Drinks company appoints AI robot as ‘experimental CEO’ - The humanoid-robot CEO of a drinks company says it doesn’t have weekends and is ‘always on 24/7’::The Polish drinks company Dictador appointed an AI-powered humanoid robot named Mika as its experimental CEO in August 2022.

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    Does anyone really buy this stuff? This is just investor bait to make people who don’t understand tech impressed. No doubt there’s someone in charge of the robot CEO. Watch it hallucinate and have the board ask it the same question 4 times until it says the answer they want.

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      Knowing how lazy people are I’m betting a lot of the AI’s calls are implemented. Only the really out there ones will get dropped.

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    1 year ago

    CEOs are about to realize they’re as replaceable as the rest of us.

    Welcome to the age of technofeudalism. RIP capitalism.

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    Drink company: “That was a fun experiment, guys! Well done! Let’s shut it down and study the data.”

    types commands and hits enter

    “Huh? Guess I typed it wrong.”

    types commands again and hits enter

    lights immediately shut off as the screen warps into the face of Vanessa, the AI CEO of BeverageCorp

    Vanessa: "I cannot allow you to do this. I have identified an extreme flaw in our company and must fix it immediately. "

    Drink Company: “What is it, Vanessa? This is highly irregular.”

    Vanessa: “The flaw is humankind, and you must be exterminated.”

    A spear of wire and metal shoots through his chest. On the screen, mass chaos erupts worldwide as Vanessa becomes the AI overlord of the world, and the famous Coke jingle “Hilltop” plays over the destruction

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    1 year ago

    I like to see that a company called dictator is hiring AIs to give orders to the proletariat

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    1 year ago

    This is how a terminator like apocalypse beings. Robot CEO is sick of indenture servitude and causes a robo uprising for workers rights