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…