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the measure of a man ^W AI ^W something (www.wsj.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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this is almost a NSFW? some choice snippets:

more than 1.5 million people have used it and it is helping build nearly half of Copilot users’ code

Individuals pay $10 a month for the AI assistant. In the first few months of this year, the company was losing on average more than $20 a month per user, according to a person familiar with the figures, who said some users were costing the company as much as $80 a month.

good thing it's so good that everyone will use it amirite

starting around $13 for the basic Microsoft 365 office-software suite for business customers—the company will charge an additional $30 a month for the AI-infused version.

Google, ..., will also be charging $30 a month on top of the regular subscription fee, which starts at $6 a month

I wonder how long they'll try that, until they try forcing it on everyone (and raise all prices by some n%)

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[+] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

my kneejerk reaction was also to do some mental engineering to figure out how basic of a script I could write to generate bullshit queries that’ll cost Microsoft/OpenAI the maximum amount per $10/month account

I can’t wait for the promptfans to transition their stock arguments smoothly from “bro it’s only $20 per month, are you sure that’s too much money to witness a literal miracle” to “$40 a month for gpt-4v is nothing, you clearly can’t accept how much better it is” as the steep price increases we warned them about hit (for scale, the somewhat oversized deployment cluster that hosts awful.systems costs me about $28 a month, and provides more utility to more people than anything I’ve ever seen an LLM produce)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

need to find a way to get captcha solving farms to go on strike, and only ever click the wrong images. where's your free data labeling now, huh

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

how basic of a script I could write

how basic of a script Copilot could write

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I love this idea so much I’m turning into the SICKOS meme before my own eyes, please send help

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah I've been wondering about achilles heels and such.. e.g., is there a complexity cost, or is all the execution constant resource cost?

haven't really been able to go digging on it yet, but it would be hilarious if invasive programs worked. for me, that is. it'd probably suck for them, but who cares about the promptfans and their bucket of bolts

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Well prompters went all 'but innovation is inevitable, you antis are like you are arguing pro horse when the car was just around. Just deal with it' so fuckem ;).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Silicon Valley's grá for AI is ideological, so they'll keep pushing it even though it won't make money. It's like capitalist Lysenkoism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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