At some point AI companies are going to have to charge real money to make a profit from their services. What do you think that amount would be and why? (sh.itjust.works)

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[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Agreed and all of those w tracks to squeeze out as much as we can from silicon.

There's a limit that we haven't yet reached but we will eventually because of those profits.

I bet that China will be the first to reach it since they're willing to spend so much on all infrastructure.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago

I expect so as well, and China also has a lot of incentive to invest in alternative substrates since they're behind on silicon. If one of these moonshot projects they're pursuing delivers that would make current silicon chips look like vacuum tubes by comparison.

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