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The "3-5" is certainly overstated, but you definitely can hire ONE PhD for that price, just as you can hire a SWE for $120K or a knowledge worker for $24K. The
by DebtDeflation 2y ago
The "3-5" is certainly overstated, but you definitely can hire ONE PhD for that price, just as you can hire a SWE for $120K or a knowledge worker for $24K. The point is that from a CEO's perspective "replacing all the humans with AI" looks a lot less compelling when the AI costs the same as a human worker or even a significant fraction of a human worker.
- zeroonetwothree 2y agoAlthough remember that the cost to the company is more like double the actual salary.
- DebtDeflation 2y agoAgain, irrelevant. We're talking about orders of magnitude here. Current pricing is in line with most SaaS pricing - tens of dollars to hundreds of dollars per seat per month. Now they're suddenly talking about thousands of dollars to tens of thousands of dollars per seat per month.
- sailfast 2y agoBeing able to control their every move, scale them to whatever capacity is required, avoid payroll taxes, health plans and surprise co-pay costs, equity sharing, etc might make this worthwhile for many companies. That said, the trade-off is that you're basically hiring consultants since they really work for OpenAI :)
- from-nibly 2y agoThe benefit to an emoloyee is that you don't have to control their every move. They can do work while you aren't even thinking about the problem they are solving.
- Izikiel43 2y agoThe AI can work 24/7 though.
- mirsadm 2y agoDoing what?
- cutemonster 2y agoGenerating prompts to itself and acting on them? (Not saying it's a good idea)
- booleandilemma 2y agoDon't you need to be awake to feed it prompts?