Are you better value for money than AI?
Comment AI vendors are starting to say the quiet part out loud. As technology advances, it seems more about controlling costs and headcount.
OpenAI chief financial officer (CFO) Sarah Friar was reported discussing the possibility of pricier tiers for the company's services and justifying four-figure tiers – quite a jump from the $200 tier recently announced – by working out the value of the service provided by the assistant and charging accordingly.
This raises the question: why recruit somebody if an AI can assist lawyers as a virtual paralegal, help academics with their work, or do something as mundane as booking travel?
Friar reportedly said: "How might you have had to finance that otherwise? Would you have had to go out and hire more people? How do you think about the replacement cost to some degree, and then how do we create a fair pricing for that?"
The Information recently reported that Microsoft had begun to highlight the payroll benefits of AI as allowing enterprises to slow or stop hiring staff while making it easier to lay off workers and still maintain productivity.
