This is the most tone deaf thing I've read since the last Jamie Dimon outburst. You simultaneously convey that the worst aspect of human workers is their humanity, while the best aspect of AI workers is their sexual assaultability.
Jesus fuck man go to a grocery store and walk amongst real people just one time and write a substack about that instead of whatever sent you down the path to writing this.
I'm impressed you responded, I must've missed the light tone. However, that's why it doesn't translate to regular people. Regular people have had AI and it's very marginal use cases thrust into their iOS notifications and Google results, while also being told it's going to replace everyone's jobs (rather, only the jobs people enjoy doing). It's a prime example of a CEO potentially revealing how little they think of their own employees (who are real people with conscious thoughts) by simply acknowledging the grace with which AI takes an awkward compliment. It all combines to a troubling admission when read from a middle class perspective.
I know the AI-taking-jobs concern is widespread. And I’m now realizing how top-of-mind it is for a lot of folks. For what it’s worth, I don’t believe the “job apocalypse” predictions, but I do think we need to watch closely.
And also fwiw, this company has no employees other than me. It’s a Substack. I myself need to experiment with and learn about AI, so I’m doing that in public — hopefully in an entertaining and informative way. And one of the things I’m learning, which I’ll explain in the next post, is that many jobs that would be trivial for humans are confounding to even state-of-the-art LLMs. So if the company grow, we’ll be hiring a lot of humans!
I like the way your friend chose a bottling of wine by consuming enough electricity to kill a school of salmon instead of just asking the clerk for a recommendation.
Thoroughly enjoyed today's newsletter (I am human). I was curious which AI program are you using Henry, to create your AI newsroom. ChatGPT 4.5 or something you are developing on your own?
Brillliant...I am looking forward to your progress. Big fan of what you did with BI. And of course I used to get your ML research when I was at Reuters eons ago....
Thank you, Edge! Though I'm sorry the tongue-in-cheek tone and fun of this didn't come through for you. The next few posts will talk about our team's capabilities in more detail. I hope you enjoy them.
This is the most tone deaf thing I've read since the last Jamie Dimon outburst. You simultaneously convey that the worst aspect of human workers is their humanity, while the best aspect of AI workers is their sexual assaultability.
Jesus fuck man go to a grocery store and walk amongst real people just one time and write a substack about that instead of whatever sent you down the path to writing this.
Hmm. Thanks, Decker. Confused by this. But apologies if it sounds tone deaf. (It was supposed to be fun.)
I'm impressed you responded, I must've missed the light tone. However, that's why it doesn't translate to regular people. Regular people have had AI and it's very marginal use cases thrust into their iOS notifications and Google results, while also being told it's going to replace everyone's jobs (rather, only the jobs people enjoy doing). It's a prime example of a CEO potentially revealing how little they think of their own employees (who are real people with conscious thoughts) by simply acknowledging the grace with which AI takes an awkward compliment. It all combines to a troubling admission when read from a middle class perspective.
Thank you, Decker! Extremely helpful.
I know the AI-taking-jobs concern is widespread. And I’m now realizing how top-of-mind it is for a lot of folks. For what it’s worth, I don’t believe the “job apocalypse” predictions, but I do think we need to watch closely.
And also fwiw, this company has no employees other than me. It’s a Substack. I myself need to experiment with and learn about AI, so I’m doing that in public — hopefully in an entertaining and informative way. And one of the things I’m learning, which I’ll explain in the next post, is that many jobs that would be trivial for humans are confounding to even state-of-the-art LLMs. So if the company grow, we’ll be hiring a lot of humans!
Thank you for your thoughtful comments!
People are happy to fry the planet to process their AI prompts for this kind of shit? Holy moly.
It sounds like you’re playing make believe with dolls and calling it a company.
The best time to delete this post was immediately after posting it. The second best time is now.
I’d encourage you to pursue a diversity of perspectives on this issue. Other AIs are pretty creeped out by this: https://chatgpt.com/share/6806cc65-2604-8010-bd2f-dbcf7cf34883
Henry. They are whooping your ass in the QTs. Please talk to a (human) therapist.
I like the way your friend chose a bottling of wine by consuming enough electricity to kill a school of salmon instead of just asking the clerk for a recommendation.
Thoroughly enjoyed today's newsletter (I am human). I was curious which AI program are you using Henry, to create your AI newsroom. ChatGPT 4.5 or something you are developing on your own?
Thanks, Arindam! ChatGPT 4o, I think.
Brillliant...I am looking forward to your progress. Big fan of what you did with BI. And of course I used to get your ML research when I was at Reuters eons ago....
No one should ever feel bad about paying someone a compliment. Good luck all. Fascinating reading.
Thank you, Claire! And...really? I feel like that's a danger area. Too conservative?
Thank you, Edge! Though I'm sorry the tongue-in-cheek tone and fun of this didn't come through for you. The next few posts will talk about our team's capabilities in more detail. I hope you enjoy them.
your "team" does not have "capabilities" you nitwit
Thanks, K. Thor. ChatGPT (“my team”) does have many capabilities.
And many not-capabilities. Will explore some of the latter soon.
There is nothing tongue-in-cheek or fun about any of this. JFC, there is something *seriously* wrong with you.
Thanks, Sooz. I respectfully disagree. But thanks for sharing your view.