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Speculative headlines about artificial intelligence are missing the point. Here’s what America’s top CEOs told us they intend to use A.I. for
Fortune ^ | June 21, 2023 | Jeffery Sonnenfeld & Steven Tian

Posted on 06/22/2023 5:05:39 PM PDT by Twotone

Amidst all the media frenzy surrounding A.I. (my team counted over 200 Wall Street Journal headlines featuring A.I. in only one month), it can be hard to discern the genuine applications of A.I. from unwarranted commercial hype and paralyzing societal alarmism. At our 134th Yale CEO Summit last week, we were joined by 200 top CEOs across sectors who provided valuable insights into how America’s largest businesses are actually integrating A.I. to transform their business models.

These insights show that A.I. is already well on its way to becoming embedded across business operations. Here are some select, never-before-published personal insights of last week’s CEO Summit participants on how their companies are already using A.I.

Amidst much so much hype over A.I., these CEOs are leading the way in applying the new technology to solvable problems while steering ingenuity towards the areas where humans cannot be replaced: human empathy, judgment, synthesis, and novel originality, where artificial intelligence cannot yet match genuine intelligence.

As Albert Einstein advised, “The only source of knowledge is through experience.” It is time to move beyond the A.I. cheerleaders’ optimistic hype, as well as the Cassandras’ alarmist fatalism, to examine what is actually happening, instead of speculating from the sidelines.

Professional services employees could be the most affected–but to what extent?

Some thought leaders have argued that A.I. will have a great displacement effect on professional “knowledge workers,” whose monopoly on esoteric knowledge will now be challenged by generative A.I. capable of regurgitating even the most obscure factoids far beyond the rote memory and recall capacity of any human.

Yet the comments of professional services CEOs reflected an overwhelming belief that A.I. can never truly replace human judgment in their fields, even as the new technology disrupts many facets of their business.

(Excerpt) Read more at fortune.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ai; ceos

1 posted on 06/22/2023 5:05:39 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

We know what they will use it for. Reducing employee hours and numbers and maximizing their market positions.

I know that Blackrock will be using it to keep track of as much of the economy as possible in order to profit on the margins of all segments.

Do I need to read the article to know this?


2 posted on 06/22/2023 5:07:20 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: Jonty30

So when all the people are replaced by robots, who’s going to buy the products? if the middle class is gone, who’s going to pay taxes? The elite don’t pay anything and the poor don’t pay, where’s the money going to come from?


3 posted on 06/22/2023 5:16:02 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Jonty30

Rest assured - Skynet will destroy BlackRock first then kill Larry Fink.

First step in a takeover is to kill the leaders...


4 posted on 06/22/2023 5:17:33 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Twotone

2/3rds of workers will be replaced by AI. These AI workers will not pay SS tax, nor will employers pay SS tax. Think about that very hard before you trust the federal reserve to cut you a monthly check because you earned it.


5 posted on 06/22/2023 5:19:15 PM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: Twotone

See HUM∀NS. Avoid Niska


6 posted on 06/22/2023 5:22:09 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("There should have been an age and risk stratification approach." still true)
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To: Keyhopper

The elites don’t care about having billions of dollars. What they do care about is relative social position that is unobtainable to the rest of us.

They think they can eliminate us as drains on resources, but still maintain enough wealth generation that they still live top of the world type lives.

They will be happy if they live millionaire lives, while we live less then third world lives.


7 posted on 06/22/2023 5:22:36 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: Keyhopper

Well the white man of course.


8 posted on 06/22/2023 5:27:51 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Twotone

Yesterday I used ChatGPT for the first time. I used it to create a PHP script. Very impressive. No more outsourcing overseas.


9 posted on 06/22/2023 5:36:16 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Can you use it to replace the H1B infestation?


10 posted on 06/22/2023 6:19:46 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Jeff Chandler

I know. The first week chatgpt came out, i was laboring over a complicated business plan for a client.. thought what the hell, 20 minutes later had an excellent plan with items i had not thought about, didn’t even know about...
I’ll never forget that moment.


11 posted on 06/22/2023 6:21:32 PM PDT by SandwicheGuy ("Man is the only pack animal that will follow an unstable leader." Cesar Chavetz)
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To: NWFree

Can you use it to replace the H1B infestation?

It’s likely that’s who wrote all the code, Hang Lo and Kumar.


12 posted on 06/22/2023 6:24:40 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: Twotone

BUMP for later reading


13 posted on 06/22/2023 6:58:21 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: Twotone

If they can get AI to stop hallucinating, as it is well known it does, then white collar workers are gonna be in for it.


14 posted on 06/22/2023 7:10:49 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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