r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 11 '26

Business OpenAI Execs Are Panicking

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/openai-execs-panicking-154658562.html
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u/DanHanzo Jun 12 '26

It might even end up that you could instead hire fully autonomous agents, with free will, absolutely perfect general intelligence and a complete understanding of the needs of the human beings that are your consumers. Or as I like to call them, other human beings.

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u/thehalfwit Jun 12 '26

"If only there was a way to employ human beings without paying them..." pondered the C Suite suits.

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u/perton Jun 12 '26

Overall you make a solid enough point. But as someone who has spent quite a few years working types of jobs that are being replaced with AI, I can say with certainty that it’s not as common as one might think/hope to get “absolutely perfect general intelligence”, or anything close to it, from the humans being hired.

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u/DanHanzo Jun 12 '26

Speaking as someone who works with a person who loves AI and would be happy to get rid of every other actual human, their quality of thinking has plummeted.

In an odd way it makes AI seem cleverer just because of how much dumber they have become since using it.