AI Good and Bad
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mat200
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does not seem like abandoning OpenAI and Anthropic, just seems that he knows it is obvious that other Nations can not trust the USA anymore and need to build their own AI industry .. with NVDA chips of course ..
mat200
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Lesson .. Back up, Back up, Back up, .. back up to offline offsite ..
mat200
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( basically, beyond $29 you must find a project budget that covers you )
Effective October 1, 2026, Accenture reduced its central funding for Claude to $29 per employee per month, shifting the cost of any usage above that amount to individual projects or teams via a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). This policy change has caused significant disruption for heavy users, with some employees reporting monthly costs previously reaching $500 to $1,000 and scrambling to secure project budgets or upgrade to Premium plans to maintain access.
The company maintains that licenses are reviewed periodically based on business priorities, role requirements, and usage patterns, meaning that securing a project budget does not guarantee indefinite access. While some staff are attempting to upgrade to Claude Premium plans—which include $250 in token usage per week—reports indicate that upgrade options are sometimes blocked, and at least one employee’s access was revoked entirely under the new constraints.
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Effective October 1, 2026, Accenture reduced its central funding for Claude to $29 per employee per month, shifting the cost of any usage above that amount to individual projects or teams via a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). This policy change has caused significant disruption for heavy users, with some employees reporting monthly costs previously reaching $500 to $1,000 and scrambling to secure project budgets or upgrade to Premium plans to maintain access.
The company maintains that licenses are reviewed periodically based on business priorities, role requirements, and usage patterns, meaning that securing a project budget does not guarantee indefinite access. While some staff are attempting to upgrade to Claude Premium plans—which include $250 in token usage per week—reports indicate that upgrade options are sometimes blocked, and at least one employee’s access was revoked entirely under the new constraints.
Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per Month
Some employees who spend as much as $1,000 on Claude usage each month are scrambling to find ways to maintain access to the tool.
www.404media.co
As in politics, reality can slap you right upside the head if you don’t use it
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Sam Altman: "My predictions were way off. Even after developing AI, the world hasn't changed a bit, we've got this $100 trillion payment obligation hanging over us, and lately, we're getting sued left and right. Honestly, we might be totally screwed."
"I thought releasing GPT-4 would instantly transform the world, but that was completely my mistake"—OpenAI's top exec reveals the "biggest barrier stopping AI from radically changing society"
"The guy who hyped up 'AI will steal all jobs and remake the world overnight!' is shockingly waving the white flag." OpenAI boss Sam Altman drops a bombshell in a podcast, exposing the "harsh reality that hit tech geeks hard"—here it is
・"I thought GPT-4 would immediately flip the software industry on its head." I was convinced that unleashing such a disruptive intelligence would cause old business models to crumble in a flash, replaced by a whole new world. But reality was different. Altman himself admits straight-up, "I completely misjudged the speed at which society changes," throwing in the towel.
・I underestimated society's and the economy's "overwhelming inertia (laziness)."
No matter how otherworldly the AI that shows up, people in the world just keep doing their jobs the same way as yesterday and buying stuff from the same old companies. Human society doesn't move as nimbly or rationally as tech nerds like to think.
・"Changing human behavior" is 100 times harder than building AI
"I figured if we made a convenient, amazing tool, everyone would jump on it right away"—that's the biggest delusion of tech geeks (tech idiots). Getting ingrained human habits or outdated organizational rules to change turns out to be an insanely tough challenge.
・The tech is humanity's most powerful ever, but "the human side" can't keep up
AI itself is still the most insane technology humans have ever invented, no doubt. But updating the social and economic systems to handle it takes way longer than anyone imagined.
・In short, "The mastermind who was all fired up thinking 'Build super AI and the world flips in an instant!' is now staring down the stubborn inertia of humans who keep sluggishly choosing 'the same old ways' no matter how mind-blowing the tech we throw at them—and realizing, 'Making humans change their behavior patterns is way more of an impossible game than evolving the tech itself,' rolling his eyes in defeat."
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Sam Altman: "My predictions were way off. Even after developing AI, the world hasn't changed a bit, we've got this $100 trillion payment obligation hanging over us, and lately, we're getting sued left and right. Honestly, we might be totally screwed."
"I thought releasing GPT-4 would instantly transform the world, but that was completely my mistake"—OpenAI's top exec reveals the "biggest barrier stopping AI from radically changing society"
"The guy who hyped up 'AI will steal all jobs and remake the world overnight!' is shockingly waving the white flag." OpenAI boss Sam Altman drops a bombshell in a podcast, exposing the "harsh reality that hit tech geeks hard"—here it is
・"I thought GPT-4 would immediately flip the software industry on its head." I was convinced that unleashing such a disruptive intelligence would cause old business models to crumble in a flash, replaced by a whole new world. But reality was different. Altman himself admits straight-up, "I completely misjudged the speed at which society changes," throwing in the towel.
・I underestimated society's and the economy's "overwhelming inertia (laziness)."
No matter how otherworldly the AI that shows up, people in the world just keep doing their jobs the same way as yesterday and buying stuff from the same old companies. Human society doesn't move as nimbly or rationally as tech nerds like to think.
・"Changing human behavior" is 100 times harder than building AI
"I figured if we made a convenient, amazing tool, everyone would jump on it right away"—that's the biggest delusion of tech geeks (tech idiots). Getting ingrained human habits or outdated organizational rules to change turns out to be an insanely tough challenge.
・The tech is humanity's most powerful ever, but "the human side" can't keep up
AI itself is still the most insane technology humans have ever invented, no doubt. But updating the social and economic systems to handle it takes way longer than anyone imagined.
・In short, "The mastermind who was all fired up thinking 'Build super AI and the world flips in an instant!' is now staring down the stubborn inertia of humans who keep sluggishly choosing 'the same old ways' no matter how mind-blowing the tech we throw at them—and realizing, 'Making humans change their behavior patterns is way more of an impossible game than evolving the tech itself,' rolling his eyes in defeat."