[bilekas]

> Duration: 96 hours (billable: 2.1 trillion tokens)

Now there's a metric that would make my boss nervous.

> Total inference spend across all parties during the incident window was $1.7M, which Marketing has asked us to start describing as “a record investment in autonomous customer assurance.”

This is too funny.

[mawadev]

I think at some point we need a different or split up currency/economy, because these values make no sense. Just consider how this inference cost 1.062.500 tomatoes ($1.6) in the physical world.

[XorNot]

Except it sort of does? You're paying for the food and shelter of the people engaged in all the manual labor in the supply chain which produces the electricity, for example.

Some of them likely eat tomatoes, so for that electricity you need to (indirectly) supply a certain number of tomatoes.

Which is the part about "what will human labor be worth?" that gets missed in all the AI discussion: it's the only thing the economy ultimately values.