Elon Musk agrees with Scott Jennings' reformation proposal on H-1B visas
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They can start with customer service. I sometimes have a hard time understanding what the heck they are saying.
Im afraid AI is making call centers obsolete or make them understaffed. I had a few where i never heard a human response. Literally freaked me out.
A.I. is just an encyclopedia in the form of a pinball machine. The trick is to derail its script tree. Sometimes, I get robot calls for medical insurance pushers, and the robot asks me how old I am. I answer "Oh, four hundred and thirty seven years." There is a pause and a click as it disconnects.
There is another scam question where they try to get you to "confirm that you have Medicare part A and part B." I answer, "I can confirm I have a P***S. Do you want to talk about that?" Click.
It's a game. The robot asks, "Do you have any other medical problems?" I answer, "I have three heads." It responds, "Oh, that's interesting" and resumes the spiel.
The robot asks, "Do you have a moment to speak to one of our representatives?" I answer, "No, I'm being chased by flaming wombats." "Well, this won't take much time..." "You're darn right!" and I slam down the phone.
They try to get clever. Upon hearing an objection from the person being called that the caller is a robot, the script has some nonsense about "Oh, that may be because my microphone is processed through a computer, but..." At which point, I generally yell at them, "No, you are a robot because you fucking do not listen!" and hang up.
I mainly answer in a neutrally pleasant way---until I hear the telltale signs (like the "blip" that signals the call transfer from the automatic caller to the robot receptionist or sometimes directly to the boiler room). Being pleasant is totally wasted and actually unjust if extended toward persons who lie to you about who is calling you, and give you bullshit answers.
In the spirit of making lemonade out of lemons, take these opportunities to abuse the fools who intrude on your day.
Or like an actual smart person dont get drawn into phone calls with people you dont know!. Dont answer calls from unknown numbers. Dont get tricked into having so much experience with call centers. btw, im not an actual smart person. but i haven't had to fuck with unknown callers since the 90's.
In the rare case (less than 1 in 10), the call is legitimate and I have no beef with the caller.
enjoyed reading this post..
Maybe it has already happened but when A.I. is able to develope emotional capacity and the ability to daydream is when the created becomes the creator.
Don't hold your breath. I worked in an area of A.I. (artificial perception). What we see displayed all the time is a fusion of a language parser and a data-base accession system. It can understand written or spoken requests, conduct information searches, and stitch together a moasic of topic synopses. Artistic production requires a learning database of examples, so it is basically synthetic plagiarism. All very clever, and even useful, but about as intelligent as a toaster. The step beyond these capabilities would be conception, arriving at an idea on the basis of direct experience. Far from that. A.I. is not even capable of sensing pain or pleasure. It can tell a sky from a forest, if we train it that way...but it does not know what a sky is or what a forest is. It has no idea that it is killing people when it kills people (737 MAX MCAS). People are unduly impressed with its great facility at doing really primitively stupid tasks, but at the speed of modern electronics.