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AI is relatively inexpensive today because it cannot perform many tasks that top human workers can perform.
Dwarkesh Patel · Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x · 3 Aug 2026
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“The reason AI is relatively cheap right now is that AI just can't do a lot of things that top humans can do.”Play from 6:25Report a misattribution
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