Who’s the Boss?

What it's like to work with an intelligent employee with no job description and no boss?

About as much fun as you’d imagine.

When I was a kid, if you asked me what it would be like having a boss, I'd say, well, a boss yells at you and tells you what to do - you know, like SpiderMan's boss - the shouty guy with the grey hair.

But when you start working you realize that the most important thing your boss can do is help you understand the mission and objectives of the team, and how you fit into that. Your boss is the one who can best answer the question, "What is it that we're all here to do?"

It turns out that being an employee isn't about following your shouty boss's orders, it's about figuring out your role, how it relates to the roles of your team mates, and how do you help the team succeed in our common goals.

Now, when I look at how humans and AI can interact, it seems natural that we want the humans to be the boss, and the AI elements to be the Employees.

AI doesn't inherently know its role or your mission or how it fits in. The Achilles Heel of AI is self-awareness. That's not a problem though, as long as you're the boss. You’re the one who can answer the question “what is that we’re trying to do here?”

The question is, how is that actually going to work. Ultimately, that's the point of Artificial Frost.