Don't be so hasty to rule out Donald.
With Computers coming down in price and Artificial Intelligence programs steadily improving it should be perfectly possible to train an AI program with the decision making power needed to make CEO style decisions; Remember Chess has long had better computer players than human ones. And having the CEObot trained to adopt the personality, communication style and persona of a much loved and highly successful comic artiste means they would be something of a known and trusted quantity.
Indeed it would temporarily put us at the leading edge of technology, though in a few years everyone will be using CEObots.
The only slight problems are that if we wanted to hire an AI CEO the community would object to one that wasn't open source. And as a high profile organisation we wouldn't want to be using the same licensed CEObot as thousands of other organisations, especially if we had to pay a license fee to Disney.
Jonathan/WereSpielChequers
On 3/5/16 8:28 AM, Chris Sherlock wrote:
In it's decision making capacity, the Board should:
- Select, evaluate and (if necessary) remove the Executive Director;
Whilst I'm sure that C-level managers are up to the task, that's rather
abrogating the responsibility of the Board.
I think you are misunderstanding. The Board will meet to discuss and approve the recommendation of the C-level managers. In order to properly carry out the Board's supervisory duties, we can and should take advice from those who are best situated. We have not transferred the legal right and responsibility onto the C-level managers - we have indicated to them that we trust that they will make a reasonable recommendation.
If, contrary to all expectations, they came back with a recommendation for Donald Duck or Donald Trump or some other cartoon character, we'd obviously refuse their recommendation as would be our fiduciary duty.
--Jimbo
Le 09/03/16 16:00, WereSpielChequers a écrit :
Don't be so hasty to rule out Donald.
With Computers coming down in price and Artificial Intelligence programs steadily improving it should be perfectly possible to train an AI program with the decision making power needed to make CEO style decisions; Remember Chess has long had better computer players than human ones. And having the CEObot trained to adopt the personality, communication style and persona of a much loved and highly successful comic artiste means they would be something of a known and trusted quantity.
Indeed it would temporarily put us at the leading edge of technology, though in a few years everyone will be using CEObots.
The only slight problems are that if we wanted to hire an AI CEO the community would object to one that wasn't open source. And as a high profile organisation we wouldn't want to be using the same licensed CEObot as thousands of other organisations, especially if we had to pay a license fee to Disney.
I just realized Isaac Asimov might have been a great trustee for WMF. Sadly...
Florence
Jonathan/WereSpielChequers
On 3/5/16 8:28 AM, Chris Sherlock wrote:
In it's decision making capacity, the Board should:
- Select, evaluate and (if necessary) remove the Executive Director;
Whilst I'm sure that C-level managers are up to the task, that's rather
abrogating the responsibility of the Board.
I think you are misunderstanding. The Board will meet to discuss and approve the recommendation of the C-level managers. In order to properly carry out the Board's supervisory duties, we can and should take advice from those who are best situated. We have not transferred the legal right and responsibility onto the C-level managers - we have indicated to them that we trust that they will make a reasonable recommendation.
If, contrary to all expectations, they came back with a recommendation for Donald Duck or Donald Trump or some other cartoon character, we'd obviously refuse their recommendation as would be our fiduciary duty.
--Jimbo
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Florence,
He would have been, I'm sure, but I'm not sure what it costs to rent a flat in Terminus. I imagine the moving costs will be quite high.
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On 9 March 2016 at 15:28, Florence Devouard fdevouard@gmail.com wrote:
Le 09/03/16 16:00, WereSpielChequers a écrit :
Don't be so hasty to rule out Donald.
With Computers coming down in price and Artificial Intelligence programs steadily improving it should be perfectly possible to train an AI program with the decision making power needed to make CEO style decisions; Remember Chess has long had better computer players than human ones. And having the CEObot trained to adopt the personality, communication style and persona of a much loved and highly successful comic artiste means they would be something of a known and trusted quantity.
Indeed it would temporarily put us at the leading edge of technology, though in a few years everyone will be using CEObots.
The only slight problems are that if we wanted to hire an AI CEO the community would object to one that wasn't open source. And as a high profile organisation we wouldn't want to be using the same licensed CEObot as thousands of other organisations, especially if we had to pay a license fee to Disney.
I just realized Isaac Asimov might have been a great trustee for WMF. Sadly...
Florence
Jonathan/WereSpielChequers
On 3/5/16 8:28 AM, Chris Sherlock wrote:
In it's decision making capacity, the Board should:
- Select, evaluate and (if necessary) remove the Executive Director;
Whilst I'm sure that C-level managers are up to the task, that's rather
abrogating the responsibility of the Board.
I think you are misunderstanding. The Board will meet to discuss and approve the recommendation of the C-level managers. In order to properly carry out the Board's supervisory duties, we can and should take advice from those who are best situated. We have not transferred the legal right and responsibility onto the C-level managers - we have indicated to them that we trust that they will make a reasonable recommendation.
If, contrary to all expectations, they came back with a recommendation for Donald Duck or Donald Trump or some other cartoon character, we'd obviously refuse their recommendation as would be our fiduciary duty.
--Jimbo
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And another is the reigning world champion in Nomic... On Mar 9, 2016 11:19 AM, "Gordon Joly" gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
On 09/03/16 15:00, WereSpielChequers wrote:
With Computers coming down in price and Artificial Intelligence programs steadily improving
Yes, indeed. A machine beat a man at Go!
Gordo
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