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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.
Please.
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I was speaking to a fellow software engineer the other day. She has a tech lead on their team. She reports that he is really nice, but some times he is insisting that he knows the working of some part of the system and is giving advice based on his understanding. Only thing is that he is wrong. The software engineer needs to "de-hallucinate" him in order to get a proper answer. I think we are at a time where we need…
The current generation of ChatGPT hallucinates far more systematically than that. The problem is that it can regurgitate what the random dudes from local accelerators have written in their blog posts. We all know blog posts are often a sales pitch and don't include useful advice, because you can charge for the useful advice you give.
This is not how modern training pipelines work. The models are trained on proprietary alignments that ensure factuality.
Regardless, that random dude from a local accelerator probably regurgitates those blog articles himself.
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Step 1: the C-Suite sells out middle management in return for a bigger year end bonus. Step 2: the CEO sells out the rest of the C-Suite for an even bigger year end bonus. Step 3: the shareholders replace the CEO, promoting one of his now AI automated fellow C-suite, to maximize shareholder profit. It's corporate hunger games ... just without winners.
Can't boards protect CEO's? Boards are usually made up of other CEO's or their FFF's anyway. Isn't that why was it so important that Altman purge the OpenAI board? Or can shareholders bypass the board?
OpenAI doesn't answer to shareholders since it is a non-profit.
> Or can shareholders bypass the board?
Shareholders can replace the board with a AI friendly board. If such boards are popular they wont be hard to find, and then board members would rather replace the CEO than get replaced themselves.
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I find ChatGPT incredibly useful to learn the vocabulary of an unfamiliar area. Often basic information in the area I know very little about can be found easily once you know the right keywords. Even if ChatGPT gets something wrong, it does pattern matching well enough to tell me something like "yes, there is a well-known concept that matches your vague noob description, it is called X". It works well in CS where I h…
That is CS though; I’m not sure that would work with business advice, where problems can be less tangible or there can be no single or verifiable solution (nor library/algorithm). Unless this approach also helps in the context of business advice?
"What's the difference between amortization and depreciation?" types of things. You could Google them, but you have to waste time skimming through a couple blogspam articles, but LLMs can explain the concept in an easy to digest way much faster.
A 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…
A 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…
Is AI just steroids for drop-shipping?
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That is CS though; I’m not sure that would work with business advice, where problems can be less tangible or there can be no single or verifiable solution (nor library/algorithm). Unless this approach also helps in the context of business advice?
They're not necessarily good for advice, but you need a decent amount of business knowledge to run even a small business, and LLMs can help with all the noob questions you'll have if you're starting a company and never went to business school. "What's the difference between amortization and depreciation?" types of things. You could Google them, but you have to waste time skimming through a couple blogspam articles, b…
Wow, this is some ultimate clickbait, combining peak AI hype with timely economic concerns as well as the evergreen hatred of bad bosses. The fact that articles like this get traction is ironically exactly why an AI can’t be a good CEO—picking a popular next token is worthless if not backed by some reasoning and organizational structure to benefit the business. It’s a trope that CEOs are out of touch with the ground…
Idk, I tend to think that people in positions of leadership overestimate their competence and ability to actually effect positive change in an organisation. They're kind of a monkey in the cockpit that we get to point at and say "Because of the monkey we are now doing x, y, z", but whether that monkey is a primate or a probability distribution seems irrelevant. We just watched the entire tech industry trend-follow and overhire, then layoff the overhires without any accountability as to how it happened, and you're positing there's some intangible skill here that a probability distribution can't replicate? Doubt.
Tl;dr - I think executive leadership is careening towards a reckoning that even its entrenched cronyism will be unable to avert. It will take one automated COO or CEO and the whole MBA house of cards will come tumbling down. Real domain expert CEOs will always be around, but the MBA plant will go the way of the support agent.
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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.
I love the HN mindset. See, most people here have some aspiration towards being the next great CEO so of course AI can’t possibly do that job. But, sure, it can do everyone else’s job and even drive cars and fly planes. Please.