Companies are racing to incentivize employees to use AI. But as some companies are finding, the more employees that use the technology, the heavier the bill.
There are ways to make it cheaper. Starting with maybe not encouraging token-maxing.
Generally, unless you’re either a FOSS project or generating images/video, you have to be doing something very wrong to spend more on AI than on salaries.
Yeah, it’s counterintuitive because it’s a lot more work for a human to draw a picture (much less a photorealistic picture) than to write a few words, but human language grammar actually has a lot of strict rules that makes that stream of letters work as “valid” output, much less “decent” output that kinda matches the prompt/description. Transpose a pair of letters or even substitute a single letter (or token) and you’ve got an output that just doesn’t work, in a way that generated images don’t have to worry about.
There are ways to make it cheaper. Starting with maybe not encouraging token-maxing.
Generally, unless you’re either a FOSS project or generating images/video, you have to be doing something very wrong to spend more on AI than on salaries.
Generating images is not that expensive, it’s surprisingly inexpensive.
Yeah, it’s counterintuitive because it’s a lot more work for a human to draw a picture (much less a photorealistic picture) than to write a few words, but human language grammar actually has a lot of strict rules that makes that stream of letters work as “valid” output, much less “decent” output that kinda matches the prompt/description. Transpose a pair of letters or even substitute a single letter (or token) and you’ve got an output that just doesn’t work, in a way that generated images don’t have to worry about.