Comment by tavavex
7 months ago
It's not about just fulfillment or price-setting. This is just a narrow-scope experiment that tries to prove wider viability by juggling lots of business-related roles. Of course, the more number-crunching aspects of businesses are thoroughly automated. But this could show that lots of roles that traditionally require lots of people to do the job could be on the chopping block at some point, depending on how well companies can bring LLMs to their vision of a "perfect businessman". Customer interaction and support, marketing, HR, internal documentation, middle management in general - think broadly.
I'm not debating the usefulness of LLMs, because they are extremely useful, but "think broadly" in this instance sounds like "I can't think of anything specific so I'm going to gloss over everything."
Marketing, HR, and middle management are not specific tasks. What specific task do you envision LLMs doing here?
Indeed, it is such a "narrow-scope experiment" that it is basically a business role-playing game, and it did pretty poorly at that. It's pretty hard to imagine giving this thing a real budget and responsibilities anytime soon, no matter how cheap it is.