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Re: SAP stops most travel and hiring because of AI's soaring cost

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Take your favorite OCR software. Then take a photo of a document and throw it into ChatGPT, or Gemini, along with the word "Transcribe". ChatGPT wins, by a landslide. BUT AI's advantage doesn't stop there. "Take this picture of some idiot filling in form 49, I've also attached the PDF, fill in the PDF fields, provide a database record according to the schema attached and flag if there are any obvious problems with th…

30 document analysis in parallel

Actually 30 is sequential on an hosted Xeon server. No GPU, about 2 minutes for a ~2000 token answer. I should try parallel since you're quite right, I should be able to do faster that way.

Re: SAP stops most travel and hiring because of AI's soaring cost

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So they are using AI to run the company, and AI allocated all the money to AI?

Sounds like a paperclip maximizer to me. Seriously, why the duck aren't they running their own AI systems in house???

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