AI is being touted as a lot of things. A productivity tool to get the most out of your work, a bit of software to help you draft an email, and, perhaps most worrying, a way to do away with those pesky wage costs. However, it seems like, to those near the top of the chain, AI might already be starting to become more costly than its human counterpart.
As reported by Axios, Bryan Catanzaro, the vice president of applied deep learning at Nvidia said: "For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees."
A point worth mentioning here is that this quote does not specify whether that is 'more in total' or 'more per an average worker's work'. My guess is on the former, given how much Nvidia and similar companies are pumping into AI development.
Still, it's a sign of how much commitment is currently being invested in the tech. Nvidia owes a lot to AI, with it being responsible for making it the world's first Read Entire Article
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