Recently, a company called Artisan of AI StartupsexistSilicon ValleyHeartland San Francisco has put in a lot ofadvertiseIts tagline was simple and crude - "Stop employing human beings" - and sparked widespread controversy.
According to 1AI, Artisan, a company backed by startup gas pedal Y Combinator that sells customer service and sales workflow software, calls its software products "AI Employees"or "Artisan".
SFGate, a local San Francisco media outlet, reports that the billboards, which are scattered throughout the city, carry slogans such as "Artisan won't complain about work-life balance," "Artisan's Zoom camera will never 'break today'" and "Hire Artisan, not humans. and "Hire Artisan, not humans," among other slogans.It proclaims that "the age of the AI employee has arrived".
Artisan CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack defended the ad's tagline in an interview with SFGate, saying, "These ads are somewhat anti-utopian, but so is AI. The world is changing." He added that they wanted to catch people's attention in this striking way.
It is reported that,Artisan's main product is an AI "sales agent" called Ava, which is said to be able to automatically find and contact potential customers.The company claims that the product "requires no human intervention" and costs less than hiring a human. The company claims that the product "requires no human intervention" and costs less than hiring a human 96%. However, these claims need to be taken with a grain of salt given the current level of development of AI technology.