Last time I told you the AI industry is paying a tax it doesn’t have to pay — that a great deal of what we grandly call “AI” is really just looking things up, and we’ve chosen to do that looking-up on the most expensive silicon ever manufactured. A number of you wrote to say I was overstating it. Surely, you said, the people setting hundreds of billions of dollars on fire know something I don’t. So this week I won’t argue with you. I’ll let one of the largest companies in enterprise software argue with you instead — because it already has, in a research paper it published itself and seems to have hoped you wouldn’t read too closely. The company is Salesforce. […]
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cringely.com — original article
The Lying Machine
The NVIDIA Tax
Where the heck have I been all this time?