are LLMs ever profitable for companies? or is it just a money sink? obviously AI is good for hobbies and normal people, but i mean for companies trying to earn money and do something productive, i guess it can be good for spam but that's hardly productive, just a mass scam
>>106430604https://martinalderson.com/posts/are-openai-and-anthropic-really-losing-money-on-inference/TL;DR inference is highly profitable but the R&D behind it keeps them in the red
>>106430604UiPath and Automation Anywhere charge from 15k to 30k for repackaging OpenAI or Anthropic APIs within their low code interface to make agents, plus credit refills if you run out which also cost thousands of dollars.
>>106430604Most companies become profitable after 5 to 10 years.They're burning cash right now hoping to become profitable.
>>106430604Wait, don't tell me that it did the number of API calls equal to items in your order.
>>106430604Wow. God forbid a man gets thirsty while eating some tacos.
Yes, it will be. Absolutely. The problem is that they are still chasing the cutting-edge exploration of the tech instead of letting the engineers have a field day with applications. It's going to happen eventually.
No. The reality is that most of these companies are currently on introductory deals where the price is next to nothing because all the tech bros are trying to get them invested in it before they jack the price up to the point they start making a profit.I don't think people understand how expensive this garbage is to run.
>>106430604its really hard to get an ai to figure out what is or isnt a reasonable request and its even harder for it to parse that it made a mistakeits extremely easy to jailbreak them and even easier to just fuck with them so they do wacky shitif you have to have a "handler" for the AI aka a person sitting there then why tf wouldnt you just have the person do the job anyway if they're already there and being paidi dont really know what koolaid all these ceos drank but its become very clear that pretty much all of them are so utterly disconnected from reality that they cannot be trusted to even tie their own goddamn shoesit has to be some yes-man shit like. if you're a ceo you probably adore bootlickers and so having a pocket bootlicker giving you a 24/7 blowie must be frying their fucking synapses or some shitai absolutely has use like medical fields and cybersecurity and as an overglorified search engine but its been how many years and itll still do shit like pic related to this day
>>106434359They're all braindead retards who fall for the snakeoil salesman because he goes "oh, everyone is doing it, you don't wanna be left behind, right?".
i will trust AI is real the day that jeet truck drivers get replaced by robo-trucks
>>106430604I don't eat much fastfood but went recently and it actually took me 1 second to understand it was AI and I actually had this real human hatred of it.
>>106436194happen to me with coworkers sending me AI replies kek, niqqa i can just talk with the chatbot directly, you've become just furniture to me
>>106430604the resources and time invested feels very uneven compared to the immediate benefit. i feel achieving machinic consciousness is a way harder than AI bros make it sound like, and i would be surprised if we don't experience another AI winter soon.
Productivity improving doesn't translate to revenue or stocks performing better, and afaik every time a company has a decisive advantage over another it's because of innovation (not writing a scientific paper or some other thing an AI can do, but developping the right technology at the right time) or the marketing/business side of things.Meaning AI isn't worth the price unless you start thinking in terms of reducing costs, which is a sign your business isn't doing well.
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>>106434359>i dont really know what koolaid all these ceos drankdesperation to make their money back after "web3" failed and then massively short-sighted over-hiring during coof
Why don't fast food places just let you hit the register buttons yourself at this point?Seriously, just let you either pre-order on their app or if you drive through just let you hit a button for "#4 WITH CHEESE". They already haev kiosks for that for non-drive-thru
>>106434350And how expensive is it to run?Stop making ominous, pompous statements like this, forever. Never fucking talk like this. What in the fuck is supposed to be the reaction of the audience?
>>106436759800 gallons of water or whatever, you cant do it on your shitrig at home even with an assembled model so its probably a lot
>>106436578>memory card jammed into laptopi keep forgetting how much sony wanted their gaming division peripherals to become real standards
