Microsoft cancelled Claude because they need to dog food Copilot since it sucks. This was acknowledged internally and it’s not a secret.
It is probably more expensive for Microsoft now since the Anthropic tokens were subsidized.
Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees
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#32Literally nowhere in the article does Microsoft report AI is more expensive than paying human employees.
There may be a word missing in the post title. Should be "Microsoft reports show AI is more expensive...". The fact that AI is more expensive still comes through, even though Microsoft does not state this explicitly.
Builders you pay to equip with hammers are more expensive than builders you do not equip with hammers too. More news at 11.
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#33The title seems misleading, and reading the article explains the reason more clearly. There's nonsense OKR's and objectives at these companies to burn as many tokens as possible. It turns out that when you make a metric out of token usage, it unsurprisingly ends up becoming extremely expensive. Inference is affordable, and you don't need a SOTA proprietary model to get a lot of use out of this technology. While you l…
Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
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#34Literally nowhere in the article does Microsoft report AI is more expensive than paying human employees.
Wow... what happened to Fortune? I thought they're far above this kind of clickbait.
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#35When you unleash it without a plan or discipline, they are correct. With discipline, it’s an aggregator. https://devarch.ai/
I do hope the quality of your astroturfing is not indicative of the quality of your companies product.
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#36reminds me of "The Feeling of Power" by Isaak Asimov
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#37For now.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
The media seems hellbent on torching AI. My news feeds are nothing but stories about the evils of data centers, how useless AI is, and how much everyone hates it.
The media is hellbent on torching it, and on propping it up against all reason too, both things can be true. HN is no exception. It's another noisy room problem where the distortion in dialogue is rapidly leading us into a distorted reality. https://thenoisyroom.com/ For people who are actually interested in reality, participation in the mainstream discourse either way is a strategic error. The best thing to do is to…
> listen to the technical heros who are working at the edge
Sounds like a great way to get the rose colored view.
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#39Somehow this 'ai companies will never be profitable' is believed by so many. It's often used by those who don't like AI. There is no doubt that ai is the most lucrative business currently out there. It will only get better. Faster hardware, better algorithms
> It will only get better
The important part is how much and over what time period.
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#40Makes me feel good about my career. Upvote