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Animats • yesterday at 11:08 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> Whoever claims to have skill in AI is very shortsighted. Whatever skill you thought you had six months ago can now be achieved with a simple six-word prompt in a standard workspace.

Apparently. Remember "prompt engineering?" That was the next big job for about 15 minutes.

It takes a lot of tokens to run a multi-agent system, though. AI may hit economic limits. Progress was achieved on hard mathematical problems at a high token cost. More than the operating budgets of some college math departments.


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margalabargala • yesterday at 11:57 PM

> at a high token cost. More than the operating budgets of some college math departments.

Is that in API cost or in subscription cost or in actual cost to the LLM owner?

somewhereoutth • yesterday at 11:55 PM

Wouldn't it be ironic if, after all this, it was discovered that the most economical way of producing some fundamental 'unit of intelligence' was to feed/clothe/entertain a human?

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