By now, it’s clear that the only way the tech industry can justify the cost of AI is if it replaces vast swaths of the human workforce with machines that run 24/7.
The bad news is that this situation has created a world-historic financial market that, by some metrics, is looking worse than the run-up to the Great Depression. The good news is that this future of an AI takeover is looking increasingly unlikely, at least at the industry’s current pace, a fact which is now dawning on some of the biggest rubes and dupes in the corporate world.
According to a new survey from “Big Four” accounting firm KPMG, a significant number of corporate executives are reeling from sticker shock over new usage-based AI pricing schemes. Though enterprises could once count on AI companies to subsidize the price of large language models via flat-rate contracts, that’s no longer a given, as the rising cost of computational power forces the entire tech sector into a defensive posture.
I have to love it when lots of people just mindlessly doing what they think “everyone else” is doing is called “leadership”. Sorry, that’s called behaving like a herd animal.
FFS, you could replace a lot of the asshats in corporate boardrooms and on mahogany row with bash scripts and not even use AI and probably save a metric shit-ton of money, but that would give up the whole game, I guess. Imagine spreading that wealth to all of the people actually doing all the thinking and the goddamned work, even in spite of really shitty management.
I’d love to see some “KPIs” applied to the douchebags that do all this kind of stuff, while trying to stack-rank all of their employees and monitor all their communication with AI and so on…