I'm no economist but if true don't you have the opposite problem? How do you get people to need X many tokens per day such that you can sell enough to make money? Wouldn't you need an absence of competition for that to be ok?

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anthonypasq 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

the demand for intelligence is infinite. you sound like someone in 1960 wondering what the hell we would even do with the functionally infinite cpu cycles we have available to us now.

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simianwords 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you are an AI bear you have multiple techniques with you

- if AI costs go down you can ask how the companies will make profit and then suggest the bubble popping

- if AI costs go up you can ask how people will afford it and then suggest the bubble popping

- if companies actually do make profit then you can say the companies are getting too big and powerful so it’s a bad thing for consumers

Essentially you have left zero to a small narrow path where you are happy with the outcomes.

	▲	beepbooptheory 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I get your point but it still like begs the question right? If you are optimistic about it all, what is the good narrative? What does it all look like? Billions upon billions of prompts to the finest models every millisecond? And then we have to scale on top of that? To like what end? How many apps do we need to code? How many questions can a single person even ask on any given day? Do I lack some imagination here? Like what if they don't necessarily have to be super duper money making machines to legitimate how useful and nice they are for you? Is that even conceivable? What if tomorrow we all decided they are more like utilities? Would that change anything intrinsic about them for you?