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by gazchop 523 days ago
I await JobCentre being filled up with prompt engineers in about 2 years.
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£14 billion divided by 13,250 jobs = £1,056,604

50% gets spent on hard assets like AI super computers, buildings, infrastructure: £528,302

You lose 50% to operating overheads: £264,151

Each employed person averaging £60k a year gives you 13,250 people employed for 4.4 years.

What's left at the end of 4.4 years? A 4.4 year old super computer that is twice as slow as the best and costs twice as much to run, 13,250 people scrambling for funding/work, a few nice papers, a tonne of failed start-ups with questionable IP and very little value to the tax payer.

Because they did a 2 week Bootcamp in Prompt Engineering and been on 120k+ for the last 2 years.