The rise of the machine

[JimC]

I for one welcome our new brain implant overlords...

[Brian Peacock]

Those antivaxxers where all hot and bothered about 5G, microchips and mind control during the pandemic, but if Elon literally wants to put a chip in your head, we'll, that's probably ok right?

[macdoc]

They'd jump all over it if they were also paralysed from the neck down. Distain of science passes quickly when they really need a solution themselves.

Actually ran into a double act ranting climate change denier AND obstreperous antin-vaxxer ....and he says Canadian ...

[JimC]

Implants to combat paralysis (or at least allow the ability to control external machinery) certainly make sense, but I gather that Musk and others see them as a technological adjunct for healthy people. Not so sure about that...

[Brian Peacock]

What's the point of making N-times more money than you could ever spend in a 100 lifetimes, and then only living once for about 100 years tops? Elon's probably the kind of guy to want to become an autonomous silicon mind in a box with ai enhancements to cheat death and stay wealthy, or a never-ending distributed consciousness with human rights and 50,000 transformer robot bodies with laser eyes and shit.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Interesting use of AI to waste phone scammers' time. Doesn't seem like the present version is going to be particularly effective but any other approach to the same idea would create privacy violations.

'O2's AI granny knits tall tales to waste scam callers' time'

Watch out, scammers. O2 has created a new weapon in the fight against fraud: an AI granny that will keep you talking until you get bored and give up.

O2, the mobile operator arm of Brit telecoms giant Virgin Media (VMO2), says it has built the human-like AI to answer calls from fraudsters in real time, keeping them busy on the phone and wasting their time by pretending to be a potential vulnerable target.

"Daisy" is claimed to be indistinguishable from a real person, fooling scammers into thinking they've found perfect prey thanks to its ability to engage in "human-like" rambling chat, the biz claims.

For several weeks in the run-up to International Fraud Awareness Week (November 17–23), the AI has already frustrated scam callers with meandering stories about her family and talked at length about her passion for knitting, according to O2.

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Does Daisy step in if an incoming call to a user on its network comes from a number suspected to be that of a scam operator?

Sadly, it isn't quite that sophisticated. The AI has its own dedicated number, which the anti-fraud team managed to infiltrate into contact lists used by scammers to target Brits, an O2 spokesperson told us.

[Sean Hayden]

—that’s pretty good

[Brian Peacock]

Not to mention the associated energy requirements of scaling.

[pErvinalia]

We're getting closer to sexbots!

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1B1j3VzUi3/

[Joe]

We're getting closer to sexbots!

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1B1j3VzUi3/

It's a Barbiebot!

[JimC]

We'll know they're approaching the human condition when one says "Sorry, not tonight, I've got a headache..."