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We will always need a charismatic human being to be the figurehead of an organization, so I don’t think AI will ever replace CEOs. They will wind up making the

We will always need a charismatic human being to be the figurehead of an organization, so I don’t think AI will ever replace CEOs. They will wind up making the important decisions though.

coldtea 3y ago
What we'll probably wont need or have will be masses of consumers. Without those you don't need charismatic CEOs either. Stock markets and charismatic CEOs are a pre-A.I. concern.
RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y ago
Neither Tim Cook or Jeff Bezos comes across as particularly charismatic. I would say they are in their positions because of their vision and execution, despite not being particularly charismatic. So, if an AI CEO can execute better than human CEOs, it will dominate.
- AmericanChopper 3y ago
  They evidently meet some definition of charisma in their ability to influence the people around them. That said, I give you the least charismatic flag wave in Formula 1 history: https://youtu.be/3aG5HEih-O4 https://youtu.be/3aG5HEih-O4
HyperSane 3y ago
Charismatic like the CEO of Herman Miller?
xyzzy123 3y ago
How often do most people physically see CEOs, though? For most purposes maybe it's enough to project charisma in a video. An AI CEO might also be capable of superhuman "interpersonal" feats like "personally" answering every letter, phone call or complaint.
- smegger001 3y ago
  Max Headroom as CEO.
chaxor 3y ago
... perhaps, but the "embodied Turing test" has already become the typical term to describe the new goal post in most ML papers - meaning that (since the usual Turing test was already completed and surpassed by large amounts several years ago) the new goal is to be able to have a system that given the choice between a real human in front of them, and a humanoid robot that looks like a human in front of them (think Westworld), humans are incapable of determining which is which (using proper statistics). This terminology is becoming widely used by prominent AI researchers at e.g. Deepmind (Botvinick et al), Stanford (Finn et al), MIT, Northeastern, Meta, etc. as we have to switch to a new goal in lieu of the new advancements that have been coming up in that past few years. Importantly, this shift has been happening behind the scenes independent of this 'OpenAI' craze, although it's obviously made a select portion of the advancements made accessible by the public. There is much more going on than just the GPT series that few people are engaging with, but much is hidden in the literature. To your point - it's of course extremely strange to conceive of - but while the quirks of human forms may be a useful tool at the moment, there isn't anything necessarily fundamental that requires it for long term.

We will always need a charismatic human being to be the figurehead of an organization, so I don’t think AI will ever replace CEOs. They will wind up making the important decisions though.

coldtea 3y ago

What we'll probably wont need or have will be masses of consumers. Without those you don't need charismatic CEOs either. Stock markets and charismatic CEOs are a pre-A.I. concern.

RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y ago

Neither Tim Cook or Jeff Bezos comes across as particularly charismatic. I would say they are in their positions because of their vision and execution, despite not being particularly charismatic. So, if an AI CEO can execute better than human CEOs, it will dominate.

AmericanChopper 3y ago
They evidently meet some definition of charisma in their ability to influence the people around them. That said, I give you the least charismatic flag wave in Formula 1 history: https://youtu.be/3aG5HEih-O4 https://youtu.be/3aG5HEih-O4

HyperSane 3y ago

Charismatic like the CEO of Herman Miller?

xyzzy123 3y ago

How often do most people physically see CEOs, though? For most purposes maybe it's enough to project charisma in a video. An AI CEO might also be capable of superhuman "interpersonal" feats like "personally" answering every letter, phone call or complaint.

smegger001 3y ago
Max Headroom as CEO.

chaxor 3y ago

... perhaps, but the "embodied Turing test" has already become the typical term to describe the new goal post in most ML papers - meaning that (since the usual Turing test was already completed and surpassed by large amounts several years ago) the new goal is to be able to have a system that given the choice between a real human in front of them, and a humanoid robot that looks like a human in front of them (think Westworld), humans are incapable of determining which is which (using proper statistics). This terminology is becoming widely used by prominent AI researchers at e.g. Deepmind (Botvinick et al), Stanford (Finn et al), MIT, Northeastern, Meta, etc. as we have to switch to a new goal in lieu of the new advancements that have been coming up in that past few years. Importantly, this shift has been happening behind the scenes independent of this 'OpenAI' craze, although it's obviously made a select portion of the advancements made accessible by the public. There is much more going on than just the GPT series that few people are engaging with, but much is hidden in the literature. To your point - it's of course extremely strange to conceive of - but while the quirks of human forms may be a useful tool at the moment, there isn't anything necessarily fundamental that requires it for long term.