Most of the posts claiming either are marketing on one and denial on the other.
Many of us working for large companies know that AI started being introduced in ways that would not affect productivity, profit, employment, or GDP numbers —email summaries, Teams transcriptions, etc., Some things that are somewhat useful, mostly not.
We are now at a point where companies have started finding more "productive" uses. In part because the tools have gotten better, in part because businesses have had more
Will the tools still be worth it once these AI companies start charging for the real costs of this tech?
The hope is likely that by the time they start charging what it actually costs, the businesses in question will forget that these jobs used to be done by humans at a specific cost. If they just raise the rates slowly enough, it will become a "required" budget line that simply increases year by year, and nobody will question the fact that in year 10 it's 400% more than it was in year one. I've certainly seen that happen with other tech that starts out affordable, gets entrenched, then becomes ridiculously ex
Many of us working for large companies know that AI started being introduced in ways that would not affect productivity, profit, employment, or GDP numbers —email summaries, Teams transcriptions, etc., Some things that are somewhat useful, mostly not.
We are now at a point where companies have started finding more "productive" uses. In part because the tools have gotten better, in part because businesses have had more
What the heck is Ramp?
Or at least it shouldn't be unless a manager listened to some stupid consultants advise about saving money on mission critical aspects of the company.
Have you never worked in an office?
Will the tools still be worth it once these AI companies start charging for the real costs of this tech?
The hope is likely that by the time they start charging what it actually costs, the businesses in question will forget that these jobs used to be done by humans at a specific cost. If they just raise the rates slowly enough, it will become a "required" budget line that simply increases year by year, and nobody will question the fact that in year 10 it's 400% more than it was in year one. I've certainly seen that happen with other tech that starts out affordable, gets entrenched, then becomes ridiculously ex