Uber chief warns no link yet between AI tokenmaxxing and shipping successful products — company pumps the brakes on all-out AI spending

Uber chief warns no link yet between AI tokenmaxxing and shipping successful products — company pumps the brakes on all-out AI spending

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rluker5 Meh. Could be the tokenmaxxers just weren't good at tokenmaxxing. Maybe if they had a golden child of tokenmaxxing they would have had some great returns on what they spent. We might have to wait a few years for the children that grew up tokenmaxxing for this golden child to enter the workforce. The golden child of prophecy. Reply

usertests rluker5 said: We might have to wait a few years for the children that grew up tokenmaxxing for this golden child to enter the workforce. The golden child of prophecy. The one. Neo. Reply

King_V gasp .. An executive who (probably) pushed this kind of fad behavior is realizing that it's been very cost-ineffective? Honestly, it probably puts him ahead of lots of executives. But far behind people actually having to deal with being forced to overuse an unreliable tool. AI is being treated as the proverbial hammer , and every work task is being redefined as a nail. But it took THIS long to wake up to it? Reply

PEnns You know the whole message is pure junk when they start using words with "XXing" in it. Trying to appeal toe XXing generation, pathetically. Reply

Notton Uber? The company that couldn't turn a profit even after exploiting all those "contractors" and was 100% subsidized by investors pumping endless money into it? All the while breaking local laws and not being punished for it? That Uber? Excuse me while my eyes roll into the back of my skull. Reply

Pierce2623 Notton said: Uber? The company that couldn't turn a profit even after exploiting all those "contractors" and was 100% subsidized by investors pumping endless money into it? All the while breaking local laws and not being punished for it? That Uber? Excuse me while my eyes roll into the back of my skull. Yeah the company that couldn’t turn a profit when all they were responsible for was a GPS app with billions of income. Reply

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