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[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait what ? I really hope this is real

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's just as real at the OilWell app.

spoilerIn other words it is not real. But made by an ad company.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago
[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 62 points 3 days ago (4 children)

AI, even in it's current state, is probably overkill to replace a CEO.

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

If you generate CEO through this service, there is info button that states: "Does not actually use AI, powered by the souls of interns." So this is probably ethical enough to replace the CEO

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Eliza was overkill to replace a ceo.

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

What mates you think I was overkill to replace a ceo?

🙂 Thank you for bringing up a fun memory.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

What about Clippy? Anoying, butting in when you don't need him and otherwise utterly useless?

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've never worked for a company where the CEO was a value add.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I still don't even know what they actually do that's worth all that money, and I've looked. The main 'skill' seems to be schmoozing.

[–] realitista@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Ostensibly they should know other rich people, maybe they can make some deal with some of them.

[–] InfinityOfThought@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago

Being able to successfully schmooze other rich people is basically all they bring at large corporations.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

we talking about llms or the orcs in warcraft

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

llms. orc ai would have already been overkill in the 90s

[–] vane@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Really nice and funny marketing campaign.

[–] scott@lemmy.org 182 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Or you could fire your boss and form a worker cooperative run on consensus based decision making. Worker cooperatives succeed more than "traditional" businesses and have higher pay for their workers^1, despite being at a systemic disadvantage for seed capital. You don't need an ai to boss you around, you and your coworkers can make collective decisions without any boss to speak of.

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 120 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 65 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Ok I've had it. After decades I'm finally going to watch this.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Come see the violence inherent in the system!

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did you see him repressing me?

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[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

good luck! it's British comedy... most of the jokes you've heard are stand-alone jokes wrapped up alongside with a hundred other jokes that you haven't heard... for various reasons.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I wonder if that's an enough efficient system, I'd love it to be, and it's maybe more efficient than the "C-suite" system just because of the cost savings not having C people salaries.

Worth a try.

I'm up, C/C++ senior dev :-)

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I've often thought that worker cooperative call centres should be a thing. The people who manage call centres barely understand the contract because inevitably they higher management from outside of the company, since no one on the phones could possibly be management material.

It would probably make quite a lot of money because one of the biggest complaints that companies have about their third party call centres is inefficiencies. Even if the bosses wanted to fix the inefficiencies they can't because they don't understand the contract at a base enough level. In a workers cooperative that wouldn't be an issue since the workers would understand the contract.

Unfortunately it probably would face the issue that all new starts in the industry make, in that most businesses are locked into multi-year contracts with their call centre providers and can't just swap to a new provider whenever they want. So you'd have to time its startup very precisely as a big company came to the end of its contract, or you'd probably have to get some clients on board before you even started.

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[–] Nephalis@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Are there any articles about examples? I only know about aftermath.site but ha e no clue if it is sccessful or not.

[–] mgnome@piefed.social 27 points 3 days ago

Farmers in New Zealand are organized into cooperative, probably the biggest and most successful cooperative there is, and there's almost zero subsidizing from state for them.

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[–] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 75 points 3 days ago (4 children)

It would be the largest cost cutting measure, but the ruling class won't allow it.

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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I actually think an AI would do a better job at running corporations than a human would. Even if it's just an LLM. And I don't mean in a pro-corpo way.

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

My cousin was fired from his job. The manager told him that AI had determined that he was to be fired, and that it was out of his hands. Either that was a true statement or it was a convenient excuse. Kind of scary either way.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have this sneaking suspicion that the company I work for is already ran by an LLM. The CEO is obviously using ChatGPT for everything.

Executives everywhere are. ChatGPT is near perfectly suited for handling a very large portion of executive level tasks.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

But how will it blame you for its mistakes?

/s

[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 40 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Huh I read a dystopian short story about AI micro-managing workers, constantly telling them what to do next to optimize productivity. It ends with near "perfect" dystopian wealth concentration. While in another part of the world they used AI to create a utopia.

Oh it was called Manna by Marshall Brain

The gradual takeover of jobs by AI (starting with fast food), The warehousing of the unemployed in state-controlled facilities, A techno-utopian alternative (Australia) where AI liberates rather than enslaves.

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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 53 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think the AI might have too much empathy for the role.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 3 days ago (5 children)

It might even make smarter decisions. The last few companies I worked for had total morons for CEOs, but they sure maximized short-term profit (by burning the company down).

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[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is what I told my bosses when AI first showed up and they called a meeting to discussed how to leverage it.

It's not going to replace me, it's going to replace you.

[–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Scoffed. They are firm believers that their wealth directly correlates with their intelligence.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Plot twist: board replaces the whole exec layer with CEO AI, keeps the difference, gives nothing to the employees, line goes up, employees now threatened both at the top and the bottom of the ladder, work-work!

[–] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 days ago

When manual workers were replaced by robots, they were told to "retrain and reskill" to get new jobs.

Perhaps these CEO's can retrain to be plumbers, there's good money there.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is how we get Dalamain.

[–] pticrix@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Delamain has shown me more loyalty and care than 99% of NC. I'm on board.

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[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Does it use AI to generate quotes?

Nevermind, it seems to be using predefined quotes.

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[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Dude looks like the Delamain ai.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Personally, I think they resemble Xerxes.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not sure what game this is, deus ex?

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

System Shock 2, one of the best horror game FPSes from the 90's. If you liked the first two Thief games, it was made by the developers of them. Immersive simulations like Bioshock, STALKER, and Prey 2016 were inspired by this particular game. The remaster of SS2 is to be released on the 26th.

😄

System Shock 2 - 25th Anniversary Remaster

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