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Why not?

Most likely because you'll be filthy reach from selling AGI and won't need to go after secondary revenue sources.

>Most likely because you'll be filthy reach from selling AGI

Why? If AGI costs more than a human or operates slower than one, it may not be economical for people to buy it. By the time it becomes economical, competitors may have also cracked it reducing your ability to charge high margins on it.

If OpenAI had anything even resembling AGI they'd be milking the shit of that, even if only for marketing.

Cost decreases with time

Humans can work on a problem 8 hours a day? You can run inference 24/7

It decreases, but decreasing from $1 million per token to $0.9 million per token after a year is still a decrease, but it still is not viable. Paying an AGI a $100 billion dollars for it to work 24/7 for a year is worse than hiring 10 people for $30k a year to work shifts to do the same work 24/7.

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