Why are people so concerned that AI isn’t making money right this second? Why does it have to be profitable right now? That kind of expectation would be unthinkable in manufacturing. Building almost any factory takes around five years to pay for itself in the best case and some take even longer It feels like people got used to SaaS businesses generating huge profits almost immediately, especially in the pre COVID even though most business models simply don’t work that way. That was the whole advantage of the IT business - enormous margins. AI on the other hand can be viewed more like railroads - you have to invest a massive amount of money upfront so that eventually there are tracks for the trains to run on And if you look at software development, plenty of programmers already use Claude/GPT today, and that alone is already generating a lot of economic value. But most people haven’t actually tried using AI seriously at work. They tested these models a couple of years ago, back when they could barely write decent code, and concluded once and for all that “a robot can’t compose a symphony” Meanwhile, there are still huge untouched areas like automated sorting in warehouses, autonomous drone delivery without human operators, and so on. Self driving taxis already exist, It’s only a matter of time before they become mainstream submitted by /u/kalmankantaja
Originally posted by u/kalmankantaja on r/ArtificialInteligence