You could hook up one of the voice based LLMs to do this instead of the students.
Problem with voice based LLMs is that they don't know when it's their turn to talk.
An Alabama landline that keeps ringing
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#12What a heartbreaking way to end that article... but, what a way to make the message stick.
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#13You could hook up one of the voice based LLMs to do this instead of the students.
The point of it all is the human connection - not the answers.
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#14You 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.
Being precisely not a mobile app. I am saying that they can expose this functionality through the phone system like they are currently doing.
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#15how far is the deep learning stack close to replacing them?
By definition, it will never replace "them."
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
The point of it all is the human connection - not the answers.
The AI can provide both the human connection and the answers.
It is a severe reach to say that AI can provide human connection. At best, it can provide the illusion, for some. And for those people, I'm not going to say that that's not valuable or legitimate for them. But it's pushing it one step too far to imply that that's a good idea for everyone.
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#18This is such a lovely read! I might even call the line later today.
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#19Somewhere someone is probably still working as an elevator operator too. Like when I was a kid I had a job shoveling coal into a boiler. And someone is still manufacturing buggy whips. The future is unevenly distributed. Call Bunny Watson and ask her, she'll confirm.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
The point of it all is the human connection - not the answers.
The AI can provide both the human connection and the answers.
It cannot because it is not human. It can emulate the experience but it will never be genuine. Generally, if a caller ever became aware that it wasn't truly a person on the other end it would lessen the interaction. Whether that is justified or not is debatable, but it is nonetheless the case and thus the end result is not the same.