Submission statement: Today’s chief executives are the last generation to manage all-human workforces as companies increasingly adopt artificial intelligence, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Thursday.
“From this point forward… we will be managing not only human workers but also digital workers,” he said on a panel at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Benioff provided a recent example from his own business.
He said Salesforce’s software had been used to help run the annual conference in Davos for more than a decade. But this year, for the first time, the San Francisco-based tech giant incorporated an “AI agent” into its app for Davos attendees to help them decide which panels to attend.
Mooselotte45 on
This all sounds so goofy as someone who has made a good faith effort to integrate these tools into my work. Anything fact based is awful for these tools – where hallucinations kill it.
Heat treating steel? Here’s the wrong data.
Calculating stresses in a part? Here’s the wrong formula for this use.
Selecting the best alloy to use? Why not base the decision on this made up data.
To date these things are glorified chat bots, and are only helpful writing generic emails or similar tasks.
If I was booking a conference and a chatbot asked “can I help you select your itinerary” I would laugh and close that window so damn fast
knotatumah on
Or maybe its time people stop working for over-paid *human* leadership?
2000TWLV on
These CEOs are e hella overconfident. Who says AI won’t take *their* jobs?
LandofBacon on
Benioff has been super vocal about a few things related to AI.
1. AI will fundamentally change everyone’s life in the next few months
2. Salesforce has made monumental gains with its AI products
3. Everyone else’s AI is complete shit
This is all a marketing ploy filled with massive amounts of hopium, and everyone would do well to remember Benioff has a major conflict of interest when he makes these statements.
chfp on
„Today’s companies are the last to manage all-human executives“
FTFY
key1234567 on
Why should we depend on computers and ai to do everything for us, I fundamentally reject this.
Faebit on
Today’s CEO’s are easier to replace with AI than any other part of the workforce.
rollingrock16 on
In other words companies manage automation in their production flow. So revolutionary and novel.
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Submission statement: Today’s chief executives are the last generation to manage all-human workforces as companies increasingly adopt artificial intelligence, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Thursday.
“From this point forward… we will be managing not only human workers but also digital workers,” he said on a panel at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Benioff provided a recent example from his own business.
He said Salesforce’s software had been used to help run the annual conference in Davos for more than a decade. But this year, for the first time, the San Francisco-based tech giant incorporated an “AI agent” into its app for Davos attendees to help them decide which panels to attend.
This all sounds so goofy as someone who has made a good faith effort to integrate these tools into my work. Anything fact based is awful for these tools – where hallucinations kill it.
Heat treating steel? Here’s the wrong data.
Calculating stresses in a part? Here’s the wrong formula for this use.
Selecting the best alloy to use? Why not base the decision on this made up data.
To date these things are glorified chat bots, and are only helpful writing generic emails or similar tasks.
If I was booking a conference and a chatbot asked “can I help you select your itinerary” I would laugh and close that window so damn fast
Or maybe its time people stop working for over-paid *human* leadership?
These CEOs are e hella overconfident. Who says AI won’t take *their* jobs?
Benioff has been super vocal about a few things related to AI.
1. AI will fundamentally change everyone’s life in the next few months
2. Salesforce has made monumental gains with its AI products
3. Everyone else’s AI is complete shit
This is all a marketing ploy filled with massive amounts of hopium, and everyone would do well to remember Benioff has a major conflict of interest when he makes these statements.
„Today’s companies are the last to manage all-human executives“
FTFY
Why should we depend on computers and ai to do everything for us, I fundamentally reject this.
Today’s CEO’s are easier to replace with AI than any other part of the workforce.
In other words companies manage automation in their production flow. So revolutionary and novel.
We’re already there for over 50 years.
Computer used to be a job title.
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)
Ceos don’t „manage“ any workforces anyway. They just skim off the top and help give customers as cheap of a product as possible.
Smart people like to overestimate.
Machnines need operators !
Smart people need to operate AI !
The ones who can actually see errors in AI work.
I think it would be easier to replace the C suite with an AI.
Not sure why anyone listens to this guy; we tried to use Salesforce Einstein and it was a f/ joke. We wasted months on it.
Aren’t CEO’s the ones that a company would have the most to gain by replacing with AI?
I’ve never met a CEO that managed their workforce. Most CEO’s haven’t the faintest idea what their staff are doing or how to do it.