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AI Training Costs: The Staggering Cost of Teaching Machines to Think

You want to train a dog. Normally, you'd buy some treats, invest a bit of time and patience, and soon your four-legged friend would be sitting on command.  But what if training your dog suddenly cost as much as building a skyscraper?  Welcome to the crazy world of AI training! The Insane World of AI Training Costs: The Staggering Cost of Teaching Machines to Think From Cute Beginnings to Gigantic Wallets There was a time when you could train an AI on a small computer cluster - as cute as a puppy learning its first tricks. But those days are long gone. Today, training an AI is more like trying to teach a whale to dance - in an Olympic-sized swimming pool filled with liquid gold. Sam Altman of OpenAI recently dropped the bombshell: Training ChatGPT cost "significantly more than $100 million". Ouch! That's like spending the equivalent of a luxury car for every "Sit!" and "Stay!" The Cost Explosion: When Bits Become More Expensive Than Diamonds Le...