Comment by briandw
2 days ago
Ok so clearly a satire. However I kinda want this. They make some really good points about how an AI would be better than many CEOs. Honestly some of the companies I've worked for would be better with Gemini at in charge. Yes humanity is doomed, but at least I would understand the motivations and we'd have less CEO ADHD moments. (CEO ADHD -> "Some other CEO told me about X, why aren't we doing X")
I feel like if I mention technology X in my system context for Gemini, there is a 100% chance that when I ask for hiking recommendations Gemini will say "As a user of technology X, you would appreciate the beauty and elegance of the Cuyamaca National Forest"
I hate it when it does that.
Because you’re just talking to a hyper-dimensional markov chain.
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I hear you.
I worked as a consultant for a company where the CEO one day, they just started using AI chat for everything. Every question you asked, they just forwarded it. Same thing for company strategy, major decisions, presentation content, and so on.
Initially, I was really annoyed. After I took a deep breath, and read through the wall of text they sent (to figure out how to respond), I eventually realized it was slightly better than their previous work. Not like, night-and-day better, but slightly better.
Since then, I've been playing with the idea of 'hiring' an AI to manage my freelance and personal work. I would not be required to do what it says, but I could take it under consideration and see if I work better that way. Sort of like the ultimate expression of "servant leadership".
> Since then, I've been playing with the idea of 'hiring' an AI to manage my freelance and personal work.
Shit, I think you are now personally responsible for 3-4 home projects I've neglected investing time into actually getting some attention. I too am much more productive and oddly enough, find the work more interesting when It's someone else asking and waiting for me to deliver it.
I haven't tried the Gemini CLI yet and creating an agent that acts like a customer I have to answer too about projects progress sounds like a perfect project idea for this weekend.
Question is, will I actually see this one through our will it too wind up in homelab project purgatory!
I'd be concerned about all the CEO's reports prompt injecting the boss though.
Give me a raise so I can buy her medicine, or my grandma dies...
If the AI is good enough to replace a CEO, dead grandma is part of the training data
This already happens! We just call it schmoozing.
Make all of the communications to the ceo Ai open to everyone to see how it responds
It's cute, and fun, but I disagree. It could make a mistake, but it could go a long time with giving us confidence and a reasonable return of intelligent results. I think that can lull us into dependency. Do we really want to give up decision-making to AI? I don't think so.
With that said, if it's used purely as a tool by a CEO, and overtime has been developed with the optimal parameters for the company with its culture and everything (thank Apple) then the AI can help make decision decisions for the company.
> Do we really want to give up decision-making to AI? I don't think so.
It seems to me that a great deal of people cannot wait to give up decision-making to AI
You should see the kind of people we've given up our decision-making to
I mean, that is what we do with all kinds of technology already. If you had to stop and think about everything that required a decision by someone you'd quickly realize you'd get nowhere fast in the very complex world we live in. The vast majority of people want to abstract those decisions away so they only have to make the minimum amount possible.
> Do we really want to give up decision-making to AI?
If you have a problem with it, I've got some bad news for you.
HFT firms have been doing this long before ChatGPT hit the scene, and making millions off of it.
“This is the most revolutionary email about the reallocation of corporate parking spaces in the history of iPhone.”