AI, even in it's current state, is probably overkill to replace a CEO.
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I've never worked for a company where the CEO was a value add.
I still don't even know what they actually do that's worth all that money, and I've looked. The main 'skill' seems to be schmoozing.
Being able to successfully schmooze other rich people is basically all they bring at large corporations.
Ostensibly they should know other rich people, maybe they can make some deal with some of them.
Eliza was overkill to replace a ceo.
What mates you think I was overkill to replace a ceo?
🙂 Thank you for bringing up a fun memory.
What about Clippy? Anoying, butting in when you don't need him and otherwise utterly useless?
If you generate CEO through this service, there is info button that states: "Does not actually use AI, powered by the souls of interns." So this is probably ethical enough to replace the CEO
we talking about llms or the orcs in warcraft
Yes.
llms. orc ai would have already been overkill in the 90s
I actually think an AI would do a better job at running corporations than a human would. Even if it's just an LLM. And I don't mean in a pro-corpo way.
I have this sneaking suspicion that the company I work for is already ran by an LLM. The CEO is obviously using ChatGPT for everything.
Executives everywhere are. ChatGPT is near perfectly suited for handling a very large portion of executive level tasks.
My cousin was fired from his job. The manager told him that AI had determined that he was to be fired, and that it was out of his hands. Either that was a true statement or it was a convenient excuse. Kind of scary either way.
But how will it blame you for its mistakes?
/s
Wait what ? I really hope this is real
It's just as real at the OilWell app.
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In other words it is not real. But made by an ad company.
Damn it
Really nice and funny marketing campaign.
I for one welcome our new robot overlord.
Or you could fire your boss and form a worker cooperative run on consensus based decision making. Worker cooperatives succeed more than "traditional" businesses and have higher pay for their workers^1, despite being at a systemic disadvantage for seed capital. You don't need an ai to boss you around, you and your coworkers can make collective decisions without any boss to speak of.
I wonder if that's an enough efficient system, I'd love it to be, and it's maybe more efficient than the "C-suite" system just because of the cost savings not having C people salaries.
Worth a try.
I'm up, C/C++ senior dev :-)
Ok I've had it. After decades I'm finally going to watch this.
good luck! it's British comedy... most of the jokes you've heard are stand-alone jokes wrapped up alongside with a hundred other jokes that you haven't heard... for various reasons.
Be quiet!
Come see the violence inherent in the system!
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Are there any articles about examples? I only know about aftermath.site but ha e no clue if it is sccessful or not.
Farmers in New Zealand are organized into cooperative, probably the biggest and most successful cooperative there is, and there's almost zero subsidizing from state for them.
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It would be the largest cost cutting measure, but the ruling class won't allow it.
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I think the AI might have too much empathy for the role.
It might even make smarter decisions. The last few companies I worked for had total morons for CEOs, but they sure maximized short-term profit (by burning the company down).
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Huh I read a dystopian short story about AI micro-managing workers, constantly telling them what to do next to optimize productivity. It ends with near "perfect" dystopian wealth concentration. While in another part of the world they used AI to create a utopia.
Oh it was called Manna by Marshall Brain
The gradual takeover of jobs by AI (starting with fast food), The warehousing of the unemployed in state-controlled facilities, A techno-utopian alternative (Australia) where AI liberates rather than enslaves.
Wow, I remember finding that story 20-odd years ago but could never remember the title or author. Pretty good short story IIRC, and more relevant than ever, it's themes have been on my mind on and off quite a bit these past few years.
I couldn't remember it either. I described it to deepseek in order to find it. Ironically it mistakenly thought
the short story you're thinking of is almost certainly "Nanny" by Cory Doctorow. It's part of his collection Radicalized (published in 2019)".
If you find it, let me know. I think I might have been conned by deepseek.
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Why the Mix-Up?
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Both works critique technology-driven capitalism, but Doctorow's focus is distinct:
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Radicalized targets corporate control via IoT devices, insurance cruelty, and policing 612.
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Manna explores algorithmic worker management leading to dystopian/utopian outcomes.
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I incorrectly merged these narratives due to overlapping themes of technological oppression. My apologies for the oversight.
This is what I told my bosses when AI first showed up and they called a meeting to discussed how to leverage it.
It's not going to replace me, it's going to replace you.
How did they react to it?
Scoffed. They are firm believers that their wealth directly correlates with their intelligence.
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