AI, even in it’s current state, is probably overkill to replace a CEO.
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
Eliza was overkill to replace a ceo.
What about Clippy? Anoying, butting in when you don’t need him and otherwise utterly useless?
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.
Ostensibly they should know other rich people, maybe they can make some deal with some of them.
Being able to successfully schmooze other rich people is basically all they bring at large corporations.
we talking about llms or the orcs in warcraft
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.
Really nice and funny marketing campaign.
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.
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!
Did you see him repressing me?
I’ve often thought that worker cooperative call centres should be a thing. The people who manage call centres barely understand the contract because inevitably they higher management from outside of the company, since no one on the phones could possibly be management material.
It would probably make quite a lot of money because one of the biggest complaints that companies have about their third party call centres is inefficiencies. Even if the bosses wanted to fix the inefficiencies they can’t because they don’t understand the contract at a base enough level. In a workers cooperative that wouldn’t be an issue since the workers would understand the contract.
Unfortunately it probably would face the issue that all new starts in the industry make, in that most businesses are locked into multi-year contracts with their call centre providers and can’t just swap to a new provider whenever they want. So you’d have to time its startup very precisely as a big company came to the end of its contract, or you’d probably have to get some clients on board before you even started.
This is a very good idea. I worked call centers in the US when I was younger and they all suffered from terrible, abusive management.
It would be the largest cost cutting measure, but the ruling class won’t allow it.
Yes. If they did allow it, who would hire their nephew, then?
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.
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.
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.
This is how we get Dalamain.
I think the AI might have too much empathy for the role.
Dude looks like the Delamain ai.
Personally, I think they resemble Xerxes.
Not sure what game this is, deus ex?
System Shock 2, one of the best horror game FPSes from the 90’s. If you liked the first two Thief games, it was made by the developers of them. Immersive simulations like Bioshock, STALKER, and Prey 2016 were inspired by this particular game. The remaster of SS2 is to be released on the 26th.
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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.
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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.
