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How do these people become CEOs they're as thick as several short planks nailed together.
Firstly every single company that has tried to replace its employees with AI has always ended up having issues. Secondly even if that wasn't the case, people are not going to be happy about it so it's not something you should brag publicly about.
If you're going to replace all of your employees with AI just do it quietly, that way if it fails it's not a public failure, and if it succeeds (it won't) then you talk about it.
Being a CEO has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence, I guarantee you that Duolingo has employees who are far more intelligent than the CEO.
People who are smart in one or two domains often overestimate how smart they are in other domains. They develop a mental model, confirm it quickly, and never re-asses it.
The issue with AI, is we're probably hitting our first real S curve with the current technology's performance but a lot of people who bet big are only see the exponential part and assuming there won't be a level off, or that the level of is far away.
There is no Moore's law for AI.
If they do it quietly, they won't get the stock price bump every company gets from saying they're going to replace (costly) employees with AI.
People keep forgetting that these companies’s product is stock price, not whatever they’re advertising at any given moment.
The “CEOs” have gotten sloppy because the grift has gotten so easy they assume everyone is in on it. They assume there’s no need to hide the grift.