“I am more excited to figure out how we can charge people a lot of money for a really great automated software engineer or other kind of agent than I am making some number of dimes with an advertising-based model.”
Some people will argue this isn’t replacing humans, just creating additional jobs for AI, and the human ones are safe. Somehow, I doubt it.
Also, Meta & Google are hardly making ‘dimes’ from selling advertising.
That’s even one of the few jobs LLMs can do competently. It’s basically correlating a bunch of information compiled by someone else and saying some nice platitudes about it to appease the shareholders. Once in a while a decision is needed, when there’s no consensus coming from “below” but I doubt a good LLM (or even a fair coin throw) would be worse than the average CEO at it.