Maybe they're right, maybe not, but it is ironic.
It seems like, at least for tasks like distilling the work done at lower levels and passing it up the management tree, LLMs should be good at that. Maybe they could take out some levels at least.
And they can be programmed to be 100% selfless and on-mission: no turf battles or other internal politics. Everybody’s job involves office politics of course, but my gut says management has a lot more of it than engineering, so zeroing that out could be more significant.
The models don’t generate what’s right and good: they generate what people are likely to generate.
I dunno. You are probably right. But it’d be an experiment. It wouldn’t be an experiment if it was a sure thing.
> They managed to fine-tune models to be good at math and coding, despite the vast majority of humanity being awful at those…
Think about the kind of people who are leading the companies making these models, and their underlings who will be leading the fine tuning.
Math and coding are fairly objective. Fine tuning for morality and ethics is going to reflect the biases of those people.
Trying to replace the foot-soldiers of capital in a capitalist system would be bold, if one could raise the capital for the experiment.
Attempting to replace this layer is unwise in this system. Someone else would need to take the blame, and you can be sure it won’t be the sociopaths at the top. It’d be the losers who get the blame AND do the work. At this point the work would slow, then stop. Or at least that’s how I see things playing out?
More interesting, to me, is what happens to the clueless in that scenario. Without work these folks would probably revolt?