This just sounds like CEOs not understanding how we leverage chat. Most of the best ideas are made in collaborative chat where people have the time to formulate their thoughts and be direct about ideas without the loudest person in the room drowning them out. Zoom meetings are 1/4 small talk and 1/2 bullshit with just enough work getting done to justify the wasted hour. In office meetings are even worse. I think many just miss the echo chamber of ass kissing and/or commiseration they get when employees are on prem.

There are open source LLMs that are comparable to chatgpt. In fact, one Google engineer was quoted as saying essentially “we’re getting beat by open source in the AI space”. Check out OpenAssistant and derivatives like huggingface.