So far, the drumbeat of AI in the workplace has been about how technology will replace workers and cut costs.
But an executive at tech firm Nvidia recently revealed that the cost of AI computing “is far beyond the costs of the employees,” according to an Axios article. And Amos Bar-Joseph, CEO of Swan AI, recently said on LinkedIn that the company’s AI bill hit $113,000 for a single month of data for a four-person team.
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