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Re:There's No Guarantee AI Will Ever Be Profitable by teractiveodular on Monday July 29, 2024 @09:50AM (#41100431)
Bit of a clickbait title there, which the Atlantic has already changed to the more factual "Silicon Valley’s Trillion-Dollar Leap of Faith".

It's not difficult to imagine profitable uses of AI: deploying an open-source model to respond to customer support emails almost certainly costs less than the yearly salary of a script-reading customer service agent, and while the quality won't be great, what it replaces isn't great either.

It is, however, indeed difficult to justify spending $100 million on training a single model like Anthropic apparently wants to.

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Re:There's No Guarantee AI Will Ever Be Profitable by JohnFen on Monday July 29, 2024 @11:18AM (#41101099)
> the Atlantic has already changed to the more factual "Silicon Valley’s Trillion-Dollar Leap of Faith".

I disagree that's more factual. I think the two are equally factual. One just has a slightly more pessimistic spin than the other.

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