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Last year I tendered a logo redesign to freelancers on a specialized website. The experience was not pleasant. After all they are humans. They had diverging int

Last year I tendered a logo redesign to freelancers on a specialized website. The experience was not pleasant. After all they are humans. They had diverging interests. Two designers did something I liked and I would have liked to combine their work, but they didn't cooperate. I had to compromise. One of the designers got very angry at me because of that compromise. The other one didn't give me all the files I requested and messed up half of the files. Of course it is also my fault. After all, I am human, too. Stable diffusion is not quite right, either. It wouldn't have worked. However I was struck how easy it is to just give "orders". I didn't need to cushion my demands to make them socially acceptable. I didn't need to be afraid to annoy someone. I just could refine and refine and refine. A lot of pressure just went poof. I imagine upper management is feeling the same about middle management. The AI spark is already here now. Some people will try to replace middle management with AI or are already trying. Of course they will fail spectacularly. Several times. But there will be a time where someone gets it and then it will spread like wildfire through the corporate world. I imagine it will be something like a connection of GPT-n (where n >= 3) to ERP data. Upper management will tell the AI to determine detail plans for hourly workers and fill the ERP with orders for them. Hourly workers get a tablet to tick off tasks. The AI will check whether the plan is executed and escalate if something goes wrong they can't fix themselves.

arrosenberg 4y ago
That only works in scenarios where labor is fungible, like logo design. Try telling a key employee all that stuff, you'll get told you can do it yourself.
- _nalply 4y ago
  Of course. Perhaps it is wrong to talk about middle management being replaced by AI. It seems that AI as of now is not very inventive. It is a clever mash-up of things that were already done by humans. But most employees just do that. They learn from others in school, college or on the job how to do things in their profession and then employ what they have learned. If they use a computer to execute then actually nothing stops them from being replaced by the computer itself.

arrosenberg 4y ago

That only works in scenarios where labor is fungible, like logo design. Try telling a key employee all that stuff, you'll get told you can do it yourself.

_nalply 4y ago
Of course. Perhaps it is wrong to talk about middle management being replaced by AI. It seems that AI as of now is not very inventive. It is a clever mash-up of things that were already done by humans. But most employees just do that. They learn from others in school, college or on the job how to do things in their profession and then employ what they have learned. If they use a computer to execute then actually nothing stops them from being replaced by the computer itself.