RedPhantom posted at 6:16 PM Tue, 3 June 2025 - #4496755

keppel posted at 9:27 PM Mon, 2 June 2025 - #4496742

I'm longing for the day that AI gets rolled out to consumer help call centers.  Then I can finally get to speak to a call taker that I can understand.

My mom and I just dealt with an AI when we called customer service today. It went very smoothly. It understood my mom's confused questions. And no accent we couldn't understand.

Think, Pooh, think! The accent was because greedy CEOs offshored their CS jobs to people in not-native speaker countries. Now the same greedy CEOs pay a pittance to the AI companies to replace the offshored people. You may think it's wonderful, but it's a trap. Guess what, Red Phantom? Day's gonna come that whatever CEO pays you or members of your family or whatever won't need you or any of them, either. Which brings us back to GGreen's question. "If AI eliminates all of the jobs what will everyone do?" It's a very good question.