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> Sure they can - especially when conferences are designed to have an API.

This sounds about as realistic as all of the crypto and blockchain people talking about distributed governance and such. The API part and agents pulling data is fine, I doubt they'd be running a business though, since something tells me that sort of thing is gatekept way more even from other people.

For a cool fictional portrayal of AI businesses, Altered Carbon touched upon it somewhat.



To me it's sounds 1000x more likely than AI that can write complex software. I guess it's not shocking that people fall for all the narrow scoped demos. They fell for the trap that believing software is easy when it's the hardest thing an intelligence can do.

Show me syntax I'm impressed, show me how you manage your state and invariants and I'm horrified.


Programmers love to feel important, but no, software isn't even close to the hardest thing an intelligence can do.

Unless you mean something like bioinformatics or another highly specialized field that isn't actually "software".

Most software is dime a dozen.


I think maybe you assumed I meant the AI agent would run the company well, or that the mergers would be shrewd business moves.

Not at all.

But I don't know that they would do any worse than an average human would in the exact same situations.





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