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Ian Silber

What Ian Silber thinks about OpenAI

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Designer who led product design at OpenAI, including ChatGPT and Codex; previously at Artifact and, for eight years, Instagram.

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  1. Our readingWorking at OpenAI as a designer does not require being technical, but it does require being really curious and interested in how somebody might actually use the product.

    design

    Their wordsyou don't have to be like technical to work here, but I think you have to be really curious and really interested to see like how might somebody actually use this

    ↗Ian Silber - What it's like designing at OpenAIyoutube.com 1st of 17 in this recording

  3. Our readingDesigners have to think a lot about how to expose what the models can now do in a way people understand, and how to give them the tools to do real, meaningful work.

    design

    Their wordsI think as designers we have to think a lot about well how do you actually expose that in a way that people understand what they can do with it and how do you give them the tools so that they can go out and do real meaningful work right in ChatGPT

    ↗Ian Silber - What it's like designing at OpenAIyoutube.com 14th of 17 in this recording