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Comment by Brajeshwar | Hacker News Reader

The number of people believing that the primary job of the CEO is to "do" is too high. Actually, the primary job of a CEO is to take decisions with whatever information they have at their disposal. The decision may not always be right, but s/he should be able to make it within a certain timeframe.

AI might likely do most of a CEO's "things to do," but the better CEOs are still going to be the ones who can take decisions.

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There are some other jobs too.

A CEO is the head of sales for the company’s stock if it’s that kind of company.

He or she also tends to do a lot of recruiting or at least oversee that process a lot.

AI could replace some of the decision making and optimization for revenue, etc. but I’d see CEOs using it rather than being replaced.

Of course that will be the case for most jobs. AI will only replace jobs that are nothing but generating low to mid level content and/or making very uncreative decisions whose answers can be found latent in existing training data.

It's the "information" part I'm worried about. Humans are biased and have many blind spots. Garbage in, garbage out.

AI can make those decisions better.

It really can't. It can finish some text though that infers the most likely completion taking into account tokens in the prompt and generated content.

I love the HN mindset. See, most people here have some aspiration towards being the next great CEO so of course AI can’t possibly do that job. But, sure, it can do everyone else’s job and even drive cars and fly planes.

Please.

It's pretty comical to read - "no no no, it can't predict THOSE tokens!!!" XD

Making intelligent decisions != predicting tokens. Current AI only resembles intelligence to those that don't understand it. It's a tool that should operate with the guidance of a human.

It is a statistical model. Why would it not be any better than a CEO looking at spreadsheets? (Rhetorical question.)

Because that's not all a leader does? Maybe it could replace some of the repeatable parts of spreadsheet looker worker's job though- or augment the decision making process of spreadsheet reader CEO if she's okay with hallucinations sometimes.

Sufficiently advanced token prediction is indistinguishable from intelligence.

Since you asked nicely- I have no real desire to be a CEO. I also have no yearning to work for a glorified shell script. There's a disturbing mindset shared by some people here who can't differentiate between intelligence and the babbling of a mechanical turk.

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