IBM CEO Arvind Krishna walked through some napkin math on Big Tech's AI data center spending — and raised some doubts on if it'll prove profitable.
  • IBM’s CEO walked through some napkin math on data centers— and said that there’s “no way” to turn a profit at current costs.
  • “$8 trillion of CapEx means you need roughly $800 billion of profit just to pay for the interest,” Arvind Krishna told “Decoder.”
  • Krishna was skeptical of that current tech would reach AGI, putting the likelihood between 0-1%.
  • Sal@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I get massive productivity gains every day from AI

    You mean heavily hallucinated code you’re gonna spend more time fixing than if you did it by hand?

    incredibly useful image generation that dramatically speeds up the work of designers

    AKA: Stealing from hard working artists to not have to pay them. As an artist, go fuck yourself.

    suno, which can generate stems that my musician friends are regularly using instead of having to hunt through the Internet for days for the right trumpet melody

    Again, stealing from hard working artists (this time musicians). Hard fucking pass.

    Also, you definitely sound like you wrote this with AI. Mods, send this clanker to the scrap heap.