jepvr t1_ixxw942 wrote on November 27, 2022 at 5:56 AM

Reply to comment by YaAbsolyutnoNikto in Nvidia has created a text-to-3D generative-AI that will allow people to make high-resolution 3D models from just text prompts. by lughnasadh

>By “resource” people normally mean money, not human brains.
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>I'm simply pointing out that human brains are considered as resources

You're kind of doing a bad job of it. :D

YaAbsolyutnoNikto t1_ixxwksz wrote on November 27, 2022 at 6:00 AM

Are you really not getting what I’m talking about?

Human brains by themselves are not resources, but the salaries to pay for them are… fewer brains, fewer salaries, fewer resources…

jepvr t1_ixxwruf wrote on November 27, 2022 at 6:02 AM

Six of one, half dozen of the other. You're splitting hairs.

And as I pointed out, there's going to be much more hardware resources going on, plus the humans to run the AI. And on top of all that, the output is going to be shit for probably the next couple of decades. So all this is a moot discussion.

YaAbsolyutnoNikto t1_ixxxgaj wrote on November 27, 2022 at 6:10 AM

I’m splitting hairs? That’s ironic for you to say. You’re the one pretending that resources are not financial resources at the foremost.

The transition will not happen as long as the added productivity is smaller than added costs or, keeping productivity similar, as long as the cost of adopting AI is greater than the cost of paying the salaries.

jepvr t1_ixy00c7 wrote on November 27, 2022 at 6:42 AM

I was never pretending anything. Of course everything is ultimately financial. Such a statement is so obvious to not need stating unless you think the person you are talking to is a total moron (in which case why even bother trying to have an intellectual conversation?)

What I'm saying is that I do not believe the OP was talking about that sort of resource. Hell, they didn't even say development, and I think it very likely they were talking about runtime. Most people don't use the term to mean "resource intensive" when they're talking about "financially expensive." It's more typically used in the context of hardware resources. I think it's likely that's what the OP was meaning.