▲ 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
[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago (2 children) At some point they will have to monetize and that's going to be a bad day for everyone. Imagine having halved your workforce, suddenly you have to pay for compute at what it actually costs. If they don't find a new thing to sell to their shareholders they will have to monetize. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 20 points 4 months ago And good luck rebuilding all the institutional knowledge that you threw away by firing half your staff, while your former employees are getting rounded up into homeless work camps... permalink fedilink source parent [–] Michal@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago Well, the key word is "right now". AI companies are gambling that their runway is long enough to reach monetization. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 20 points 4 months ago And good luck rebuilding all the institutional knowledge that you threw away by firing half your staff, while your former employees are getting rounded up into homeless work camps... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Michal@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago Well, the key word is "right now". AI companies are gambling that their runway is long enough to reach monetization. permalink fedilink source parent