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Re:Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster by eddythompson80 on Monday January 27, 2025 @01:56AM (#42838168)
> The real story nobody is saying out loud is that CEOs are much more replaceable by AI than are software engineers.

Sorry, but that’s not true at all. It doesn’t really make a lot of sense. Who is replacing the CEO of a company with AI? The board? The board doesn’t want/can’t run the company. They will hire someone to “run the CEO AI”? Won’t that just be a CEO using AI? Maybe that makes it so the CEO is paid less Because now they just run OpenCEOv4? I don’t see it happening though. Also a very large portion of the day to day of CEO level execs at those big companies interpersonal and/or performative. You won’t be replacing that with AI anytime soon. You still need a face of it at the end of the day.

Re:Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster by re-thc on Monday January 27, 2025 @05:53AM (#42839617)
> You still need a face of it at the end of the day.

Wasn't that the whole point of AI generated images / video?

Re:Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster by eddythompson80 on Monday January 27, 2025 @01:18PM (#42844006)
No? That makes no sense.
Re:Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster by conartist6 on Monday January 27, 2025 @07:33AM (#42840466)
Lets say that CEOs are no more or less replaceable with AI than all the other jobs.

Throwing away all the humans to replace them with AIs is a move only an AI CEO would make, because and AI couldn't give less of a shit if something it does blows up in its face. Well, apparently real CEOs couldn't care less either. Imagining you're going to run a successful software organization (once you've hollowed out the people who both understand the work and actually give a shit about it) is insane. These people know that it will blow up, but they hope that it is only after they can rake in their bonus pay for the mounds of short term profits that result form layoffs, after which they'll float away under their golden parachutes leaving their former companies to collapse under the weight of institutionalized incompetence.

Re:Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster by disqard on Monday January 27, 2025 @06:59PM (#42847311)
Yes, I agree with the picture you're painting here, but it befuddles me where all these grifters think they'll go?

They'll have to live in bunkers for the rest of their lives.

Imagine that you're one of them, and you want to go watch a game (or a T. Swift concert) -- so you hop on your private jet and go to the stadium/arena. If you happen to be caught on-camera and your face is up there, on the Jumbotron, every single person there is gonna boo you. That's what your life will be like. What's the point?

Re:Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster by majewsky on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @02:48PM (#42857032)
They'll just fly Taylor in for a private concert. Everybody has a price.
Re:Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster by disqard on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @03:50AM (#42862911)
You are right, and you made me sadder. Have an upboat.
Re:Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster by justinclift on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @10:53PM (#42874644)
> Well, apparently real CEOs couldn't care less either.

Some healthcare ones did for a few weeks, after one of them got whacked by someone truly over their bullshit.

Re:Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster by butlike on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @12:23PM (#42855067)
Flip the script. The CEO AI runs the company. No one runs the CEO AI.

> You still need a face of it at the end of the day.

Feel like that one's solved with 30 seconds on DALL-E

Re:Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster by eddythompson80 on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @02:42PM (#42856962)
again, that also makes no sense. If AI reaches that level of competence, then why would it only replace the CEO position or be better at being a CEO than say a people's manager? an engineer, HR, legal, sales, marketing etc? In fact, why not just create an "All AI company". you just register it, and run OpenCompanyAI, feed it some parameters "You are a company selling
Re:Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster by butlike on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @03:00PM (#42857205)
I don't think it's out of the realm of possibilities; CEO is just what the conversation was focused on.