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Perplexity CEO offers AI company's services to replace striking NYT staff

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Re: Perplexity CEO offers AI company's services to replace striking NYT staff

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Post by treesciencebot »

A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote: post #18
baxtr wrote: post #16

I find it a bit odd that Perplexity still have a human CEO.

I know people get a chuckle out of it, but does it not make more sense to have CEO LLM that will make decisions without regard for its own needs, self-interest, conflicts and so on? Honestly, the longer this particular debate rages on, I think shareholders are looking the wrong set of humans to replace.

Liability. Till we solve this, we cant really give AI any real responsibilities.

Re: Perplexity CEO offers AI company's services to replace striking NYT staff

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Post by worik »

IncreasePosts wrote: post #14

Quite recently, lots of people were calling on almost-striking longshoremen to be replaced by machines. How is replacing tech workers with AI any different?

> How is replacing tech workers with AI any different?

It is not?

Re: Perplexity CEO offers AI company's services to replace striking NYT staff

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Post by PittleyDunkin »

doctoboggan wrote: post #19
baxtr wrote: post #16

I find it a bit odd that Perplexity still have a human CEO.

Giving and LLM control of the corporation that develops and runs that LLM seems like a bad idea.

I think we can safely say at this point the singularity ain't happening any time soon

Re: Perplexity CEO offers AI company's services to replace striking NYT staff

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Post by hiddencost »

dakiol wrote: post #13
mandibles wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The LLM never goes on strike.

Current LLMs can (because they are still maintained by humans). I think it will be a decade still until we have software maintaining itself (i.e., rewriting its own code, fixing vulnerabilities, etc)

No, it already exists. The big companies already have fully LLM generated code going into their code bases. The code is being reviewed by humans.

Google had a fairly costly outage due to a fully LLM generated CL, already.

Re: Perplexity CEO offers AI company's services to replace striking NYT staff

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Post by nomel »

hobs wrote: post #3

So much work to avoid being upset at this guy: "But to offer its services explicitly as a replacement for striking workers was bound to be an unpopular move." No, really? You'd think these AI guys would have better PR departments.

I don't see how this is negative PR. It's an effective, positive, advertisement for anyone actually interested in the service (business or personal): "Oh wow, it could replace a reporter? I should try it!".

The purpose of technology: reduce human effort. But, technology is always unpopular to those whose efforts are being reduced.

Now, is it possible for their AI to replace them is another question. What sort of reduction for headcount/time spent, without a negative impact on quality, is a better question. But, a question that people that hear this might be asking now.

And, to be fair, I don't know anyone who enjoys simple facts being wrapped in corporate bullshit. What would be better verbiage? I think it's refreshing that it was stated directly, rather than some nothing statement about striving to do good and support customers without responding to the issue at all, as is usually the case.

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