Hear an AI Chatbot, Masquerading as a Clueless Grandmother, Waste the Time of an Web Rip-off Artist

And now for a great use of AI. The UK-based tele­com com­pa­ny O2 has devel­oped a chat­bot (“named Daisy”) that per­varieties a noble process. Imper­son­at­ing an elder­ly grand­moth­er, the chat­bot engages with inter­web fraud­sters after which sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly frus­trates them and wastes their time. As a part of a demo, notes The Guardian, Daisy wast­ed a sequence of fraud­sters’ time for as much as 40 min­utes every–“once they might oth­er­sensible have been rip-off­ming actual peo­ple.” The AI sys­tem was educated on actual rip-off calls–in accordance with Vir­gin Media O2’s mar­ket­ing direc­tor, Simon Valcarcel–so it “is aware of precise­ly the tac­tics to look out for, precise­ly the kind of infor­ma­tion to present to maintain the rip-off­mers on-line and waste time.” When you’ve got three min­utes to spare, you’ll be able to lis­ten to Daisy clown a rip-off artist above.

Relat­ed Con­tent 

Noam Chom­sky on Chat­G­PT: It’s “Basi­cal­ly Excessive-Tech Pla­gia­rism” and “a Means of Keep away from­ing Be taught­ing”

Stephen Fry Reads Nick Cave’s Stir­ring Let­ter About Chat­G­PT and Human Cre­ativ­i­ty: “We Are Battle­ing for the Very Soul of the World”

Sci-Fi Author Arthur C. Clarke Pre­dict­ed the Rise of Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence & the Exis­ten­tial Ques­tions We Would Have to Reply (1978)

Fritz Lang First Depict­ed Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence on Movie in Metrop­o­lis (1927), and It Fright­ened Peo­ple Even Then