• MudMan@fedia.io
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    23 hours ago

    Well, there you go. We looped all the way back around to inventing dial-up modems, just thousands of times less efficient.

    Nice.

    For the record, this can all be avoided by having a website with online reservations your overengineered AI agent can use instead. Or even by understanding the disclosure that they’re talking to an AI and switching to making the reservation online at that point, if you’re fixated on annoying a human employee with a robocall for some reason. It’s one less point of failure and way more efficient and effective than this.

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      22 hours ago

      You have to design and host a website somewhere though, whereas you only need to register a number in a listing.

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        17 hours ago

        But what if my human is late or my customers are disabled?

        If you spent time giving your employees instructions, you did half the design work for a web form.

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          14 hours ago

          I guess I’m not quite following, aren’t these also simple but dynamic tasks suited to an AI?

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            9 hours ago

            How is it suited to AI?

            Would you rather pay for a limited, energy inefficient and less accessible thing or a real human that can adapt and gain skills, be mentored?

            I don’t know why there’s a question here

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              (Glad we’re treating each other with mutual respect)

              Would you rather pay for a limited in depth, energy inefficient (food/shelter/fossil-fuel consuming) and less accessible (needs to sleep, has an outside life) human, or an AI that can adapt and gain skills with a few thousand training cycles.

              I dont buy the energy argument. I dont buy the skills argument. I do buy the argument that humans shouldn’t be second to automatons and deserve to be nurtured, but only on ethical grounds.