What report did he receive that told him AI use was gonna harm his company's income
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The quarterly budget? https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-have-roi/
Basically, AI should cost at least $1 for every time you hit 'submit'. AI companies have been spending billions and possibly trillions of dollars specifically subsidizing >90% of this cost, and outright hiding the concept that AI even has a marginal cost, by offering a flat-rate subscription ($30/month makes no sense when the same user could ask either 1 prompt or 10 000 prompts)
AI companies have made the problem worse by setting up systems where prompting AIs let the AI break down the prompt into multiple sub-prompts, and then submit each sub-prompt to an AI. This increases the number of prompts potentially infinitely.
The moment AI companies stop subsidizing their services - and they will, because maybe they'll be able to spend the upcoming $1T dollars, but they will absolutely not ever be able to afterward spend the $10 TRILLION no matter what AI zealots say, for reasons that should be obvious - prices will just up 10x and everyone who's been telling their employees "just switch your workflow over to AI, I don't care if it makes sense, just do it, AI is the future" will start burning money like an arson at the mint.
The beginning of the end is now, because some AI companies have already switched from flat-rate to pay-per-token (which basically means 'the more you use AI, the more you have to pay') in an attempt to save money (by discouraging customers from, y'know, providing custom) - which means now the price is somewhat the customer's problem. And CEOs are now starting to freak out at the thing that everyone's been screaming at them to not ignore for years.
I like this website to illustrate the cost
Nvidia is the only one profiting at all, and profiting immensely at that. I wonder what will come to it after...
Most of Nvidia's profit is by either marking IOUs as revenue, or by trading GPUs for stocks in allegedly-valuable AI companies. In either case, if all the AI companies go bankrupt, that 'profit' disappears like the mirage it is.
Huh, I was really wondering if Nvidia would come out of the AI bubble having been the only one to reap all the benefits while all the other companies lost.
Though if their profits are just stocks in those then-failed companies I understand that'd not be the case
My dev friend just sent me a video about the end of uncapped usage... LoL told me they can't really code anymore manually. 🤦
I'm just glad they're finally saying things somewhat related to reality on the subject of AI.