Re:Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
by red75prime on Monday September 07, 2026 @12:01PM
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Investing in training a person gets you one trained person. Investing in training an ML system gets you a cloneable ML system that can be scaled on demand much faster. ROI might change quickly.
Re:Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
by HarHarVeryFunny on Monday September 07, 2026 @01:36PM
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Sure, but we're simply not at the point, maybe never will be, where lack of employees is the bottleneck to chip production. A fab takes billions of dollars and multiple years to construct - there are many constraints.
But, the production expansion rate of none of these companies is being limited by lack of trained personnel, and if it were it would surely be faster to hire/train more humans since robots are still very far from human dexterity, not to mention intelligence.
Robots and AI are tools of automation, a way to replace humans with machines, but not all the problems in the world are bottle-necked by lack of humans, or the cost of humans.