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I once found an article about AI where it talked about investment cycles and the whole industry dying off multiple times in the past due to investor interest disappearing (hexbear.net)

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My assumption is that I found it here but I'm not sure.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I want to find it again.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

For now, companies are still losing money by running this. Take github copilot as an example, licenses are at 10 dollars a month (plus your data ofc), but microsoft spends an average of 40 per user by running the machines.

But... two more papers down the line, more optimized algorithms and cheaper hardware...