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[–] limonfiesta@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At its current pace, AI expenditures may reach $5.2 trillion by 2030

I can't wait.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They think it is a lottery and sinking more money into it will increase the odds of "winning at everything".

[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 5 points 22 hours ago

I love that their moat has been bridged by open models as soon as it was dug. At the current rate, you just have to wait six or nine months and open models will be at opus 4.6 level which is really all you need for most applications. After this I don't see how the big labs could ever recoup their losses.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Obviously, but think of all the middle management, payroll, HR, etc you can fire/not hire!

I'm not sure who to root for here. Middle Managers can suck eggs.

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Their not firing middle managers. Their firing front line coders and lower desk employees and keeping the middle managers while using AI.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago
[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 2 points 22 hours ago

That's not really what's happening they've been trimming a lot of middle manager fat too

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine the horror of having an agentic AI as your manager.

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[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

May this be the beginning of the end, or at least the end of the beginning. Quite possibly with a bubble burst so we can move on from the era of slop (am I being too optimistic?)

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I'm not sure slop will go for good, I'm just hoping for a flood of cheap RAM, SSDs and GPUs at "please take us back" prices to build a new machine from scratch

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

I’ve been shouting this everywhere but I’m pretty sure their plan is to make it so you can never do that, and you have to subscribe to Fire tablet or whatever to participate in society

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago

Patient gamers win again

[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

So unshocking.

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