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amelius

Step 1: Let humans work like robots.

Step 2: Develop AI to automate the work using data generated in step 1.

Step 3: Convince investors that your AI is close to finished. Use the money to actually build a working version.

Step 4: Fire all the humans.

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Step 3 seems like two steps, the first of which has happened many times and the second of which has never happened.

Step 3.5: IPO and exit before investors discover that step 4 is impossible.

Reminds me of a joke:

There is a factory at the edge of town which employs one human and one dog. The human's job is to feed the dog. The dog's job is to keep the human away from the machines.

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