Column: Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley's magical thinking
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Inspired by the success of Netflix, Hollywood studios pursued Silicon Valley-style hypergrowth with tactics borrowed from the likes of Uber and Lyft.

Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley’s magical thinking::Inspired by the success of Netflix, Hollywood studios pursued Silicon Valley-style hypergrowth with tactics borrowed from the likes of Uber and Lyft.

    • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      1 year ago

      “ChatGPT, read this SEC filing and these quarterly reports. Suggest high level areas for improving shareholder value and the performance of the business as a whole as an agenda for the next board meeting. Issue a statement to the investors. Then golf and do cocaine for three months.”

      CEOs r fuk

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        Its not even funny how true this statement is. ChatGPT could easily replace every managing partner at my company and the business would have all the more money to reinvest into itself without them pocketing all the profit.

    • KevonLooney@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      ChatGPT is actually very bad with numbers or following a step-by-step process. It just says things that sound correct. It doesn’t know what’s going on.

      So it can only replace the bad executives who sound like they know what they’re doing. It literally can’t add 2 + 2.

      • ElectroNeutrino@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        ChatGPT is an LLM tuned to emulate how a human would generate text.

        I would imagine that a different type of AI would be used if they wanted it to work with numbers.