AI doesn’t need to make money because AI is like dams: they cost enormous amounts of money, barely make any money back, and they just exist.
Once you’re navigating Billions daily (billions of GPUs, billions of customers, billions of cubic water, billions of dollars), the old revenue/costs == profit doesn’t really apply.
Once you’re in billions, you’re big enough to do whatever you want. Amazon, Netflix and Meta show it daily. They lose enormous amounts of money, make some back, invest into some stuff that sometimes makes 20X the money they spent (Meta bought Insta for $1B; Insta makes $20B annually off of selling your info now), it doesn’t really matter. Netflix can have a $50M show that generates 300 views, they do not care. Here’s more money for you to make another one.
AI is an economic moat which can work, learn and improve literally 24/7. It is the absolute perfect slave. There’s no need for a business model.
We, AI and our current world are passed that. People keep trying to reason within the capitalist framework on how AI can fit, this is futile. It doesn’t need this.
Which is why I keep slamming that we need UBI and earth-friendly homes. That’s the truest understanding here.