Sometimes, Silicon Valley Startup is released as a “ridiculous” mission that it is difficult to discern whether the startup is a real or satire.
The same is true for Mechanize, the founder and the startup, which is being sloped on X after X was announced.
Complaints include both the mission of the startup and the surprise of the respected research institute’s reputation. (The director of the Institute even posted on X.
Mechanize began with the post of X by Tamay Besiroglu, the founder of Thursday. Besiroglu is the goal of a new company is “overall automation of all work” and “overall automation of the economy.”
Does it mean that Mechanize is trying to replace all human workers with an AI agent bot? In essence, it is. Startups provide data, evaluation and digital environments to enable worker automation.
Besiroglu even calculated the market that can be designated by Mechanize by counting all the wages that humans pay. “The potential of the market is ridiculous here. US workers pay about $ 18 trillion every year. In the world, the number is about $ 60 trillion a year,” he wrote.
But Besiroglu clarified TechCrunch that “our immediate focus is actually focusing on white collar work rather than manual labor jobs that require robotics.”
The response to startups was often cruel. X user Anthony Aguirre said, “It’s a great respect for the founder’s work in EPOCH, but it’s sad to see this. The automation of most human labor is actually a huge prize of the company.
But the controversial part is not the mission of this startup. EPOCH, an AI Research Institute of Besiroglu, analyzes the economic impact of AI and generates a benchmark for AI performance. It was considered a fair way to confirm the performance of the SATA Frontier model manufacturer and others.
This is not the first time Epok has been in debate. In December, EPOCH said that Openai supported the creation of one of the AI benchmarks and the CHATGPT producer used it to release a new O3 model. Social media users thought that EPOCH should be more prepaid about the relationship.
When Besiroglu released Mechanize, X user Oliver Habryka replied: “Ah, this was literally not coming from you, but it looks like an approximately confirmation that EPOCH Research is directly supplied to the frontier.”
Besiroglu says that mechanize is supported by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, Patrick Collision, DwarkeSh Path, Jeff Dean, Sholto Douglas and Marcus Abramovitch. Friedman, Gross and Dean did not return TechCrunch’s request for opinion.
Marcus Abramovitch confirmed that he had invested. ABRAMOVITCH is a management partner of Crypto Hedge Fund Altx and is its own “effective altruist”.
He told Techcrunch that “the team invested because I thought more deeply about AI than I knew in many dimensions and I knew.
Is it good for humans?
Nevertheless, Besiroglu argues that performing all tasks to Naysayers will actually enrich humans and actually enrich humans through “explosive economic growth”. He points out the paper published on the subject.
“If you fully automate labor, you can create a vast abundance, much higher living standards, and today we can create new products and services that we can’t even imagine,” he said.
This can be true for those who own agents. In other words, if the employer pays the cost instead of developing it in -house (perhaps by another agent).
On the other hand, this optimistic outlook overlooks the basic facts. If human beings do not have a job, there is no income to buy everything that AI agents produce.
Nevertheless, Besiroglu says that such AI-AUTOTED WORLD’s human wages must actually increase because they are more valuable in a complementary role that AI cannot perform.
But the goal is that the agent performs all the tasks. He is not determined only by wages even in a scenario where wages can decrease when they ask about this. People generally receive imports from other sources such as rent, dividends and government welfare. ”
Perhaps we all make a living in stocks or real estate. If the AI agent pays the tax, there is always welfare.
Besiroglu vision and mission are clearly extreme, but the technical problem he wants to solve is legal. Economic abundance can be followed if there is a crew of an individual agent who will help each human worker to work more. And Besiroglu is undoubtedly at least one thing. It doesn’t work well after a year at the age of AI agent.
He pointed out that they are trying to complete the work independently as they require that they are incomprehensible and do not maintain information and require that they cannot execute the long -term plan without leaving the railroad.
But he is almost not alone in performing modifications. A huge company, such as Salesforce and Microsoft, is building an agent platform. The same is true for Openai. And agent startup: work expert (outbound sales, financial analysis); For those working on educational data. Others are studying agent prices.
In the meantime, Besiroglu wants to know. Mechanization is hired.
