Comment by forgotaccount3
2 days ago
> My mother is in her 60s and uses Gemini every day.
If your mother is at all like my mother, she isn't burning through nearly as many tokens as developers who are utilizing AI effectively.
Datacenters aren't being built for the handful of people using a hundred or two tokens a month but the fields where each user is utilizing 10k+
> she isn't burning through nearly as many tokens as developers who are utilizing AI effectively
I don't think this takes codex into account, but the 'What they’re using it for' section shows there's definitely a huge demand outside the use case of programming: https://openai.com/index/how-people-are-using-chatgpt/