That's great, you're not everyone though, and you're not fielding everyone's calls either.

I'm in Healthcare. A massive chunk of our calls are simply "you have an order expected on (date), and shipping to (your address), is this information correct? Yes? Awesome, kthxbye".

That's it. By utilizing automatic dialers for that kind of thing we're freeing up a ton of time for the real people to do more difficult hands on customer service.

I'm gonna say it, you're the same person my great grandfather was, complaining about ATMs because they were over complicated.

Absolutely, 100%. We aren't just plugging in an LLM and letting it handle calls willy nilly. We're telling it like a robot exactly what to do, and the LLM only comes into play when it's trying to interpret the intent of the person on the phone within the given conversation they're having.

So for instance as we develop this for our end users, we're building out functionality in pieces. For each piece where we know we can't do that (yet), we "escalate" the call to the real person at the call center for them to handle. As we develop more these escalations get fewer, however there are many instances that will always escalate. For instance if the user says "let me speak to a person" or something to that effect, we'll escalate right away.

For things the LLM can actually do against that users data, those are hard coded actions we control, it didn't come up with them. It didn't decide to do them, we do. It isn't skynet and it isn't close either.

The LLM's actual functional use is quite limited to just understanding the intent of the user's speech, that's all. That's how it's being used all over (to great results).

No need, it's the journalist and editor who need to clarify things.

I'm actually working on an LLM "AI" augmented call center application right now, so I've got a bit of experience in this.

Before anyone starts doomsaying, keep in mind that when you narrow the goal and focus of the machine learning model, it gets exponentially better at the job. Way better at the job than people.

ChatGPT on its own is a massive scope, and that flexibility means it's going to do the bad things we know it too do. That's why chatgpt sucks.

But build a LLM focused to managing a call center that handles just one topic. That's what's going on, virtually everywhere right now. This article gets that "based on chat gpt" in for clicks and fear mongering.

Oh that's easy, my younger self just gets an ass whoopin'. I can take him, he's a big coward.

My highschool days. Wouldn't change a thing either, except I wouldn't start smoking cigarettes.

Last hint, this is the one Spade film with him as the lead that virtually everyone loves.

I think the deeper generational thing is in the idea that anything "just works". Like I'm a programmer, right, so I know shortcuts. Ctrl+S saves the file, simple right?

Me when I want to save a file: Ctrl+SSSS. Why? Because I don't trust it "just works". Same reason I don't trust auto save. Same reason I am stunned every time I tell windows to diagnose and fix the network problem and then it actually does.

I grew up in a time where you couldn't trust any of that shit.

Ego = the self from its own perspective. Makes complete sense actually. But do they call third person games "superego games"?

Play harder difficulties?

Nah there's no wizardry here. The game itself is actually very simple in terms of processing. You only see maybe a dozen enemies at once, if that, ever, and whenever you do its in a locked arena area. A tiny arena even.

As FPS games go, Doom is wildly simplistic, which makes it that much more impressive that it's as fun and repayable as it is. I personally thought the narrative actually managed to carry a lot of that weight (i loved the story) but it was also the gameplay itself - they did a superb job making the player actually learn the guns and why you'd use each one, rather than just letting them have a favorite.

Don't get me wrong though, I don't mean to belittle them. Doom is a chefs egg. Every cook can make an egg, but making a perfect egg every time is something that takes the mastery of a chef. Id is very much the chef in the analogy.

Twitter was purchased at 44 billion in late 2022. It did not cost Twitter 44 billion to run for the years prior. That is very much profit for those shareholders considering especially that 44 billion was a significant percentage higher than the value at the time. It cost less than half a billion to keep Twitter's lights on every quarter. They started in 2006. So assuming from the get go it cost half a billion a quarter (and you know it didn't right?) ... that's 32 billion to run Twitter the years it was open. And they sold for 44 billion, meaning 12 billion in profit in a windfall.

Still following?

And for a social media company's primary shareholders, selling that company is the ultimate goal and only way to realize true profits. That's the social media scam. Zuckerberg right? You think he wants to run Facebook? He has to, he's an employee at this rate. Well compensated sure but he doesn't pull the strings.

What's hilarious is Elon didn't understand all that. He bought Twitter for cash money. There is no way on God's green earth he manages to turn a profit with it because no social media company has been able to either - not with an entire board and public stock, so certainly not with a private company either. All the profit mechanisms they had before were contingent on the stock market, on speculation. That's all gone now. It's private. There is no public stock price to affect.

He didn't create it. Huffman was always a tag along. He is happy to take credit for all the things he didn't do.

https://imgur.com/7pfAmVV.jpg

Aaron Swartz' story gets more and more sad with every passing year.

Twitter made 44 billion dollars. Pretty sure it didn't cost that much to run. Ergo Twitter made money.

That's the big hurdle. That's the big catch. Social media companies are contingent on speculation to drive profits. Facebook isn't worth what it is without speculative buying in the markets. Twitter, same story. That's where reddit is at, they want a payday and to move on. The funny thing is this same reasoning exposes just how awful a businessman Elon Musk is. Twitter is going to literally drive him from the top ten richest in the world list all on its own. Give it time.

The funnier thing is Steve Huffman is such a loser he is looking up to Elon in this past week. The guy wants so desperately to be able to buy popularity like Elon did.

David Spade...

TIL Voat shut down. Shocker.

Swing and a miss.

I'll give you a more direct hint about the context: "You do" implies someone said that I [verb] something. But I say that in response to someone calling me [an adjective], which doesn't make sense.

I can respect the stance, kind of. Can I offer an alternative perspective on that though?

For starters, Oligarchs don't always win. That's defeatism, don't do that - for your own good.

But the main thing I'm pointing out is that there's a particularly stinky arrogance in the creation of a hypothetical "little guy helped by my words", and I know it because when I honestly ask myself why I contributed to reddit, it's for me, not others. I wrote because I enjoyed it. Both quality and quantity. And while many people may have been helped by my words in one way or another and I'm happy for them, I didn't honestly write any of it for them. I did it for me. And it was me who didn't want to see the content go off into the nether, I was the hold-up. In my view, that's again - a particularly stinky kind of arrogance. One I recognized in myself and took action to overcome. Your comment reminded me of it is all.

You do!

[in response to my wife calling me stupid]

I mean why couldn't there be a dedicated service that indexes everything? Whoever makes it and gets it working in a user friendly manner is going to have a significant level of control on the content that is shown in the results. If you don't want it, it isn't indexed. I don't have to stretch the imagination to think of parties that have good reason to want to be first to do that across Activity Pub as a whole. Mastodon is already a big frontrunner in that regard.