Comment by shermantanktop
Comment by shermantanktop 12 hours ago
The skill ladder for humans assumes CEO functions require higher and better skills than a vending machine manager. But there's no reason to assume that AI capabilities map to those jobs in the same way.
It's quite possible that an AI would do a better job at CEO than running a vending machine.
And it's quite possible that successful CEOs would not succeed at managing a vending machine. It's almost guaranteed that many will fail, given that some C-level people are selected for risk appetite and social skills over actual business acumen.
I encourage you to read the Anthropic blog post, which includes situations like:
- hallucinating conversations with fictitious people
- role playing as a real person and telling them they are present in meatspace, or claimed to have visited a fictional location
- hallucinating details of an account involved in payments
- both ignoring lucrative opportunities and accepting loss-making deals
- making commitments before having done any research
While yes, the skills to run a vending machine and lead a company are not exactly the same, I think the nature of failures discussed means they would likely affect both roles.
I think there's every possibility that a present-day AI allowed to act as CEO would make mediocre choices for some period and then decide that it was a character in a scifi novel selling bespoke space-yachts to comet-mining magnates.