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To be fair we've seen dozens of CEOs and boards of directors get prematurely thrilled about the idea of replacing high-paid jobs with AI (or at least with AI and some lower paying jobs to curate the good slop from the eldritch horrors and hallucinations).
This guy is being semi-self-aware at least, and they all need to be reminded the economy despairs for good jobs
Also, I bet a nickel if we looked at his clerical staff we can find bullshit jobs there to keep clerks running around so he feels important while he walks through the office. Take those guys and let them work at home as part of the LLM team. I bet they'd appreciate doing real work (and skipping the commute).
Right now it takes specialists with a solid LORA game to make generative AI produce functional results. If we acknowledged this, then we'd either integrate AI as a new tool for doing stuff or we'd ditch it and keep our artists and experts. (And, with newfound appreciation for them, give them a raise?)
Also I still stand by the notion that well-treated, well-paid workers are productive workers. It was recently affirmed by a farm expert noting that prison inmates are outperformed by low-paid undocumented laborers who are outperformed (in turn) by well paid workers (documented or otherwise.)
We could make capitalism work if our bourgeoisie wasn't so busy trying to be aristocrats and hyper-bigots.
Or we could nationalize AI development like China in a step towards post scarcity, but that would likely require violent revolution.
@uriel238 The race to off-board labour leaves me, repeatedly, with the unanswered question: Once enough people are out of work, who's going to BUY what these companies are selling? How do they expect to survive in an economy with permanent, historically high unemployment?
It's a very good question. Our ownership class isn't exactly bright and they haven't been thinking past the next business quarter since the wolf of wall street 1980s. TBH I'm not quite sure if upper management of large corporations actually know what they're doing, but they're too powerful in top-down management hierarchies. Elon Musk has well proven he doesn't at all know what he's doing, but is too wealthy to be challenged or questioned.
Poetically, the story of replacing high-skill jobs with AI systems would end the same way The Brain Center at Whipples ended. It was a Twilight Zone episode about automation of factory jobs, in which the boss who fired everyone gets replaced (with Robbie the Robot).
In fact, if boards of directors are smart, they might look at automating all or part of the upper management process: There are serious decisions to be made at the top (e.g. managing project creep and setting reasonable deadlines based on scope; keeping Parkinson's Law in check on all fronts.
The thing is we can see from the outside that our typical XOs fail at effectively doing this kind of management. It was evident to me in the AAA game industry. Top management has routinely pushed up deadlines, and has routinely crunched their teams (which still doesn't help) and has routinely churned out underbaked, under-tested, buggy AF games that are really just fronts for micro-transaction vending (despite a $70 release price point), and all the pre-release hype only exacerbates the disappointment.
Right now AAA games are being given the private equity treatment, and we're watching dev teams get sinkholed like Toys 'R Us. I'd expect management computers could be programmed not to run the business for its own ego, and not to rely simply on what the company traditionally did.
That said, we're heading towards the reality of Ayn Rand's fantasy when all the takers have been disposed of, and the makers are left: to their horror, they really can't make stuff without the experience and knowhow of the working class, something John Deere discovered a few years ago when the execs decided to try their own hand at unskilled jobs, causing industrial disasters as a result.
Maybe after enough disasters, industrial and natural, we'll collectively come to understand why Chesterton's Fence needed to be there in the first place. Sadly it looks like it's still going to get worse before it gets better.