https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/ai-token-spending-businesses-431ee94a?st=UcoUZL
First, there was #tokenmaxxing, whereby American businesses encouraged their workers to use as much AI as possible. Then came the bill.
Companies started to realize they need to be more careful about counting their tokens, the units that measure AI use. And that’s hard to do: A recent study found that only 11% of nearly 400 businesses surveyed were able to accurately forecast AI spending.
Have they bothered teaching their employees how AI tokens work? You can save / spend tokens simply by using specific words, punctuation, or sentence structure in basic queries. SAP's approach was to rush into it which is a strategy you'd think they would have learned from by now. Most of the people using AI at SAP are categorized as basic general users.
@cv Not again, Tommy. Keep your hatred to yourself.
Chuck is counting the tokens.
Boomers support layoffs of young workers and immigrants to keep their pension safe. Nothing to see here.
@cs at least they are keeping the immigrants out. That is all that matters. I would prefer Chuck Klein getting another million than an Indian getting another cent to send to India. We need to give immigrants bad performance reviews so they get less in appraisals and we can get rid of them when the layoffs are announced.
There is a Greek proverb saying that society grows great when old people plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. At SAP, we have management which is mostly men over 45 and 50 that make more than €250k a year with bonuses. All they want to do is go after the jobs of young people and cheat them out of getting a yearly appraisals so they can get more next year.
Who's counting the tokens? Your manager and HR so they can decide whether you should be promoted or laid off depending on Christian Klein's mood in February.
Next, Chinese models undercut American frontier firms to secure what is left of the U.S. economy, which is gradually losing white-collar roles to automation now quickened by AI automation. A lopsided economy serves big tech best, relying on a blend of inexpensive labor abroad, AI automation driven by Chinese models, Taiwanese chips, … Americans face inflation, joblessness, and inadequate healthcare while the kleptocracy drains whatever remains in their treasury.