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I would hazard a guess that AI technology is already close to break even from an economic perspective, nearly everyone I know (especially those not in tech) uses it on a daily basis to assist with their work, especially coming in the form of dealing with pointless bureaucracy, writing emails and ideation.

From a cashflow perspective however it is no where near close to capturing its economic benefit, and to be fair to the bubble supporters I agree that I can't see how it can capture this in the short term. In the long term its pretty clear that there will be some major winners here who will reap big rewards.




Everyone is relying on the costs of computation to come down by an order of magnitude. Whether that will actually happen – let's see.


It has already come down by magnitudes. Just check API costs for the same level of intelligence of models over the last 1.5 years.




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