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Do they even _make_ actual money? https://isaiprofitable.com/ seems to disagree.

Do they dupe VC into enormous datacentre and capacity build-out investment? Why yes, actual money going to the AI hypester pick-axe vendors (and early equity dumpers) in that sense, absolutely yes it does.

Is Big AI on track to pay that back with profit from any foreseeable and defensible business model? Different question. I sincerely doubt it.

I think one of the more sober analysis that focused on danish firms exclusively predicted the overall growth impact on GDP to be a bit less than half a percent. Now, well that doesn’t sound very large, considering nominal GDP for the world is nearly $60 trillion, that is a big deal. I don’t know if that justifies trillion dollar evaluations for the providers, but even a small improvement over a large base is meaningful.

I bet Sam, Dario and others have a good salary and an even better stock plan

The good thing about open capital markets is the possibility to invest in the upside. The downside is who gets holding the bag when the money runs out

You were a net loss for ~18y or even more and not many people were concerned.

I was a net loss for quite longer than that. Nobody was concerned because I was surrounded by people who loved me.

A net loss on the order of dozens of thousands of dollars. And one whose primary purpose is not wealth creation.

Conservative estimates in the United States puts it at $300,000 to raise a child from 0-18, including the cost of birth in the healthcare system. It goes up to $1 million for a HCOL area though.

> And one whose primary purpose is not wealth creation.

I take it you know your primary purpose.

I think it is rather disgusting to equate raising humans and training an LLM

This seems wrong to me on multiple different levels.

One, this conversation is about economy side of things.

And two, calling comparison between humans and LLMs disgusting when LLMs are borderline GAIs sounds very xenophobic. Did you see the thread about LLM-written fiction contest the other day? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48782890

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