since reasoning models and agentic AI can rack up quite a bill
文章提醒了一个常被忽视的约束条件：AI的使用成本。在讨论AI替代人类时，人们往往默认AI是低成本方案，但推理模型和智能体的高昂算力成本意味着，仅凭能力覆盖并不等于经济上的可行替代，成本收益分析仍是决定性门槛。
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The cost of understanding what happens in a video has dropped by a factor of roughly 40, while the quality of that understanding has improved dramatically.
大多数人认为AI视频分析仍处于早期阶段且成本高昂，但作者指出AI视频分析成本已大幅下降40倍，质量反而提升。这一反直觉观点暗示视频分析可能已经跨越了实用性的门槛，将催生全新的应用类别，挑战了人们对AI视频处理能力的传统认知。
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By using SAM, the Alta team has been able to process more than 20 million images without incurring exorbitant costs, allowing them to focus on building the best possible product for their users.
大多数人可能认为初创公司需要依赖昂贵的第三方API来处理大量图像，但作者通过使用开源SAM模型，实现了大规模图像处理而不产生巨额成本。这一观点挑战了'高质量AI服务必须昂贵'的行业共识，展示了开源模型在成本效益方面的优势。
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- Sep 2023
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For a socially and economically sustainable growth path, the labor displacement in the sectors ofapplication must be counterbalanced by job creation within the same and other sector
it's 2023 and I don't see anyone planning for this massive job displacement, I think that the hollywood strikes are a sign of things to come
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