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I don't know about this particular effort, but AIs running business is straight out of SciFi novels and short stories - usually dystopian futures that extrapolate current US trends. I for one am curious about such efforts. I don't see any reason to believe they won't eventually succeed. Plenty of businesses are run by utterly incompetent narcissistic asshats and yet turn a profit, so the bar seems pretty low.

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Charles Stross' Accelerando <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando>

Had AI agents running businesses for the principal character Manfred Macx over twenty years ago.

The first part of the book sounded pretty convincing then although I thought it would take a long time to happen. It sounds even more convincing now and much closer.

For a while I named by smartphone "Exocortex" as a tongue-in-cheek recognition of the cognition I offloaded to it...

It's not so funny anymore.

imagine if they had better follow through.

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