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> The exercise cost $0.38 in credits and about 20 seconds

I am intrigued by a future where I can burn seventy dollars per hour watching my cursor click buttons on the computer that I own

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Amazingly my employer continues to pay me hundreds of dollars an hour to search Kagi and type on a computer they paid for and own!

And to think they could be paying you to supervise the buttons clicking themselves instead! The past where the lack of a human meant a lack of input is over, all hail the future where a lack of a human could mean wasteful and counterproductive input instead

What I'm hearing is that now they can fire my manager

i think you’d get fired and your boss will be demoted to your position.

a smart take

You wouldn’t sit there watching your paid human assistant work would you? So why would you sit watching your paid AI assistant?

I think the general idea is that you’re off doing something more productive, more relaxing or more profitable!

> why would you sit watching your paid AI assistant?

> it kept the wrong date and declared itself successful

This is the worst it’s ever going to be, though. Probably a better use of time to make plans and preparations based on its fifth iteration or similar.

I like the idea of seeing an app that charges me electrician rates to move my cursor around to book me on the wrong flight and thinking “I should plan for the day that I wake up and simply have to mumble ‘do job’ in the general direction of a device”

A human assistant would have been fired already.

i don’t think anyone is going to fire anyone willing to work for 38 cents for any reason.

Seventy dollars per hour equates to paying a full time employee roughly $145k per year

We can probably assume this will come down by at least an order of magnitude.

Aren't a lot of the current LLMs and AI technologies heavily subsidized to the point where turning a profit sometime in the next decade or so might actually mean increasing the prices?

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/27/openai-might-raise-the-pri...

> The New York Times, citing internal OpenAI docs, reports that OpenAI is planning to raise the price of individual ChatGPT subscriptions from $20 per month to $22 per month by the end of the year. A steeper increase will come over the next five years; by 2029, OpenAI expects it’ll charge $44 per month for ChatGPT Plus.

> The aggressive moves reflect pressure on OpenAI from investors to narrow its losses. While the company’s monthly revenue reached $300 million in August, according to the New York Times, OpenAI expects to lose roughly $5 billion this year. Expenditures like staffing, office rent, and AI training infrastructure are to blame. ChatGPT alone was at one point reportedly costing OpenAI $700,000 per day.

You can assume literally anything

I see you missed yesterday, when Tog's Paradox was discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41913437

I did - thanks for the link!

Imagine the finger wear and tear you’ll avoid though.

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