Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Some new AI companies are using AI so that they only have a couple dozen humans.

Fifteen years ago I blogged about eating your own dog food. Not a nice phrase, but a good point about using my own products. If others should buy and use my products, so should I.

Now I note a good example of people doing this. There are a couple dozen new AI companies that already have products on the market. These new companies only have a couple dozen employees. They use AI to build AI, i.e., they are eating their own dog food.

Aha! This AI stuff must work. How else could just a handful of people build systems that are like those produced by BIG TECH companies with thousands of employees? And if you only have 20 employees, you don’t need much office space, many HR persons, big conference rooms, and all those things that are necessary when there are hundreds and thousands of employees.

And with all those overhead expenses reduced, well, there is a lot of money sitting around for other things. Let our minds wander about what to do with all that money.