• mavu@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    3 months

    Why does it say “threaten”?

    It just offers a service. Googlemail doesn’t threaten to provide me with an email address. A gardener doesn’t threaten to maintain and tend to your garden.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    3 months

    Do you want Delamain?

    Because that’s how you get Delamain.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3 months

    I have a fantasy that someone tries using data driven systems to run business. They’d still need AI to do all the C-speak and top-tier sales work, but as it is upper management commonly resents their own workforce and enacts policy just to be vindictive.

    Imagine a game company that didn’t crunch because it knew crunching only slowed productivity and wrecked the health and morale of the dev team.

    Imagine a company who didn’t issue RTO mandates because it saw it’s telecommuters are more productive and happier working from home.

    Imagine if businesses didn’t surveillance-max and micromanage their administrative clerks and fulfillment teams understanding that doing so slows them down and makes them miserable.

    I don’t know for certain that AI-assisted computers can run businesses and manage well, but we have countless examples of how upper management lets their feelings get in the way of maximizing profit and demonstrate incompetence and lack of adult maturity.

    The bar really is that low.

    • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3 months

      AI can’t do a CEO’s job. A CEO is just a professional schmoozer. They’re there to interact with and sell the company’s services to a bunch of rich bastards. They’re basically a highly paid escort that mostly gets to keep their clothes on.

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3 months

        If that’s all a CEO was, then we’d have much more functional companies. But the CEO is also the top manager of the company and dictates policies that affect how the company is run. We’re seeing specific examples of what is nothing short of labor abuse by executives such as Zuckerberg, Musk and Bezos. And they choose their policies for purely emotional reasons, as an expression of resentment and vindictiveness toward their own workforce.

        In fact, this is the core of their fantasy regarding AI, that with enough R&D it will be cheap enough to replace their human staff entirely with robots, who don’t have opinions and don’t fight for better treatment.

        If a company separated the executive suite from upper management, and instead had a brain trust to maximize profits by hard data and cold calculation, I submit human labor would be better treated, since well-treated workers operate at an improved rate of productivity, which actually makes it profitable to make sure they take their breaks and eat their lunches.

        History shows us the ownership class always thinks their workers are willfully withholding effort, and as we’ve seen during the North Atlantic slave era, the ownership class will work labor to death if they are allowed to do so.

  • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    3 months

    Sorry guys.

    It might sound like a dream, but these replacements aren’t happening as long as the shareholders can’t blame the AI when the company does something bad. They don’t want to end up in prison.

      • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3 months

        I was talking about the shareholders.

        If they blame the CEO, they can just fire them and pay a fine.

        If the fault is on a shareholder, they can’t be fired and will be completely to blame, so they might go to prison.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
    3 months

    It’s parody right now, but as you read the article, it begins to make perfect sense that AI is far better suited to replace the responsibilities of a CEO, than the varied responsibilities of the workers, especially when the economics are taken into account. You can save millions by getting rid of workers, but there’s a lot of work involved in replacing all those jobs. Or you can save millions by getting rid of a single CEo, and you only have to replace one job.

    At some point, somebody is going to offer this service for real, and companies are going to use it.

    • One2many@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      They are the most expensive piece of the workforce by far, especially when you consider their relative measurable productivity

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3 months

      They went mask-off when working from home saved money vs return to office. It’s about power.

    • i_love_FFT@jlai.luEnglish
      3 months

      That’s true when you consider their official tasks… However after years in industries, it became apparent to me that their maon job is to “have contacts in high places”.

      When your CEO signs a deal with their friend’s friend for the biggest contract of the year, it’s hard to replace that by an AI…

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      I would say that doing so would mean that there’s no one to hold accountable, but then I remembered the hellscape I live in where ceos don’t face accountability anyways, so yeah…

      • prime_number_314159@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        No one knows why some CEOs succeed so much, and others fail so hard. Rather than admit that they are guessing, executive suites and boards of directors both engage in mystical thinking, and then shed as much blame/yank as much credit as they can get away with. CEOs are where they are because of a social club, and not because they have any specific demonstrable skills, high intelligence, overwhelming empathy, insight into the future of business, unmatched creativity, etc.

        Hallucinating that CEOs know what they should be doing, and the “more hours worked means more things got done” thinking are the largest and most damaging mental viruses of the corporate world.

    • adhdsergio@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      I’d love that but if you marry the fecklessness of a CEO with the ruthlessness of an AI you get weekly layoffs 😂

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
        3 months

        Sends like we have that anyway. Let’s replace them with AI then switch the AI off.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      3 months

      LLMs are bullshit machines. I dont see how there’s any question.

      • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        Yes, but can they “synergise, the verticals, while hyperspeeding through deepdiving outside of the box thinking?” I think NOT

          • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3 months

            You are really a thought leader, I’ll need to ping some ideas off of you to help move the needle. But we will have to circle back. We can take this offline.

              • Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                3 months

                I recently heard someone say their boss told them they’ve been adding a lot of shareholder value lately.

                Yes they work as a sloperator.

                • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  3 months

                  That hurts my soul. Its like “gee thanks boss! Im so happy to make the ruling class more wealthy!”

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    threatens

    But the owners of the website have no control over the administration of business infrastructure.

    Like, its all very tongue-and-cheek, but it mostly illustrates that our economic model isn’t based on “efficiency” or “meritocracy”. The folks calling the shots have their positions by way of inheritance, influence peddling, and state-sanctioned violence.

    • fnrir@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3 months

      Why does this sound like a Mr Beast video?

      The last one to do it wins what? More GPU time?

    • Abyssian@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
      3 months

      God no. They wouldn’t do that, that’s awful. They’ll molest human children, so they can secure a large body of supporters.

  • darthelmet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    This seems over engineered. I’m pretty sure a simple program that just replies “yeah sure” to anyone from the right department asking about something would outperform most CEOs.

    • xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
      3 months

      The classic…

      Middle-manager: We have 3 options, but only enough resources to finish 1, which one should we prioritize?

      CEO: These are all great! I look forward to seeing the final version of all 3 next week.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      The primary role of the CEO is to solicit cheap lending from banks. A simple program can’t do that. You need a real human being at the business with another real human being who was friends with that first human being in college and who now works as a broker at a big financial institution to stamp the loan.

      This is every billionaire’s path to power. Not via what they know but who they know.