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manuallybreathing , to Technology in Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO

I will not be shedding a tear if people no longer have to work in such a soul crushing menial job. Fuck around and findout what happens millions of people lose their jobs all at once.

but anyway this is just some more ai hype stock manipulation shit.

obsolete , to Technology in Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO
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It's a soul destroying job anyway.

Treczoks , to Technology in Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO

First of all, it will make cold calling way, way worse. Time to ramp up restrictions, fines and other penalties for that kind of stuff.

When it comes to tech support call centers, some may actually improve. Not because the technology is so superior, but just because the current support simply sucks, and any change would be an improvement. And then they must actually work, i.e. solve the customers problems. On top of that, there is that case where an AI call center made expensive promises (IIRC if promised a car for $1 or something like that), and the judge made the company uphold this deal.

FiniteBanjo , to Technology in Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO

If by "Decimate" you mean "Reduce by a tenth" then it's already happened.

Hadriscus ,

Oh, I thought it meant "divided by ten"?

ours ,

It refers to a punishment for bad performance in ancient Roman armies: 1 in ten soldiers was killed.

palordrolap , to Technology in Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO

There are already stories about companies being sued because their AI gave advice that caused the customer to act in a manner detrimental to themselves. (Something about 'plane flight refunds being available if I remember correctly).

Then when they contacted the company to complain (perhaps get the promised refund), they were told that there was no such policy at their company. The customer had screenshots. The AI had wholesale hallucinated a policy.

We all know how this is going to go. AI left, right and centre until it costs companies more in AI hallucination lawsuits than it does to employ people to do it.

And all the while they'll be bribing lobbying government representatives to make AI hallucination lawsuits not a thing. Or less of a thing.

baatliwala , to Technology in Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO

Extremely ironical that they used an AI generated pie chart in the article that couldn't even distinguish the colours between choices

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/67ac9459-8957-4d15-ad81-b1e271a633c4.jpeg

Dark_Arc ,
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As a colorblind person ... this is a teachable moment for what we go through with all kinds of charts and video games lol

(and yes, it's this bad, and yes it happens A LOT)

ChicoSuave , to Technology in Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO

Wait until generative AI tells a customer to touch electricity.

TheRaven ,
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Or that they can buy the plane ticket first, then apply for the grievance discount later…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/02/18/air-canada-airline-chatbot-ruling/

SpaceNoodle ,

An Air Canada spokesperson said in a statement to The Washington Post that the airline will comply with the tribunal’s decision.

The most shocking part

Chrobin ,

Pretty sure a court told them to.

TheRaven , to Technology in Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO
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Call centres exist because people can’t get the help they need by searching. Take away call centres, and you’re just making it more difficult for customers.

warmaster , to Technology in IBM says their latest AI-enhanced storage platform can identify ransomware in under a minute

IBM Watson AI

Warning, User.
Ransomware has been detected!

Choose corrective action: Delete data or pay the scammer?

bonnetbee , to Technology in Over 170 million fake reviews were removed from Maps and Search thanks to Google's new algorithm

I opened a google account and wrote two genuine reviews. Both were rejected automatically. I pressed a button to let them check again, they were again rejected.

I deleted my account again and remembered why I deleted my first account a few years ago. Google sucks, they can't controll their own algorythms, they are a faceless mega corp that harvests data like crazy. Everyones life would be better, if google vanished from the face of earth right now.

Shdwdrgn , to Technology in Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses

All it takes is one big company like Amazon changing their services to IPv6-only and most of the world would be converted over in a month or two... but now I guess we know the reason WHY Amazon doesn't push such a policy.

pirrrrrrrr ,

A massive swathe of current gen devices don't even support it.

It won't be a month.

Microsoft announce changes much smaller than that 4 years out and still have to give extensions.

Shdwdrgn ,

Seriously? How can any device call themselves current gen and not support something as basic as this? That's just embarrassing.

HarkMahlberg , to Technology in Police departments are using AI to review bodycam footage, and police unions are not happy about it
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Let's not confuse ourselves here. The opposite of one evil is not necessarily a good. Police reviewing their own footage, investigating themselves: bad. Unreliable AI beholden to corporate interests and shareholders: also bad.

pearsaltchocolatebar ,

It's fine to not understand what "AI" is and how it works, but you should avoid making statements that highlight that lack of understanding.

tabular ,
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If you feel one's knowledge is lacking then explaining it may convince them, or others reading your post.

lolcatnip ,

Speaking of a broad category of useful technologies as inherently bad is a dead giveaway that someone doesn't know what they're talking about.

originalucifer , to Technology in Police departments are using AI to review bodycam footage, and police unions are not happy about it
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dont hey always tell us

'you have nothing to worry about if you have nothing to hide'

uh huh... hows that feel now, government employee?

BearOfaTime ,

Yep.

Ya 'all like surveillance so much, let's put all government employees under a camera all the time. Of all the places I find cameras offensive, that one not so much.

mndrl ,

I sure hope you get your daily dosis of enjoying people's misery watching the substitute teacher crying in the teacher's lounge.

lolcatnip ,

Cameras in a teacher's lounge would be ridiculous but, in principle, cameras in classrooms make a lot of sense. Teachers are public officials who exercise power over others, and as such they need to be accountable for their actions. Cameras only seem mean because teachers are treated so badly in other ways.

mndrl ,

Sure thing, buddy. They exert such power that they can barely make teens stay put for dice minutes without fucking around with their phones. So much power.

lolcatnip ,

You don't know what power is.

BeautifulMind , to Technology in Elon Musk says Tesla workers will be sleeping on the factory floor when new $25,000 EV goes into production next year
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Welp. It's time for Tesla workers to unionize, and hard

gravitas_deficiency , to Technology in Nvidia Blackwell RTX 5000 GPUs may debut earlier than expected

Hope they either suck less or are less expensive than the 4000 series. Both would be great, but that for sure won’t happen

long_chicken_boat ,

I'm sure they won't be any cheaper. Nvidia can be as greedy as they want given the low competition they have.

aluminium ,

And with the 4000 Series it worked so damn well. 4090s sold like sliced bread

gravitas_deficiency ,

It’s just frustrating that mining has made it effectively impossible to buy a higher end video card at anything even approaching a reasonable price.

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