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Token value varies enormously by use case
  • Routine support tokens worth pennies
  • Strategic business decisions worth millions
  • Future models may price based on value delivered
  • Example: AI pharmaceutical advice could be worth millions per suggestion
Dario AmodeiDwarkesh Patel01:26:00

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Think about what is the value of the tokens that the model outputs when someone calls them up and says, 'My Mac isn't working,' or something, the model's like, 'restart it.' Someone hasn't heard that before, but the model said that 10 million times. Maybe that's worth like a dollar or a few cents or something. Dario Amodei
If the model goes to one of the pharmaceutical companies and it says, 'Oh, you know, this molecule you're developing, you should take the aromatic ring from that end of the molecule and put it on that end of the molecule. If you do that, wonderful things will happen.' Those tokens could be worth tens of millions of dollars. Dario Amodei

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