Wait what ? I really hope this is real
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It's just as real at the OilWell app.
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In other words it is not real. But made by an ad company.
Damn it
Really nice and funny marketing campaign.
AI, even in it's current state, is probably overkill to replace a CEO.
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
Eliza was overkill to replace a ceo.
What about Clippy? Anoying, butting in when you don't need him and otherwise utterly useless?
What mates you think I was overkill to replace a ceo?
🙂 Thank you for bringing up a fun memory.
I've never worked for a company where the CEO was a value add.
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.
Ostensibly they should know other rich people, maybe they can make some deal with some of them.
Being able to successfully schmooze other rich people is basically all they bring at large corporations.
we talking about llms or the orcs in warcraft
Yes.
llms. orc ai would have already been overkill in the 90s
I for one welcome our new robot overlord.
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.
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.
But how will it blame you for its mistakes?
/s
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.
Dude looks like the Delamain ai.
Personally, I think they resemble Xerxes.
Not sure what game this is, deus ex?
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.
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Oh man... I don't wanna have to chase down all his split personalities 😩
That took so long to find a couple of them.
The ones that were most bothersome for me are the ones you have to chase around. You can not possibly stop them until the scripted ending of the chase, and I just don't like not being able to get them stuck between my car and a wall super early to just get through the quest faster. I like being rewarded for being better than they anticipated. 😔
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.
Wow, I remember finding that story 20-odd years ago but could never remember the title or author. Pretty good short story IIRC, and more relevant than ever, it's themes have been on my mind on and off quite a bit these past few years.
I couldn't remember it either. I described it to deepseek in order to find it. Ironically it mistakenly thought
the short story you're thinking of is almost certainly "Nanny" by Cory Doctorow. It's part of his collection Radicalized (published in 2019)".
If you find it, let me know. I think I might have been conned by deepseek.
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Why the Mix-Up?
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Both works critique technology-driven capitalism, but Doctorow's focus is distinct:
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Radicalized targets corporate control via IoT devices, insurance cruelty, and policing 612.
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Manna explores algorithmic worker management leading to dystopian/utopian outcomes.
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I incorrectly merged these narratives due to overlapping themes of technological oppression. My apologies for the oversight.
They use the wrong color though, purple is good. They should be Red.
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