Oh boy. Over the past few days, an article has been doing the rounds as a testimonial for the ludicrousness of AI versus human costs. From that piece, one specific quote (originally from another article) has gone viral and is now under scrutiny all over the internet. Fortune, Tom’s Hardware, TechSpot, Futurism, Yahoo Finance. Reddit. Twitter. LinkedIn. The whole AI-and-jobs cycle this week is resting on this one comment. “For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees,” Bryan Catanzaro, Nvidia’s vice president of applied deep learning, told Axios. Catanzaro runs the team doing advanced research to make advanced models that work on advanced chips. So of course his compute bill is going to be bigger than his payroll. It’s the most obvious place where compute costs more. Anyone surprised by that hasn’t read the org chart. Most companies are not building frontier AI. They are running customer support, payroll, dashboards, marketing, and code. For them the bill…
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