Skyfall AI, from the team behind Microsoft's $160 million Maluuba acquisition, will buy a SaaS company and let AI run it as CEO.
    • mcv@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      To be honest, I’m not convinced CEOs are the right people to make decisions either. Let the people who do the actual work make the decisions.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    401·
    11 days ago

    Well, employee morale is going to be great at whichever company they hand to an AI to run. But who cares about employees?

    Their shared bet is that companies will automate individual jobs piece by piece until humans oversee the work rather than perform it.

    For CEOs maybe this sounds great, but for anyone with a skilled job who knows the satisfaction of practising and improving your skills every day, it sounds hellish. All humans will become middle managers for the foreseeable future, possibly the least rewarding job there is.

    It reminds me of when that CEO of an AI music company claimed musicians don’t enjoy making music. It gives you a little glimpse of how joyless these techbros’ lives really are, and they want to bring that to the rest of us.

    • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
      13·
      11 days ago

      When I was a senior software engineer, I was offered a management position… I said no, because I knew I would hate it and do a terrible job. I actually like programming, and I absolutely hate asking an A.I. to do it for me.

      Actually funny story. Or maybe unfunny. I was doing a web project a while ago, and the host site I was trying out asked me to describe my project. I naïvely did so, thinking it was like a description or something. When I hit next, the site A.I. automatically did my entire project for me. All the code, folder structures, API calls, everything.

      I just sat there feeling bad feelings for a while. I think it actually made me a bit depressed. Took all the joy out of the project and I never touched it again.

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
        11·
        11 days ago

        I had the same experience. I was doing a little home project to improve my Rust programming skills and my understanding of a couple of algorithms. I asked the AI to wire up the command line arguments so I could move on to the more interesting bits. It got carried away, rewrote my code, fixed the bugs and finished the whole project. I just sat there feeling disappointed. It was like someone telling you how a movie turns out just as you’re settling in with your popcorn.

  • liking625@lemmy.worldEnglish
    241·
    11 days ago

    If that rids the world of despicable ones like Palantirs, openai, etc… Wish them success

  • apftwb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    10 days ago

    You can replace CEOs with a big spinner wheel that is:

    • 60% nothing
    • 30% middle management restructuring
    • 10% layoffs and stock buy-back
    • sobchak@programming.devEnglish
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      10 days ago

      In my experience (of having my office 2-doors down from the CEO of a minor public company), most of his “work” was just meetings with other CEOs and execs over breakfast, lunch, dinner, golf, etc to discuss business deals, acquisitions, and such. Not sure how an AI could do that, as it was mostly a social/class/nepotism thing.

      • homes@piefed.worldBanned from communityEnglish
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        11 days ago

        If it makes you feel any better, it’s headlines like this that spread accelerationism

        And I’m here to redirect your blinding, piecing, eye-popping rage into Democratic Socialism. Just look at Mamdani. Tell me that you don’t love that guy. Not just because his politics and policies help everyone, but because he’s a genuinely nice guy who actually lives up to his promises. (and, not for nothin’, dude is super cute). And his successful election proved to the country that Democratic socialism can actually succeed. And in so many primaries, it already has!

        I hope you’re registered to vote!

        Hope— not just an Obama thing

          • homes@piefed.worldBanned from communityEnglish
            2·
            11 days ago

            Yes. And while you may not specifically endorse Democratic socialism, at least I might hope to get you on board with supporting political and policy measures that help the people and supporting politicians that actually follow through with their promises to help the people.

            And if they’re also pretty good looking, that can hurt, right?