lol for $20,000/month you could get half a dozen *actual* PhDs on 24-hour retainer - ThreadSky

colindickey.com • 21 hours ago

lol for $20,000/month you could get half a dozen *actual* PhDs on 24-hour retainer

Source: OpenAI executives have told some investors about plans for a $2,000/month agent, a $10,000/month agent for coding, and a $20,000/month PhD-level agent (The Information)

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someoneontwitter.bsky.social•20 hours ago

and there was me worried about losing my coding job - turns out i'm cheaper than an ai.

baudi.bsky.social•20 hours ago

@edzitron.com this is sure to make them profitable 😂

puckingladylike.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Theoretically if you wanted them to work 8 hours days/5 days a week and be fully staffed you'd only need 4 full timers and one part timer. You could have an additional float to cover vacation time and STILL be under budget.

blurplebleb.bsky.social•18 hours ago

But that wouldn’t satisfy their deep-seated misanthropy

davidprecht.bsky.social•20 hours ago

The PhD agent would be the only one of these worth a damn since diagnosis can be difficult in large hospital settings
Getting an AI system to provide diagnoses or ask further specific, clarifying questions could actually be a good use case for AI but, instead, Tweety Bird with big naturals

porgus.bsky.social•18 hours ago

PhDs are absolutely DESPERATE to talk about niche shit for barely any pay. They fuckin love it.

akma.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Sign me up!

calder12.bsky.social•19 hours ago

You shouldn't be able to get anyone, for any job, on call 24/7 for $40k a year.

colindickey.com•19 hours ago

calder12.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Yeah I got that lol. But it is kind of indicative of how we actually pay people here.

boltraz.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Imagine paying real people who can push the field even further with your funding, vs a data gatcha ball machine

stevewoz.bsky.social•19 hours ago

What is this cap? It was never reposted by me. There must be some other Steve Wozniak.

colindickey.com•19 hours ago

I have no idea what you mean, but if you really are Steve Wozniak, you used to live on the same street as my junior high friend Patrick Collins, whose parents were both doctors. He used to love trick or treating at your house (full bars!). What happened to him? His name is impossible to google.

backintheb4times.bsky.social•20 hours ago

The best part will be when the contract runs out. They jack up the price and institutions either have to pony up or lose access.

benwurgaft.bsky.social•21 hours ago

to be clear, you would be a moral monster, but you could get them.

colindickey.com•21 hours ago

Maybe not 24-hour on call status, but I think you could quite ethically pay, say, 5 people with PhDs $4,000/month to do on-demand research for you.

bmceuen.bsky.social•21 hours ago

As a PhD haver, I would be on call 24/7 if I was paid $4,000/month

benwurgaft.bsky.social•21 hours ago

For sure, but the comparison made the expectations seem rather more stiff.

daphsci.bsky.social•20 hours ago

typical post from a dickey

colindickey.com•20 hours ago

sentientpotato.bsky.social•21 hours ago

on-demand up to a point

maybe 15-ish hours per week is about right at that rate

(which is a lot, to be clear! and way more value than the AI offering! but not enough to buy their full work week is my point)

colindickey.com•20 hours ago

benwurgaft.bsky.social•20 hours ago

To be clear I meant your imaginary hypothetical person and not you!

benwurgaft.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Obviously employing phds for less than 10k/month plus a free apartment in the Village is monstrous.

sentientpotato.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Also... I was just musing? Sorry if I gave a more serious impression

Happy Wednesday y'all

showerabsolute.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Bit of timezone work and you're good

ajp35.bsky.social•20 hours ago

There's a tie in here, somewhere, with the rise of at-will Ai replacing human workers that doesn't align with actual ROI/budgeting sense & the WFH worker empowerment that arose and is now in a targeted rollback.