alt Hacker NewsI don't think any 'interesting thought' that serves as a conclusion to an article should begin like so:
| 'With radiologists, I’m totally speculating and I have no idea what the actual workflow of a radiologist involves...'
Speculation from a place of ignorance is suitable for bar-side musings, not an article that wants us to take it seriously.
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MarkusQ • yesterday at 6:39 PM
That's part of a quotation, as clearly stated in the article.
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Also as noted in the prior dupe, the article also misunderstands it's own topic, as explained in (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox):
In economics, the Jevons paradox occurs when technological advancements make a resource more efficient *to use*; however, as the cost of *using the resource drops*, if demand is highly price elastic [PED], this results in overall demand [for the resource] increasing.
The cost to use tokens is already zero or deeply negative, depending on your accounting. And the author is mistaking the cost of 'creating/extracting the resource' (token generation economics) with cost of 'using the resource' (calling an API). I don't think we'll understand the true cost of, and demand for AI services for quite some time.