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Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free (futurism.com)
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[โ€“] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Computerphile demonstrated this using copilot(timestamp 20:50), where he created a screensaver sort of thing with just a few prompt back and forth, and that used up 2 million input tokens and 47k output token. That's about $6 to $10 just to create that screensaver.

[โ€“] Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I'd rather buy a used php book from my local bookstore for $10