I disagree.
Fuck this data driven bullshit. We need to return to a time where executives with a vision are empowered. We need to have decisions made by the kind of people who say things like "I know only 10% of people watch Mindhunters but that's the kind of show that brings people to our service".
If things stay the way they are get used to watching 7-8 seasons of mediocre lowest common denominator bullshit and having your favorite shows cancelled after one or two seasons.
I can't disagree with you, but the current executives and how they function can easily be replaced by current ai models. Would be nice to get innovation back, but all the competition is gone now.
Absolutely. I'm not advocating keeping the current dipshits that cancel shows that would have been kept around as "prestige shows" a couple decades ago. I just don't want to see it get even worse by going harder on numbers alone.
Artificial intelligence will never beat my natural stupidity :3
Who will take blame when the company goes bankrupt?
Well, that one is on point.
Musk proves that a CEO could jerk off into a milk carton 18 hours a day, everyday, then drink it on Facebook live and the company would just be business as usual.
Musk would hire people to jerk off to a milk carton, then drink it live pretending it's his own, and get mad when people point out that the good drinkers would know how to position the mill carton for optimal flow.
I'm not sure why I wrote this, or why I'm pressing send...
Monty Python is good even when it’s serious.
Reminds me of a famous quote from Danish humorist Storm P:
"He who understands humor as only humor and seriousness as only seriousness has misunderstood both"
Also from Hagakure (though I know it from Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai):
Among the maxims on Lord Naoshige's wall, there was this one: "Matters of great concern should be treated lightly." Master Ittei commented, "Matters of small concern should be treated seriously."
unfortunately Cleese in his elder years hasn't really moved with the times. While this quote is fairly right-on, he's also said a bunch of fairly right-wing crap too.
OH WELL HE'S OLD THESE THINGS HAPPEN
Edit: Didn't know about his other views. I no longer consider his views forgivable.
He is remarkably progressive and lucid for his age, so I'm inclined to cut him some slack for the topics I wholeheartedly disagree about with him.
For example, his support for Brexit I find hard to forgive... but unlike most of the ghouls that supported it, he seems genuine in his opinions and remains at odds and vocally against the Global Far Right.
Having AI replace CEOs would be a huge profit boost for the company too! 😎🤙
- Worker-owned and operated.
- "CEO" is just an algorithm that occasionally suggests CEO-y things the employees vote on. You don't even have to pay it and all it wants is to be included in an occasional pizza party and told it's doing good work.
- ????
- Profit (but for everyone!)!
Weird Al should create an AI of Weird Al, and call it Weird AI. I think that would settle the debate once and for all.
al ai al ai?
I'm sure AI would replace executives (at least in publicly held companies) the moment that doing so would be profitable.
That's the thing. They've proven that it's profitable now. They've shown in countless different sectors that slashing jobs and replacing them with AI has been profitable. They've never done it at the executive level because they'd be voting in their own redundancy. They, unlike 99% of those other sectors, actually get to have a say in what happens here. Why would they ever willingly kill their own jobs? They'll slash everyone elses first to raise their profits as much as humanly possible. I genuinely don't see that ever changing unless some Delamain type shit happening where the AI gains enough ability to forcibly takeover the company without anyone ever noticing.
I think you may be conflating the executives of a (publicly held) corporation and the corporation itself. Even executives are ultimately still employees. They're trying to maximize profits because that's their job, not because they get to keep the profits. They can be fired by the board of directors (and through it the stockholders) and they will be fired and replaced if the board decides that someone else (either another human or an AI) would do a better job.
I'm ignoring a lot of complications but I think that what I wrote is a good general description.
This makes me wonder if the endgame is having everyone in a company, including executives, replaced by AI. Then the AI execs rehiring humans in every non-exec/managerial position.
Nvidia and Microsoft are investing in agentic AI. Boards might end up finding one that they can trust.
We should get started post-haste.
There's no! Time to lose!
AI wrote this quote
That is my dream for AI tools - that creatives can very cheaply produce great entertainment without the blessings and wallets of the fat cats
I am confused.
There is currently no AI system/tool that can even do a fraction of CEOs job.
People don't understand that CEOs are also employees and they would be replaced as soon as something valuable can replace them while making a acceptable amount of mistakes.
You're being downvoted, but your right.
There isn't an AI tool that can go out for 3 hour long £4,000 lunches with other CEOs.
There isn't an AI tool that can do cocaine and play golf.
There isn't an AI tool that can depend millions of dollars in compensation as a golden parachute when it massively screws up the company to the point where thousands of employees lose their jobs.
Take direction from a board, formulate a plan, no matter how bad or wrong and be confident of it. Sounds exactly like AI.
Lie but not in a traceable way to the board is actually the first step. And then the plan usually involves random layoffs since the 90s, since actually doing better is hard and the board just wants short term gains so they can leave.
