“I think what a CEO does is maybe one of the easier things maybe for an AI to do one day,” he said. Although he didn’t talk specifically about CEO functions that an AI could do better, Pichai noted the tech will eliminate some jobs but also “evolve and transition” others—ramifications that mean “people will need to adapt.”
Pichai’s comments come as other tech CEOs have also predicted the coming of a new era of chief executive automations. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously said AI will someday do his job better than him, adding, “I will be nothing but enthusiastic the day that happens.” Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of buy-now-pay-later firm Klarna, also said in a post on X earlier this year that “AI is capable of doing all our jobs, my own included.”
How is an AI chatbot going to eat a business lunch?
One byte at a time?
And the 12 martinis?
Isn’t that just repeating what OP said?
I sincerely apologize, but I did not notice any mentions of martinis. Can you help me spot where OP mentioned these specifically?
They said “business lunch” which implies martinis already.
The three-martini lunch is no longer common practice for several reasons; these include
the implementation of “fitness for duty” programs by numerous companies, the decreased tolerance of alcohol use,[4] a general decrease in available leisure time for business executives andan increase in the size of the martini
Yah, it was a joke (perhaps not a great one) and /s was implied. https://lemmy.world/u/Hawke has it correct - the martinis were fully implied by “business lunch” often known as a “liquid lunch”. No apology necessary internet friend - it was strictly in jest and not being snarky to you or your comment.
Tbf the person they would eat the lunch with is also a chatbot girlfriend thing now.
You’ve never fed bologna sandwiches to a paper shredder?
That’s going on the list. My heart says I don’t need this, but my brain says I do.
Isn’t it the other way around…?
A computer can never be held accountable, so a computer should never hold a management position.
Also, Sundar Pichai is a dick.
Not being held accountable is the main tenant of modern CEOs
Yea I’m not seeing any real difference. Something that plagurisng and takes credit for what others achieved and also isn’t held accountable for anything.
plagurisngplagiarizingWhat happened there lol
Was on the toilet
They are incredibly sorry all the time though.
Which LLMs can already do very well.
Yeah, I see this as the real problem. Companies will use AI CEOs to take the blame when it makes bad decisions, whether it be to investors or in court. I hope we get to see an AI CEO testify in court.
I would love to see a whole AI data-centre and its accompanying nuclear power plant get arrested.
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I’m sure there are many jobs AI is not capable of doing but some CEOs probably do a bad enough job that an AI chat bot could probably do better.
I know we like to dump on CEOs all the time but a good CEO does not seem like one that could be replaced by AI, certainly not by what is currently being hyped. There are just a lot of highly visible companies with CEOs who aren’t actually very good. I suspect the dysfunction of publicly traded companies and the goals of Wall Street investors (or other nations’ equivalents) frequently not aligning with a good long-term health of a company has a strong influence on this.
And of course these guys will be happy to have AI replace them; they’ve already made boatloads of money and think they’ll be able to keep that going even if they lose their job.
Being a good CEO is 95% about social networking; creating and maintaining trustworthy relationships with others who will provide you with good support. AI can’t do this, as it’s a truly human thing.
What about when everone they’re networking with are also AI chatbots?
Why would you assume that the AI who takes the CEO job will be a LLM or “chat bot”?
It might use a LLM to communicate the ideas, but probably not for large scale business strategi.
You don’t even need AI. Just pay staff less and charge customers more, and give the stolen money to shareholders. Ta-da! That’s the CEO’s job done.
Become the shareholder and pay yourself ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
Haha I like that emote
Because upper management is less checked, they make a lot of human choices, such as keeping a lot of bullshit job positions open as garden hermits (there for scenery, to look busy).
AI tasked with actually increasing profits may run the business better than their human counterparts.
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Yeah, doesn’t seem worth using AI to me.
I can manually program that much in an hour.
Something that consistently makes bad choices with little more than random probability? You don’t say
The job of a tech CEO:
- Chase trends
- Mass layoffs in time to make the quarterly reports look better
- FOMO
- ???
- Profit!
Thanks, I hadn’t seen a ??? -> Profit meme in quite a while! : D
Let’s run the job requirements list:
- amoral
- talks a lot about things they don’t understand
- comfortable with lying if it benefits their goals
- emotionless psychpathic traits
- uses enormous amount of resources for questinable gains
- good at manipulation
- bad at maths
- occasional racist outbursts on social media
Yeah all seems to check out. Replace the CEOs, AI can’t do worse.
Nailed it.
Indeed, a LLM can certainly spout bullshit on social media.
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They keep the lie alive to appease the stocks market happy.
And he didn’t specify how shitty the complex tasks will be done.
I’m no fan of CEOs but I don’t really want AI in charge of stuff either
They are both psychopaths, you’d be hard pressed to find a difference.
They both see workers as a numbers and expendable.
I’d say you want a human CEO so there’s accountability, but I don’t know that’s even true anymore.
We as a civilization have 500,000 years of experience dealing with human leaders like that and absolutely no experience dealing with machine leaders like that. Too many variables. Fuck every part of this.
That’s more an indictment of how we believe human society should be run than an endorsement of AI tbh
Dodge v Ford introduced the framework that made this country stray so far from greatness (on the topic of CEOs and corporations).
You first, shithead
AI could replace billionaires.
AI is uncaring and unfeeling, so wouldn’t care if it was taxed appropriately.
if it’s so easy an ai could replace it than why are ceos the highest paid position in the company?
Because job difficulty and job pay aren’t correlated under capitalism.
The easiest job is to own assets. Not manage assets. Own them. Which is to say get your name on a title of a sufficiently large asset, and the money just rolls in while you sleep in bed. You sleep, your asset works. For a large enough asset this also provides the largest pay.
Owners need lieutenants to look after their assets. That’s what a CEO is.
So why are CEOs so highly paid? Because if you do not, they will embezzle (steal) money from your asset since they control every aspect of your asset’s daily functioning! So you need to cut the CEO in on the grift of being a big asset owner.
Easy for computers doesn’t mean it’s easy for humans, and vice versa.
It’s an easy job to do, but quite hard to get into.
CEO’s job is to make business connections and get funding or contracts and stuff. People skills. LLM is really good at manipulation… If you give LLM a physical body, I would say it’s not that far-fetched…
AI can be such a good kiss ass, think of all the emotional suffering it’ll save existing CEOs from having to endure kissing ass of people they hate.
