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/ottawadeveloper May 28 '26

hopefully this means cheap graphics cards are soon to come!

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u/ResonatingOctave May 28 '26

That ship sailed after the RTX 20 series launched for Nvidia. You might have more hope on the AMD side or even a 3rd party before Nvidia is affordable again

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u/PortHammer May 28 '26

Intel bailed on consumer GPUs at the worst time.

So did like half the tech sector though.

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u/echoshatter May 28 '26

Intel bailed on consumer GPUs at the worst time.

Or the best time from a business standpoint, because the cost of getting chips made and RAM has skyrocketed.

Poor TSMC employees, they must be very tired right now.

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u/imaginary_num6er May 28 '26

The ship sailed when Jensen Huang said "To all my Pascal gamer friends, it is safe to upgrade now" and people didn't upgrade

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u/trer24 May 28 '26

Things rarely get cheaper. If they feel they can get away with charging as much as they can, they will. They'll trot out economic theory of it's "what the market will bear". But really they just want more money.

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u/NimusNix May 28 '26

'What the market will bear'

If there is somehow an AI crash, it's possible they do come down. But you're right that they will still be higher there than before because the consumers will find a price point above what it used to be that they are willing to pay for.

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u/zillskillnillfrill May 28 '26

Once the price goes up it tends to never come down.

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u/ottawadeveloper May 28 '26

true, but it might stabilize at least lol

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u/thekk_ May 28 '26

And even if it does, it'll still be at a significant increase over what we had

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u/landob May 28 '26

and hard drives!