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If this works at all, they'll be telling AIs to start multiple companies and keeping the ones that work best.

But if that works, it won't take long for "starting companies" and "being a CEO" to look like comically dated anachronisms. Instead of visual and content slop we'll have a corporate stonk slop.

If ASI becomes a thing, it will be able to understand and manipulate the entirety of human culture - including economics and business - to create ends we can't imagine.




Fortunately we are nowhere near ASI.

I don't think we are even close to AGI.

That does bring up a fascinating "benchmark" potential -- start a company on AI advice, with sustained profit as the score. I would love to see a bunch of people trying to start AI generated company ideas. At this point, the resulting companies would be so sloppy they will all score negative. And it would still completely depend on the person interpreting the AI.


I would bet money this doesn't work

The future of programming will be increasingly small numbers of highly skilled humans, augmented by AI

(exactly how today we are literally augmented by Google and Stack Overflow -- who can claim they are not?)

The idea of autonomous AIs creating and executing a complete money-making business is a marketing idea for AI companies

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Because if "you" can do it, why can't everyone else do it? I don't see a competitive advantage there

Humans and AI are good at different things. The human+AI is going to outcompete AI only FOR A LONG time

I will bet that will be past our lifetimes, for sure




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