• MudMan@fedia.io
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    2 days 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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      2 days 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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        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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          2 days ago

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

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            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