From time to time, a Silicon Valley startup is launched with such a “absurdly” mission described that it is difficult to discern whether the start is real or only satire.
This is the case of Mechaniize, a startup whose founder-and the research organization for non-profit that founded called Epoch-see infilrated on X after having announced it.
The complaints include both the startup mission, and the implication that slows down the reputation of its respected research institute. (A director of the Research Institute even published on X, “Yay just what I wanted for my birthday: a communications crisis”.
Mechaniize was launched on Thursday through an X post by its founder, the famous researcher from Ai Tamay Beneroglu. The target of the startup, Besioglu wrote, is “full automation of all work” and “full automation of the economy”.
This means that Meccanizza is working to replace every human worker with a Bot from the agent Ai? Essentially, yes. The start wishes to provide data, assessments and digital environments to make workers’ automation possible.
Besioglu has even calculated the total addresable market of mechanizing by aggregating all the wages that humans are currently paid. “The market potential here is absurdly large: workers in the United States are paid about $ 18 trillions per year in aggregate. For the whole world, the number is larger than three times, about $ 60 trillion per year”, he wrote.
Besioglu, however, clarified to Techcrunch that “our immediate focus is actually at the work of white collars” rather than the manual work works that would require robotics.
The response to start -up was often brutal. As the user X Anthony Aguirre replied, “enormous respect for the work of the founders in the era, but sad in seeing it. The automation of most human work is really a giant prize for companies, which is why many of the largest companies on the earth are already pursuing it. I think it will be a huge loss for most humans.”
But the controversial part is not only the mission of this startup. The research institute of Besioglu, Epoch, analyzes the economic impact of the AI and produces reference parameters for the performance of the AI. It was believed that it was an impartial way to verify the requests for performance of the producers of SATA border models and others.
This is not the first time that Epoch is in difficulty. In December, Epoch revealed that Openai supported the creation of one of its benchmarks AI, that the chatgpt manufacturer has therefore used to reveal its new O3 model. Social media users heard that Epoch should have been more in advance on the relationship.
When Besioglu announced Meccanizza, x User Oliver Habryka replied: “Alas, it seems an approximate confirmation that the search for the period was feeding directly in the border skills work, even if I hoped that it did not literally come to you”.
Besioglu says that Mechiocize is supported by a Who’s Who: Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, Patrick Collison, Dwarkesh Patel, Jeff Dean, Shoglian Douglas and Marcus Abramovitch. Friedman, Gross and Dean did not return Techcrunch’s commentary request.
Marcus Abramovitch confirmed that he had invested. Abramovitch is a Crypto Hedge Fund ALTX and self -rescued “Effective” AutoDexcribed Partner.
He told Techcrunch that he hit because “the team is exceptional in many sizes and has thought more deeply for anyone else’s IA.”
Also good for humans?
However, Besioglu claims to opponents that having agents who do all the work will actually enrich humans, do not impoverish them, through “explosive economic growth”. Indicates an article that he published on the subject.
“Automating the work completely could generate wide abundance, much higher standard of living and new goods and services that we cannot even imagine today,” he told Techcrunch.
This could be true for anyone who owns agents. That is, if the employers pay for them instead of developing them internally (presumably, from other agents?).
On the other hand, this optimistic perspective overlooks a fundamental fact: if humans do not have a job, they will not have the revenue to buy all the things that Ai Ai agents are producing.
However, Besioglu says that human wages in such a automatic world should actually increase because these workers are “more precious in the complementary roles that IA cannot carry out”.
But remember, the goal is that agents do all the job. When asked, he explained, “even in the scenarios in which wages could decrease, economic well -being is not determined exclusively from wages. People generally receive income from other sources, such as rentals, dividends and government well -being”.
So maybe we all earn to live from shares or immobile. Otherwise, there is always well -being: if artificial intelligence agents pay taxes.
Although Besioglu’s vision and mission are clearly extreme, the technical problem he is trying to solve is legitimate. If every human worker has a personal crew of agents who help them produce more work, he could follow economic abundance. And Besioglu is unquestionably on at least one thing: one year at the age of artificial intelligence agents, they don’t work very well.
Note that they are unreliable, do not retain information, fight to complete the activities in an independent way as required, “and cannot perform long -term plans without leaving the rails”.
However, it is certainly not just to work on solutions. Giant companies such as Salesforce and Microsoft are building agent platforms. Openi is also. And the startups of the agents abound: from specialist tasks (outgoing sales, financial analysis); to those who work on training data. Others are working on the economy of the prices of the agents.
In the meantime, Besioglu wants you to know: Meccanizza is taking on.
