Annoying trust-fund kids never fail to impress us with their arrogant display of ignorance and their half-brained "genial" schemes.<p>We should tax inheritance more just to make our society less subject to the bad taste of this gross people.
This is a perfect manifestation of our social cultural dynamics at play. If an employee comes in hungover on a Friday, it usually means they lived a little on Thursday night. But to think that ‘hungover employees’ is a force of evil is to completely misunderstand the greater human experience we all share. We are all playing in this game of economics to varying degrees of immersion. Ideally, the economy is just a labor focusing engine that puts people in the right place at the right time to produce the maximum efficiency in terms of what they provide to society. But the car that this engine drives is one that is meant expand and deepen the human experience by keeping people healthy for longer and giving people back more free time than ever before to explore themselves and the world. But some people don’t see it this way. Most ceos and founders are able to impose their deeply flawed worldview onto society as a whole by accruing capital at the cost of everything else. They benefit hugely by dragging us as far into ‘the game’ as they can and pitting us against each other. The only solution I can see is one where machines and automation can carry out all the essential functions needed to feed and care for a large population. Then everyone is given a universal basic income and the freedom to choose what they want to do with their lives. I’d like to believe most people will immerse themselves in the more human hobbies like arts and sports instead of wasting their lives away without purpose. Maybe I’m just hopeful
"its only existing product is an artificial intelligence “sales agent” called Artisan, built to automate the work of finding and messaging potential customers."<p>So they use "AI" to generate spam, and that is going to replace the workforce? Good luck!
Well to be fair, the rest of the billboards in SF off the 80/101 are generally bland and corporate AF. Gee, another HR/payment processing platform. Wow, a new iPhone! Anyone unfamiliar with the SF Bay Area's rich cultural history who was just passing thru would think it's a company town filled with docile, well-scrubbed tech serfs.
FFS, it's a marketing campaign. In San Francisco. If it's posted to <i>HN</i> every picosecond, it's obviously working.<p>If you don't make AI-nonsense procurement (or investment) decisions, you aren't its target. The only utility you can provide to the ad is in sharing it. Edgy, insulting marketing is common throughout history because it's effective, both in virality and in defining an us-them dynamic, typically on a strong-weak axis. (You see it in non-advertising memes, too. Snowflakes, Karens, <i>et cetera</i> work because they're infuriating to some people.)
> “They are somewhat dystopian, but so is AI,” said the young CEO over text. “The way the world works is changing.”<p>It really blows my mind that people can see that all of this is taking us to a dystopian future, but are eager to help that along rather than try to avoid it.<p>It's pure sociopathy.
just another ai customer service bot with ads meant to shock you.<p>this guy is competing against a trillion other identical and replaceable firms and he needs recognition so he's making annoying and insulting ads. congrats, you're an edgelord.