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?
I'm still quite a bit better than SotA models, but I imagine that won't be true in 2034.
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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?
I'm still quite a bit better than SotA models, but I imagine that won't be true in 2034.
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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.
It's only a matter of time until one of these jackasses creates a ChatGPT wrapper called scab.ai and markets it for this exact use case.
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?
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?
I look forward to executives trying it and discovering exactly how fucked they will be. I get the chance to talk to a lot of people who think this will work, and, it's really striking how poor their grasp of the business is.
Replacing your whole workforce with a machine, at this state, is silly, but that's not the only option.
If NYT loses, we all win.
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.
Why would the leadership of a fairly popular, generally well-liked company with a generally useful, generally well-liked product take a pretty strident stance at the maximally high-temperature moment: fuck labor as a bloc, we’ll cross the strike lines?
Don’t technology companies want to avoid this kind of political shit and just build and ship?
Honestly, the fact that he posted it the way he did, publicly in a tweet suggests he wasn’t trying to undermine workers but rather wanted to be seen as supporting election coverage. Based on his past interviews, he seems quite autistic in ways. But really I think this could have been a good opportunity to strike some licensing deal in exchange for technology, had he been a bit more discreet
Why should he care about another company's workers? He should care about his own company and workers and gaining them new customers.