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Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off?

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-bubble-building-spree-55ee6128
16•RyanShook•1h ago

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techblueberry•1h ago
No
scrubs•1h ago
(Violins playing) and now what?
alexnewman•1h ago
Agreed
kingo55•1h ago
I look forward to the cheap compute flooding the market when the music stops.
0000000000100•1h ago
Not egregious API spending, but ChatGPT Pro was been one of the best investments our company has paid for.

It is fantastic at reasonable scale ports / refactors, even with complicated subject matter like insurance. We have a project at work where Pro has saved us hours of time just trying to understand the over complicated that is currently in place.

For context, it’s a salvage project with a wonderful mix of Razor pages and a partial migration to Vue 2 / Vuetify.

It’s best with logic, but it doesn’t do great with understanding the particulars of UI.

neuronic•48m ago
How are you getting these results? Even with grounding in sources, careful context engineering and whatever technique comes to your mind we are just getting sloppy junk out of all models we have tried.

The sketchy part is that LLMs are super good at faking confidence and expertise all while randomly injected subtle but critical hallucinations. This ruins basically all significant output. Double-checking and babysitting the results is a huge time and energy sink. Human post-processing negates nearly all benefits.

Its not like there is zero benefit to it, but I am genuinely curious how you get consistently correct output for a "complicated subject matter like insurance".

cjbarber•16m ago
What are you trying to use LLMs for and what model are you using?
mwkaufma•56m ago
It's almost tiresome to keep citing Betteridge's law of headlines, but editors at legacy publications keep it relevant. If there was any compelling evidence, they wouldn't have to phrase it as a hypothetical.
profsummergig•29m ago
(1999) - "Spending on Amazon warehouses Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off?"
simonw•27m ago
Amazon weren't spending a single digit percentage of GDP on GPUs with a shelf life measured in just a few years though.
option•18m ago
Yes
rubyfan•4m ago
Is it possible all this capital would be better deployed creating value through jobs that leverage human creativity?