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Jeff Bezos once talked about how his job depends on the quality of his decisions. He might not make very many decisions, but they are very high impact. Delegati
by al_borland 1y ago
Jeff Bezos once talked about how his job depends on the quality of his decisions. He might not make very many decisions, but they are very high impact. Delegating this high-impact decision making to AI, which often makes random low-quality decisions, sounds like a bad idea.
The CEO also needs to sell those decisions to the organization to get buy-in on the vision and carry it out. How inspired will the organization be by the direction of an AI? No one in an organization will care about this stuff more than the CEO (if they are decent). An AI can’t care, so why would anyone else?
- jimbomins 1y agoAn AI may be making an ultimately random choice (prove the CEO isn't) but it's actual options are weighted on statistical grounds from much wider sources of data than a human can knowingly handle. I say knowingly because actually the sum total of accumulated info for just a month or two of human activity eclipses even today's LLM. And the CEO decisions are frequently flawed because there's a strong filter of the information from below. Perhaps a crowd sourced (employee sourced) decision making process would be best with the wisdom of crowds.
- sharts 1y agoBut his decision quality is why Amazon is full of fake and low quality garbage these days, isn’t it?
- al_borland 1y agoMaybe, but Bezos hasn’t been CEO in over 4 years. Amazon has seemed to double down on the race to the bottom under Jassy.
- swiftcoder 1y ago> his decision quality is why Amazon is full of fake and low quality garbage these days Is that actually negatively impacting Amazon's bottom line? One tends to assume they'd do something about it if they viewed it as a serious threat to revenue