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Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers'

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Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers'

Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM to

Technology@beehaw.org · 7 days ago

Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' | Fortune

The AI boom has turned the standard profit margin model on its head, according to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok—and it’s making the industry’s growth unsustainable.

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I feel like an idiot not catching it the first time I heard about the GPU crunch, but yes.

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