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AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom

222 points · 335 comments · Betelbuddy

vdombr · 1790714818 · focus · HN ↗
It's been almost half a year since we got powerful enough models, and I'm wondering, where are all those great things that were created with them? Maybe it's just me, but nothing has changed in my life so far. No improvements, but definitely, I need to be more careful when reading, listening, watching, and using things, as bad quality slowly creeps everywhere.
1. drivebyhooting · 1790715133 · focus · HN ↗
  Do you build things for yourself? I’ve unlocked tremendous value just by scratching my own itches so to speak.
  But taking those bespoke contraptions to market is not something I want to out effort into. Especially when anyone can just clone it with AI.
  The AI revolution might not show up so easily in GDP.
  1. fragmede · 1790718997 · focus · HN ↗
    GDP is known to have shortcomings. The example from HN a bit ago is mowing the lawn. If I mow my own lawn and my neighbor mows there, the GDP doesn't move. If I mow my neighbors for $200 and they mow mine for $200, $400 gets added to the GDP. So the software I wrote for myself won't show up in any GDP calculation. How happy (or not) I am over that software doesn't show up in the GDP. My subscription to the AI provider is the only thing that will. Now, will that, multiplied over millions of users reach $6T? I have no idea. GDP is a metric like any other and is just as subject to Goodhart's law.

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