▲ 724 ▼ ‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers (fortune.com) submitted 4 months ago by Gsus4@mander.xyz to c/world@lemmy.world 106 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] sobchak@programming.dev 17 points 4 months ago (2 children) It also can't do any job I know of. Weird framing. Though, I guess that's the snake oil they're trying to sell. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Infinite@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 months ago If you have someone good enough shepherding it, you can get decent results quickly. It doesn't turn less money into more output, it turns more money into less time. And, you know, steals from everyone and eats our resources. omnomnomnom permalink fedilink source parent [–] DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago (1 child) It can't fully displace jobs because it's super unreliable and makes tons of errors all the time. But it can do some tasks well if you know how to handle it. Still not worth anywhere near what it costs, either to the user, the CAPEX investment, society or the planet. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago Not to mention the risk we take by running them but being unable to control the things. Because, you know, we don't actually know how they work, since we didn't program them, to begin with. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Infinite@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 months ago If you have someone good enough shepherding it, you can get decent results quickly. It doesn't turn less money into more output, it turns more money into less time. And, you know, steals from everyone and eats our resources. omnomnomnom permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago (1 child) It can't fully displace jobs because it's super unreliable and makes tons of errors all the time. But it can do some tasks well if you know how to handle it. Still not worth anywhere near what it costs, either to the user, the CAPEX investment, society or the planet. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago Not to mention the risk we take by running them but being unable to control the things. Because, you know, we don't actually know how they work, since we didn't program them, to begin with. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago Not to mention the risk we take by running them but being unable to control the things. Because, you know, we don't actually know how they work, since we didn't program them, to begin with. permalink fedilink source parent