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

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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 raincole »

hashtag-til wrote: post #63
raincole wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Additionally, I think it's good to remember that among the people most threatened by this future, it's those who write for a living. Journalists, script writers and lawyers, essentially. An anecdote: I live in a non-english-speaking country. Most people in academic fields can speak and write English, but not as good as a native speaker. It's a common practice here before submitting an essay, you send it to a profes…

How is this different from grammarly, that has been around for many years? This was a middleman job anyway, so it was just waiting to be removed, like travel agents.

> How is this different from grammarly, that has been around for many years?

I'm not sure how to answer this, because the compatibility gap between Grammarly and ChatGPT (even 3), in terms of English writing, is just too large. So large that I can barely categorize them as "the same kind of tools".

I can only confidently tell you one fact: before ChatGPT, people here were aware of Grammarly's existence. Yet they still sent their drafts to professional editors at a price of ~$0.1/word.

> This was a middleman job anyway, so it was just waiting to be removed, like travel agents.

You can say programmers are middlemen between specs and implementations. But that's not my point.

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

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Post by shmel »

Jensson wrote: post #41
aussieguy1234 wrote: post #37

Software 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.

> 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.

That's a good point, but I think it's important to critically analyze any information you find online. Anything I read online might be bullshit, and yet I've learned a lot from internet. And many other people have as well. I personally see ChatGPT as a better and faster search engine. If I need something basic, it's often on point and almost instant. If I need intricate advanced details about a niche topic, yes, it can be wrong. So are other people. While I lack expertise outside of my main areas to verify it, I usually have enough to judge whether it's a basic knowledge for experts in this area.

At very least, ChatGPT doesn't intentionally try to mislead me to sell me something (yet).

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

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Post by mirsadm »

sebzim4500 wrote: post #57
boolit wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a critical insight. Whenever I ask an LLM about a topic I’m knowledgeable about, I can detect that it spews a load of nonsense. Talking to people in other fields, e.g., history and literature, they say it’s the same for them. LLMs are only useful if you know the topic you’re asking questions about. Otherwise, they generate so much nonsense that you cannot verify, that trusting it becomes a liability.

Depends what the topic is. IME it hallucines rarely when asked practical programming questions but basically constantly when asked math questions beyond basic calculus.

It constantly invents functions that don't exist.

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

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Post by anileated »

tossandthrow wrote: post #68
avidphantasm wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please disclose your startup name so that we can stay far far away from whatever havoc you unleash.

Wow This is extremely rude and downright uncomfortable to read on a forum where people are supposed to be curious. Who tf do you think you are?

“Let me just use a glorified autocomplete instead of learning a subject domain or craft” seems like the opposite of hacker spirit and curiosity.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

endofreach wrote: post #5
falcor84 wrote: post #2

I keep thinking of that Warren Bennis's quote: "The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment." Only now I think the dog will be robotic too.

Lol what... Haven't heard of this quote but i just had a weird dream two weeks ago about a robotic dog that was with me all the time. It started to keep me from working (own company, alone in the office, a lot of jumping between software & hardware tinkering). It stopped me by being cute & playful. It was a very intense dream. in general. I interpreted as coming from my inner conflict of being a father (6 months old)…

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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 Havoc »

I don't really buy it.

CEO is all about softskills, uncertainty, weighing risks, intuition, vision etc. All the things LLMs are terrible at.

If you just want some generic MBA like wall of text spouting robot that you can call "CEO" for 15 mins of limelight then yeah got for it, but that's not really what makes a really great CEO, is it?

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

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Post by denimnerd42 »

raincole wrote: post #44
vessenes wrote: post #23

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…

> Additionally, I think it's good to remember that among the people most threatened by this future, it's those who write for a living. Journalists, script writers and lawyers, essentially. An anecdote: I live in a non-english-speaking country. Most people in academic fields can speak and write English, but not as good as a native speaker. It's a common practice here before submitting an essay, you send it to a profes…

My wife uses chatgpt for this. The only problem is the output might be better English and less grammar mistakes but it reads downright cringy to a native English speaker. I think it’s easily identifiable as being passed through an LLM too by anyone familiar with the usage.

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

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Post by anileated »

vessenes wrote: post #23

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…

Prompting an ML tool created from someone’s original works sourced without appropriate licensing or permission to “make sure the output doesn’t violate copyright” is the sad irony of today.
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