• Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36 minutes

    They barely have launched anything and they are already enshitifying their offerings. I think this says what everyone is thinking. No, they are nowhere near profitable and large scale deployment may not be profitable for a long time.

    It took AWS nine years to become profitable. It appears that AI may take a decade or more. How they plan on surviving when they are already taking away features and putting hard limits on usage is anybody’s guess.

      • Chulk@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2 hours

        I’ll never understand how devs get so confident in their product that they will provoke hackers/attackers. I wouldn’t even have that level of confidence even after an independent audit lmao

        Edit: also what kind of dumbass makes an April fools joke about their own product being compromised. Amateur shit.

  • theherk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 hours

    That nvidia one is probably impossible to pin down, since it is really just a big ouroboros investment human centipede eating its own revenue out of all the other asses.

  • magnue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 hours

    Assumedly Nvidia is just dumping all its profits back into these companies

  • [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish
    5 hours

    I really thought today would be the day guys

    I guess I just need to invest more into AI. What if we took the funding for hospitals and converted them into diesel generators to power more chips bought for well above cost?

  • AreaKode@riskeratspizza.comEnglish
    4 hours

    I think they’re hoping AI will eventually get smart enough to make itself do stuff. Sorta like a fusion reactor: you get it jump started with billions of taxpayer money, and eventually it will start spitting out hundred dollar bills!

    • Step 1: Destroy the environment with millions of unnecessary datacenters.
    • Step 2: ???
    • Step 3: Profit!-
  • FaceDeer@fedia.io
    4 hours

    This seems somewhat misleading. Lots of products take a lot of investment in them for many years before they reach profitability. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, for example, was in development for 7 years and another three years after that before it was profitable. The Falcon 9 rocket took 13 years to develop and now it’s the most profitable satellite launcher around. The Dyson bag-free cyclonic vacuum cleaner took 15 years to develop.

    Most of this AI stuff has only been in heavy development since ChatGPT burst upon the scene in 2023. It’s not unreasonable to see the industry still heavily into the investment and development side of things.

    • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      That’s true but the pricing doesn’t match the expense by a long shot. The question is - what is going to give out first? Capital, or the all-you-can-eat pricing? (and yes the latter is closing as we speak)

  • themurphy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5 hours

    It’s way too broad to say “is AI profitable” because it spends from LLMs, image generation to DNA sequense modelling.

    Was it profitable to run protein analysis with AI? Yes.

    Is it profitable to run ChatGPT? No.

    Is the survalliance power with Palintir worth it? Yes, but for controlling the masses.

    So what is this question even asking?

    • VibeSurgeon@piefed.socialEnglish
      5 hours

      The question and answer posed by the website is a bit more narrow, it’s asking specifically whether the companies currently investing heavily into LLM tech are seeing monetary returns on this investment as of today.

      The answer is no

      • themurphy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3 hours

        I know what the article says, but I’m just adressing the headline with a missuse of the term AI.

        It’s like saying “is sport profitable” and then only talking about a specific genre.

      • SigHunter@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        4 hours

        But that is not actually the goal. The goal is being the last surviving company and controlling the then broken market for infinite money. aswell as mass surveillance and controlling the answers to all questions asked