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I will put a talking persona on your website
- Obi- 3mo ago[dead]
- holistio 3mo agoCreepy.
- verdverm 3mo agoI saw a live demo of the same concept, but full-duplex, i.e. you talk like on a zoom call
- Obi- 3mo agoWe are right in the middle of implementing full duplex. What makes the lab useful for you?
- verdverm 3mo agoIt's not useful, it's dystopian and concerning. People are going to become addicted to it
- Obi- 3mo agoSo sorry
- Obi- 3mo agoPeople get addicted to a lot of stuff. Even then, the avatars are supposed to help reduce churn.
- verdverm 3mo agoFake "people" will likely increase churn. Have you seen polling numbers for Ai? Chat, especially fake video people, is likely to get heavily regulated. I'm pro ai, but I will reject anyone who tries to get me to use it and shame anyone who builds something like this.
- Obi- 3mo agoWhat polls? also, the churn thing is testable. If I demonstrated retention numbers would you be convinced ? In any event. Huge difference between synthetic people and embodied agents.
- verdverm 3mo agoAnti ai is all the rage right now, polls about that sentiment are easy to find when they aren't beamed into your eyes without your choosing
- Obi- 3mo agoGenuinely happy to be wrong if there's a number behind it, but "go look" isn't the number.
- verdverm 3mo agoIf you want to create a business around this, as it sounds, you should want to know how the general public feels about Ai and be paying attention to the regulatory developments. We are in a period of dramatic shift, leaders in the transition pay attention to all facets.
- Obi- 3mo agoYes, we have. Some of our friends are big players in the AI insurance space. I find that people are wary of AI in the abstract but become more diplomatic when it comes to tools that genuinely solve problems.
- holistio 3mo ago"hey, people get addicted to cocaine, too, what's your issue with my meth lab?"
- Obi- 3mo agoif you think personas are net destructive then make the case
- Obi- 3mo agoSo sorry
- ventana 3mo agoThe website has demo agents, including "Support persona" Anne, described as "calm and capable", and "Lead gen persona" Gabriel, who is "warm, sharp". I had a good laugh when I asked them both to tell me how to sort an array in Python, and they did indeed read the whole code, with a smile and intonations.
- Obi- 3mo agoLOL, glad it made you laugh. I had considered hardening the system prompt to allow only business-related queries.
- nosioptar 3mo agoI see any of these creepy motherfuckers on a business's page, I take my business elsewhere. As a consumer, if I need to contact you, I want a way to contact a human, not a magic 8 ball that destroys the environment and economy.
- Obi- 3mo agoWhen did technology become a magic 8-ball?
- nosioptar 3mo agoIts not "technology", its clankers. The answers given by a clanker are as reliable as a magic 8 ball.
- Obi- 3mo agoInasmuch as I remain unsure what to make of this, I think you might need to know that the answer is a deployment choice, not an inherent property of the tool. Our personas are good at performing hand-offs, but the moment they can't help, they can't.
- abstractspoon 3mo agoOver my dead body
- Obi- 3mo agoWhat makes you say that?