First, we’re the humans. Investments into the existence and wellbeing of humans don’t have to be justified by an ROI. It’s kind of all we’ve been doing since we came out of the caves.
A tool on the other hand needs to justify it’s existence by saving us more time and money than it cost to make or enabling us to do things we couldn’t do before, otherwise it’s a shitty tool.
Second, the LLM that claimed Frankenstein was slop took tens or hundreds of billions to make. And that cost doesn’t scale with the demand. To be able to run even one instance of it you have to spend the entire lump sum of training the model. On the other hand you can train one more human if you need one more skilled worker and you don’t have to redevelop the entire curriculum from scratch to do that.
a human takes tens (maybe hundreds depending on school) of thousands of dollars of training and can’t even be copied
First, we’re the humans. Investments into the existence and wellbeing of humans don’t have to be justified by an ROI. It’s kind of all we’ve been doing since we came out of the caves. A tool on the other hand needs to justify it’s existence by saving us more time and money than it cost to make or enabling us to do things we couldn’t do before, otherwise it’s a shitty tool.
Second, the LLM that claimed Frankenstein was slop took tens or hundreds of billions to make. And that cost doesn’t scale with the demand. To be able to run even one instance of it you have to spend the entire lump sum of training the model. On the other hand you can train one more human if you need one more skilled worker and you don’t have to redevelop the entire curriculum from scratch to do that.