@DashHuang: Imagine AI as digital employees. It's normal for the salary of subordinates managed by one person to be at a 1:1 ratio, or even 1:10, with their own salary. Therefore, it is foreseeable that the cost of AI tokens will match or exceed employee salaries in the future. Of course, the measurement of ROI will be the same as for team size and salary costs.…
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Compares AI token consumption to digital employee salaries, predicts token costs will match or exceed employee wages, and discusses how businesses measure ROI and control costs.
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Think of AI as a digital employee. It’s perfectly normal for the salary of a single human manager’s subordinate employees to be in a 1:1 or even 1:10 ratio with their own salary. Therefore, it is foreseeable that in the future, the cost of AI Token fees will equal or even exceed employee salaries. Of course, the criteria for measuring ROI will also be the same as team size and salary costs. When you hire so many people on your team and pay out so much in salaries, does it actually generate real output?
caoz (@caozlog): A new trend is emerging: more and more companies, whether industry giants or startups, are discovering that employee token consumption is almost out of control. Some giants have already begun to reduce and limit token budgets.
In just a year or two, the explosive bills from encouraging employees to use tokens to boost efficiency have become unbearable for bosses.
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