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What the CEOs are missing is that by replacing their workers with AI, they're effectively replacing consumers with AI also. And AIs don't buy products.
by dreamcompiler 1y ago
What the CEOs are missing is that by replacing their workers with AI, they're effectively replacing consumers with AI also. And AIs don't buy products.
- pjc50 1y agoSince the dotcom era, it's not about getting consumers to buy the product at profitable margins, it's about getting investors to buy the stock on promises.
- dreamcompiler 1y agoThat was true during the ZIRP era. I think it's becoming less true now.
- falcor84 1y ago> AIs don't buy products As of the last couple of weeks, AIs can buy products[0][1]. Obviously for now these are intended to function on a short leash, but I wouldn't bet against agents with long-term horizon goals becoming actual consumers on their own in a few years. [0] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-agents-to-payments-ap2-protocol https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/a... [1] https://openai.com/index/buy-it-in-chatgpt/ https://openai.com/index/buy-it-in-chatgpt/