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by solid_fuel12 hours ago |
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upvoteby GPerson10 hours ago|
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That’s how I feel about AI people taking over the arts and fields like mathematics. For most of them it’s just a neat trick, and maybe there’s some business in there (the OpenAI tik tok clone as an extreme example), but for a huge portion of the world AI doing this work represents the end* of one of the best parts of life. I can’t help but view the AI researchers and promoters as callously stomping all over human culture and patting themselves on the back (also stuffing their pockets with the loot) for doing so.

*Or at least a serious philosophical adjustment, and not all artists want to draw without even being seen.. Not all mathematicians are playing some abstractly analogous version of chess. Not every way of human existence that has been forgotten is 100% regressive and bad.

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upvoteby r3trohack3r9 hours ago|
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> The user without empathy has managed to save 30 minutes on a task

One supplier ended up with a direct sale they wouldn’t have otherwise

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upvoteby sebastiennight6 hours ago|
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IIUC, so far the supplier has only ended up needing to send samples and a quote to a prospect, and no sale has actually happened. So as of today, everyone is showing a net negative result except whichever company sells the Grok bot tokens.

If that company is subsidizing the price of the bot with VC money and not turning a profit, then as of today, 40 suppliers, 1 HN member, all Grok/SpaceX investors, all Nasdaq index investors, and probably some others, are showing a net negative, and the only company showing a positive result from all this is NVidia.

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upvoteby simgt2 hours ago|
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> the only company showing a positive result from all this is NVidia

Everyone upstream of the AI labs should be showing a positive result, that includes all the companies needed to actually build the chips and the datacenters around it. If they aren't too incompetent, they should end up with a pile of cash regardless of where their stock goes when the bubble pops.

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upvoteby rootusrootus8 hours ago|
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And if all of their customers start doing this, then they're going to need to jack up prices to cover all of their costs dealing with the deluge.
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upvoteby inigyou1 hours ago|
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They'll probably just generate the quotes with AI, which is fair.
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upvoteby taneq4 hours ago|
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Normally you’d get 2-3 quotes, meaning suppliers would on average get a sale for every few RFQs they respond to.

Now guys like this twiddle one knob and generate 20x as much RFQ spam, costing suppliers 20x as much. It’s tantamount to a DoS attack.

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