Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer) on Nostr: There are some narrow and very specific uses for AI. Pretending to be a human to do ...
There are some narrow and very specific uses for AI. Pretending to be a human to do customer support is not one of them. I spent 20 minutes hopelessly confusing a AI customer support agent until it connected me to a human and they solved my problem in 15 secs. Don't tell 10 year old me this, but the future actually sucks.
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