An Alabama landline that keeps ringing

Haha, I’m on such another plane of technology these days, my initial reaction upon reading the headline was that there was some persistent seismic event near the border of Mississippi xD

Re: An Alabama landline that keeps ringing

#7

Post by charcircuit » Sun, May 04, 2025, 1:08 PM UTC

You could hook up one of the voice based LLMs to do this instead of the students.

Re: An Alabama landline that keeps ringing

#8

Post by Normal_gaussian » Sun, May 04, 2025, 1:11 PM UTC

charcircuit wrote: post #7

You could hook up one of the voice based LLMs to do this instead of the students.

The value, it would seem, comes from it being precisely not that.

Re: An Alabama landline that keeps ringing

#9

Post by trollbridge » Sun, May 04, 2025, 1:16 PM UTC

800-GOOG-411 was planned to do a similar thing; the difference is that was online for 3 years and unceremoniously shut down, versus this one which is still in operation 72 years later.

Re: An Alabama landline that keeps ringing

#10

Post by Etheryte » Sun, May 04, 2025, 1:18 PM UTC

trollbridge wrote: post #9

800-GOOG-411 was planned to do a similar thing; the difference is that was online for 3 years and unceremoniously shut down, versus this one which is still in operation 72 years later.

The true Google way, someone got a promotion and then the product dies.