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Re: If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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Post by RealityVoid »

ETH_start wrote: post #77

AI is an abundance-generating technology. The proper way to understand it is that it makes everyone more productive, letting each person consume more goods/services with less work.

Amen! There will probably be people that will have their jobs displaced though, and some adjustments will take place. We do know that change is sometimes painful. But overall, I agree with your sentiment.

I feel a lot of people are stuck in a sort of "broken window fallacy" where if you induce more work you induce more wealth, and that feels false to me.

Re: If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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Post by TheNewsIsHere »

greg_V wrote: post #13

Jokes on you, I bet there's a good portion of CEOs who just use chatgpt in their day-to-day life instead of reading up on stuff, thinking through it and making decisions

And as we well know, a good portion of CEOs are not good CEOs.

Re: If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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Post by shmel »

thih9 wrote: post #123
shmel wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I've never used it for business advice. But it is still useful to learn expert jargon if you want to find relevant discussions. For example, I use it to learn about DJing recently and yes, often it answers "it depends on your personal taste and the party you are playing, you can choose to do X, Y, Z, etc". Then I know that there is no right answer. ChatGPT learned to handle such multimodality to an extent, often it doesn't want to answer "just do X" in these situations even if I push it. Sometimes it gets a lot more precise if I give more context, like

- How to compose a mix? What parts of the tracks should I play and what should I skip?

- It depends on lots of factors . There is no one size fits all answer.

- Ok, suppose I am playing an early morning set of melodic techno at a houseparty for friends. What would you suggest?

- Then your friends will probably be tired by the morning so it makes sense to insert more breakdowns, melodic techno is usually structured this way, hence blah blah blah.

Or you can ask for examples. I often struggle with distinguishing closely related EDM subgenres:

- Can you explain the difference between psybass and psybreaks?

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- I still don't get it. Can you give me 5 iconic tracks in both?

- Sure thing, here is the list:

Besides, there are open research problems in CS as well where there is no single solution. Then I learn the vocabulary and google recent papers on this subject.

I think fundamentally we have a lot more information available than a single person can ever handle. I find ChatGPT incredibly useful at navigating and summarizing this sea of information.

Re: If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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Post by ein0p »

In my experience, LLMs are mostly useful if you already have expertise either directly in the field you’re asking about or in adjacent fileds. They’re also useful in fields which you are exploring so as long as your exploration does not need 100% reliability of information, which most domains do not. As far as business is concerned, however, there’s so much obscure regulation and (in VC) so many opportunities for others to take advantage of your ignorance, that you do really benefit a lot from having people who have been there and done that, and got screwed in the pooper a few times. LLMs aren’t that, at least not yet. So the bottom line is: do use them for things that don’t matter, retain lawyers, accountants, business andvisors, and other professionals to avoid getting screwed.

Re: If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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Post by bee_rider »

antihero wrote: post #95
bee_rider wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actual journalists, like the people that go out and follow leads, interview people… ya know, investigate—they’ll be a little harder to replace with AI since their job happens in the meat-space. Hot-take writers and other people whose job is opinion having might have more trouble.

Basically AI can replace the garbage easily.

It isn’t all garbage, it is a filtering-up process or something. People do things, then the results get summarized and broadcast. IMO our system has too much focus on the summarize and broadcast stage (probably because our communication networks got so good, the people summarizing can draw from the whole planet, resulting in a system that can sustain a very deep tree of summaries-of-summaries).

If AI gets good enough (not certain, for sure), maybe it’ll spur on a race-to-the-bottom for the upper levels of the tree. More focus on doing, rather than summarizing, might be pretty good.

Re: If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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Post by hxriv »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #115
hxriv wrote: post #107

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Not to hijack the thread but I’m curious if you can lay out what is the core message of r/Antiwork? I can’t get my head around what the messages and goals are. (Do they have KPIs and OKRs? /semi-s)

it started as a kind of fully-automated gay space-communism vibe, techno optimist critique of calvinism / "protestant work ethic", how about we don't conflate an individual's worth with their economic productivity at some point it became consumed by implausible screenshots of SMS conversations between oppressed wage workers and cartoonishly evil franchise managers nowadays it is strictly eat the rich

I probably walked in during a transition period because there was a lot of disagreement and infighting. I imagine the extremists won and the more level posters left (as usual)

Re: If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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Post by TheNewsIsHere »

There is an element of longevity and forethought to being a good CEO, that I don’t see AI being focused on. Beyond the lack of actual human cognition, no accountability, and prospect for compromise/poisoning, an AI that emulates a good CEO would need to make judgement calls that generative AI and LLMs just aren’t designed for.

Businesses that endure are comfortable saying no to deals/business/revenue sometimes, or making decisions that result in short term losses for long term gains. Choices that may contradict what the data right now would tell you to do. The prototypical ideal of an entrepreneur often includes some amount of “taking it on faith” — being comfortable taking a leap when you need to. That is not something an AI can do.

Many people seem to want AI to replace executives but every time I hear reasons why, those reasons are all centered on executives doing their job either poorly or for making unpopular decisions, often both. Of course this is common; it’s effectively a trope at this point.

I am not sure we should sacrifice human leadership of business because some leaders are bad. We should instead focus on variously being, fostering, or advocating for better leaders.

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Post by oxfordmale »

tossandthrow wrote: post #70
Jensson wrote: post #41

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> I'd say I'm getting 10x more non technical business advice in multiple areas than I'm getting with the technical stuff. Probably in large part because you can't verify when its wrong since that isn't your area of expertise, so those advice looks better to you. You should assume your org will be the same quality as a program written by a non-technical person using an LLM if you do it that way.

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.

Re: If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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Post by bravetraveler »

bena wrote: post #59
bravetraveler wrote: post #6

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Nor the dog to distract the man! Perpetual motion discovered; nothing shall ever break or change in this factory Strikes me as odd. Why have either? We're clearly in a fairytale - I just lack context. Probably a complaint with some creative color

It’s a joke about how automated processes will become. And to be fair, you could have machines repairing machines. It’s basically how we operate. Some humans do the work, some fix the others

I see, thank you - I didn't mean to stress it or anything.

Clearly a sort of simulation, some allowances make sense :) Spherical cows and all.

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