• L7HM77@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Why does it cost so much to engineer new models? I thought AI can replace software engineers now, shouldn’t the development cost of new models decrease over time?

    • EnsignWashout@startrek.website
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      4 hours ago

      Why does it cost so much to engineer new models?

      We need at least two massive quantum leaps in quality before this stuff can be long-term profitable; and there probably simply aren’t two quantum leaps left in the current pathways being explored.

      But turning off all the bots, contracts, and lies would cause the investment money to stop immediately, rather than later.

      Everyone perpetrating this scam wants to cash out a tiny bit more before it crashes.

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      23 hours ago

      Joking aside - I think the whole “engineer time is expensive, computer time is cheap” approach stopped being true half a decade or so before LLMs were a thing. It was kind of self defeating - you’d think companies were trying to increase their usage of computing resources due to some misconception that it’d automatically decrease work humans have to do, saving them money in the long run.

      I don’t have the numbers, but I wouldn’t be surprised if software/hardware costs exceeded engineering costs for about a decade now, with all these inefficient-on-purpose frameworks and with everything being on the cloud and with using various services for the sake of using a service.