This has been a darn good week for robots. Elon Musk’s new pet project of creating a lifelike robot that will be able to work on a Tesla assembly line is getting closer and closer to reality, and now something even more futuristically unbelievable; a virtual human, aka a robot, has been named CEO of a Chinese mobile game company called NetDragon Websoft.
Ms. Tang Yu moved into the big office on August 26th, and unlike every other CEO on the planet, she won’t have to take weekends off, waste time going to HR meetings, or demand any ridiculous perks like a car allowance, stock options, or free use of a company plane.
The company released a statement saying Tang You will support decision-making with daily operations, and it looks like she’ll be overseeing the risk-management system. Her AI talents will also be helpful as a real-time data center and analytics tool for the board of directors compromised of living, breathing human beings.
If you think a robot in the C-suite is a gimmick or anomaly, don’t say it to the founder of NetDragon, Dr. Dejian Liu.
“We believe AI is the future of corporate management, and our appointment of Ms. Tang Yu represents our commitment to truly embrace the use of AI to transform the way we operate our business and ultimately drive our future strategic growth,
“Looking forward, we will continue to expand on our algorithms behind Tang Yu to build an open, interactive and highly transparent management model as we gradually transform to a metaverse-based working community, which will enable us to attract a much broader base of talents worldwide and put us in a position to achieve bigger goals.”
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