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  • IBM's CEO walked through some napkin math on data centers— and said that there's "no way" to turn a profit at current costs.
  • "$8 trillion of CapEx means you need roughly $800 billion of profit just to pay for the interest," Arvind Krishna told "Decoder."
  • Krishna was skeptical of that current tech would reach AGI, putting the likelihood between 0-1%.
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[-] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Jesus Christ, when even IBM, the father of computing, says "AI is not gonna give you infinite money", you KNOW the technology is doomed. Altho I'm more inclined to believe the AI CEOs will be like "shut up boomer we're gonna be trillionaires and you won't be!!"

Well, good luck with that once the investors realize you're selling snake oil!

[-] lung@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I really don't understand why lemmy hates ai so much. I get massive productivity gains every day from AI. I agree with this exec that we probably won't hit AGI using current tech or maybe ever, but we still have:

  • incredibly useful image generation that dramatically speeds up the work of designers
  • coding agents that, when used skillfully, generate usable code, and review code pretty well in PRs
  • suno, which can generate stems that my musician friends are regularly using instead of having to hunt through the Internet for days for the right trumpet melody

How this translates to profit is unclear since there is a race to the bottom, companies are choosing to give away the tech to gain market share rn, but the technology is undeniably useful, and already rolled out inside of every major tech company

[-] jaredwhite@humansare.social 33 points 1 week ago

I really don't understand why lemmy hates technology which regurgitates slop based on data stolen from creators against their will, erodes trust, degrades mental health, wreaks havoc on the labor force, destroys the environment, and temporarily enriches a handful of fake billionaires with fake money…gosh I just don't understand!

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