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At this point in time I just want to see what happens to a corp if they reduce their headcount by 95% in 2 weeks. Fascinating experiment.

x86x87 3y ago
Elon on standby to reduce twitter by 96%
- JshWright 3y ago
  This whole situation can be neatly summed up as the OpenAI board saying "Hey Elon, hold my beer!"
asylteltine 3y ago
You gotta wonder if they really need all those people… would be a genius way to get attrition numbers up without paying severance. Man this entire thing is so overblown. Who cares if a ceo was fired all the “””tech influencer””” wannabes are just hyping up this story for views.
- alchemist1e9 3y ago
  I do wonder what exactly almost 800 people do at OpenAI. Some approximate breakdown by job function would be very interesting.
  - saulpw 3y ago
    Yeah I think anyone on HN could write that website in a weekend. With uncensored GPT-4 you wouldn't need more than 10 people on staff and most of those would just be there to fix the printer. Edit: I thought this would obviously be satire. Guess not..
    - code_runner 3y ago
      You have to gather and store the data. You have to design and experiment with the model architecture. You have to train the various experiments. You have to now invent a way to serve this at scale. You do care about safety by default, so you employ people for that. You need a team to market and design the products. You have an api and you’re working on additional things like API hooks to call into services, which actually involves more models. Now you have all of the standard web app at massive scale issues. You need to design, implement, and serve a frontend as well as the api. You need a sales team to build relationships with enterprises and startups etc etc. you need a billing team. Don’t forget about whisper, TTS, dalle etc. you need to do this for all of those as well! You’re also doing this faster and better than the rest of the industry. You also need lawyers, office staff, support, etc.
  - jtriangle 3y ago
    At any company, the square root of the number of people working there do 80% of the work. So, more people makes that group larger, slowly. That doesn't mean that a company can just cull the rest of the employees not in that group mind, just that a small number of them are responsible for most of the value while the rest work as a support structure to allow them to do what they do.
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x86x87 3y ago

Elon on standby to reduce twitter by 96%

JshWright 3y ago
This whole situation can be neatly summed up as the OpenAI board saying "Hey Elon, hold my beer!"

asylteltine 3y ago

You gotta wonder if they really need all those people… would be a genius way to get attrition numbers up without paying severance. Man this entire thing is so overblown. Who cares if a ceo was fired all the “””tech influencer””” wannabes are just hyping up this story for views.

alchemist1e9 3y ago
I do wonder what exactly almost 800 people do at OpenAI. Some approximate breakdown by job function would be very interesting.
- saulpw 3y ago
  Yeah I think anyone on HN could write that website in a weekend. With uncensored GPT-4 you wouldn't need more than 10 people on staff and most of those would just be there to fix the printer. Edit: I thought this would obviously be satire. Guess not..
  - code_runner 3y ago
    You have to gather and store the data. You have to design and experiment with the model architecture. You have to train the various experiments. You have to now invent a way to serve this at scale. You do care about safety by default, so you employ people for that. You need a team to market and design the products. You have an api and you’re working on additional things like API hooks to call into services, which actually involves more models. Now you have all of the standard web app at massive scale issues. You need to design, implement, and serve a frontend as well as the api. You need a sales team to build relationships with enterprises and startups etc etc. you need a billing team. Don’t forget about whisper, TTS, dalle etc. you need to do this for all of those as well! You’re also doing this faster and better than the rest of the industry. You also need lawyers, office staff, support, etc.
- jtriangle 3y ago
  At any company, the square root of the number of people working there do 80% of the work. So, more people makes that group larger, slowly. That doesn't mean that a company can just cull the rest of the employees not in that group mind, just that a small number of them are responsible for most of the value while the rest work as a support structure to allow them to do what they do.

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