more AI usage, the more likely they can eliminate jobs and give themselves bonuses.
They are excited the way a farmer is excited when his pigs are gorging themselves on grain and getting really, really fat. The farmer is glad to pay for grain because its much cheaper than the money he makes from selling them for meat.
They are giddy because its almost time for payday.
krisevol@lemmus.org 1 week ago
I can’t wait until AI replaces HR.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
payroll, which is generally a businesses highest expense
This is something that changed in the industry; it was a investment back then.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Huh, it’s been an operating expense since, let me check, the dawn of business?
“Investing in” your employees doesn’t make a ton of sense when they could just hop over to the next company after a year, much like loyalty in a company doesn’t make sense. It’s all a business transaction in the end so if you can get a better deal, you should.
The unfulfilled promise of AI is to reduce the expense to a minimum so the few remaining people can accomplish the same work. That’s more of an investment than paying people to work for you until they find a better job ever was. In theory.
0tan0d@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Hi I suggest you crack open a history book and look at why ford didn’t pay his employees in peanuts.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I wonder at what point government will tax AI use by companies similarly to payroll taxes and incomes taxes.
If they pay an AI company $150,000 a month to replace $50,000 in salaries, the government then loses all that income tax from the previous employees as well as the payroll tax on $600k a year.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Uh they’ll just claim the AI is being used in another country then?
There’s really no way to definitively decide the tax jurisdiction of an AI agent.
Good luck figuring this one out without a tax on unrealized gains in companies and good luck figuring that one out for companies if they can just scheme around it by reinvesting all their profit indefinitely.
A complete ban on AI might be in order.
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Just use their primary tax address in the country.
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You can’t increase taxes on companies. They’ll leave the country.
wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
If they don’t contribute their share to taxes, why would I as a citizen want them?
RogueJello@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Too late, already happened. It’s the reason why Ireland is the home for such notable Irish tech companies as Google, MSFT, Amazon, Meta, and others.
Magnum@infosec.pub 1 week ago
WrathEnchanter@europe.pub 1 week ago
Oh no! What if they took all their fucking datacenters and their pollution and their buying all RAM and their pulling all electricity out of the grid with them?
1984@lemmy.today 1 week ago
At some point capitalism will fail but it will take much longer than we think…
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What is a token, anyway? I’ve never seen any mention of them with GPT.