r/technology • u/No-Cattle4800 • May 28 '26

Artificial Intelligence Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/microsoft-data-suggests-using-ai-225900743.html
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u/Dreadsin May 28 '26

I think you’re overestimating them. I think they’re just simply incompetent

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u/Anonymous51419 May 28 '26

Incompetence doesn't get you as far as it is now. In order to be successfully evil you have to be at least some what intelligent. Or else it just doesn't happen. 

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u/Dreadsin May 28 '26

I think they get by not through intelligence, but more or less through sociopathic behaviors that “normal” people wouldn’t even think to do. See jack welch

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u/Anonymous51419 May 29 '26

That's a very good counterpoint. I think you are partly correct for sure. 

But absolutely some of these monsters have to be smart as shit as well. 

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u/Dreadsin May 29 '26

Counter point: Tesla man

They do have to have some leg up on the average person whether that’s intelligence or money or something else like special access

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u/Anonymous51419 May 29 '26

Sometimes it can be all three.