If CEO is AI, who is responsible for failure?
If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO
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#32An AI won't replace the CEO, because the AI can't take responsibility and step down for decisions the board of directors made. Now having the AI replace the board of directors is a more interesting proposition...
We can definitely destroy the version of AI CEO that made the bad decisions and replace it with a „better“ version.
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#33A fair number of r/antiwork type takes on this below. Since this is HackerNews, let's follow through the logic -- if the AI you're running is the CEO, who are you? You're the owner / shareholder / (board if you want to be). This wave of AI is like giving a superpower to people who can direct/imagine/realize what they want, describe it, and (for now) glue together the output of the AI. A lot of the work is ongoing thi…
> We'll have a core directable glued-together stack that can take instruction like "make me a shopify site to sell cute mini traffic cones that are oscar-the-grouch themed, but make sure they don't violate any copyright themes, make me 100 ads to sell them" by the end of 2024
lol I’d be VERY surprised if they can do that by the end of 2030.
1. You need relationships with manufacturers to do that
2. You need to validate the physical results prior to a full run
3. These LLMs have no idea about copyright and even the best ones tell you stuff that isn’t remotely true.
These models predict the next construct (phrase, word, etc.) and they’re decent at it. They’ll eventually do images, with text, hopefully both actually relate and make sense. I’d give that 2 years really to refine.
They’re really good predictors, but when you start mixing things and gluing 4-5 things together, the error rate grows exponentially and the understanding equally had a massive drop.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure why you put Tim Cook and Zuckerberg in the same sentence there, one is a founder the other is a climber. Building a big functional company like Zuckerberg did isn't something just anyone can do, Tim Cook just took over a big functional company and made it continue do what it did before. I think it will be a while until AI can build companies from scratch, but I think just running a company and keeping it do…
The common narrative is that Tim Cook was the organizer and glue behind Steve Jobs's vision for years, and "just took over a big functional company and made it continue do what it did before" is a funny way to describe the tear Apple has been on for the last ~15 years.
> "just took over a big functional company and made it continue do what it did before" is a funny way to describe the tear Apple has been on for the last ~15 years.
Compared to Facebook, yes Apple just continued doing what they did under Steve while Facebook went from being a small private site for Harvard students to being a global tech giant. I don't see why you would equate those two.
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#35There's a general election here in the UK next month, as a crazy thought experiment, what if there was an AI party. No human MPs but AI agents for each district that collectively would represent the party. Give a decade perhaps?
AI are not people and can not run for office. Only a person can be an MP. An AI can only be an MP in the sense that a human can run on a platform of always doing what a particular AI tells them to do. Most MPs always follow the whip, so this should actually be quite familiar territory for the kinds of people that become MPs.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure why you put Tim Cook and Zuckerberg in the same sentence there, one is a founder the other is a climber. Building a big functional company like Zuckerberg did isn't something just anyone can do, Tim Cook just took over a big functional company and made it continue do what it did before. I think it will be a while until AI can build companies from scratch, but I think just running a company and keeping it do…
Facepalming at the assumption that Tim Cook doesn't do much and it's something anyone can do
Why did you write that response to me and not to the person above me? I didn't say Tim Cook didn't do anything, keeping the company on course isn't doing nothing. The person above me said he did nothing of value, not me.
But note that keeping the company on course isn't the same thing as building the company and setting the course.
Edit: Also there are a lot of people who can keep a company on course, there are much much fewer who can build a company.
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#37Software engineer here trying to start a startup.
The amount of business advice GPT-4 has given me is immeasurable.
I'd say I'm getting 10x more non technical business advice in multiple areas than I'm getting with the technical stuff.
Kind of like an AI CEO advising me on what to do next.
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#38If CEO is AI, who is responsible for failure?
Hey hey, the AI won’t take 35M parachutes (Boeing) when it gets fired.
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#39The number of people believing that the primary job of the CEO is to "do" is too high. Actually, the primary job of a CEO is to take decisions with whatever information they have at their disposal. The decision may not always be right, but s/he should be able to make it within a certain timeframe. AI might likely do most of a CEO's "things to do," but the better CEOs are still going to be the ones who can take decisi…
AI can make those decisions better.
It really can't. It can finish some text though that infers the most likely completion taking into account tokens in the prompt and generated content.
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#40If CEO is AI, who is responsible for failure?
The workers, just like now.
The real question is who gets the bonus and the golden parachute?