Hear an AI Chatbot, Masquerading as a Clueless Grandmother, Waste the Time of an Internet Scam Artist

And now for a good use of AI. The UK-based tele­com com­pa­ny O2 has devel­oped a chat­bot (“named Daisy”) that per­forms a noble task. Imper­son­at­ing an elder­ly grand­moth­er, the chat­bot engages with inter­net fraud­sters and then sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly frus­trates them and wastes their time. As part of a demo, notes The Guardian, Daisy wast­ed a series of fraud­sters’ time for up to 40 min­utes each–“when they could oth­er­wise have been scam­ming real peo­ple.” The AI sys­tem was trained on real scam calls–according to Vir­gin Media O2’s mar­ket­ing direc­tor, Simon Valcarcel–so it “knows exact­ly the tac­tics to look out for, exact­ly the type of infor­ma­tion to give to keep the scam­mers online and waste time.” If you have three min­utes to spare, you can lis­ten to Daisy clown a scam artist above.

Relat­ed Con­tent 

Noam Chom­sky on Chat­G­PT: It’s “Basi­cal­ly High-Tech Pla­gia­rism” and “a Way of Avoid­ing Learn­ing”

Stephen Fry Reads Nick Cave’s Stir­ring Let­ter About Chat­G­PT and Human Cre­ativ­i­ty: “We Are Fight­ing for the Very Soul of the World”

Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Pre­dict­ed the Rise of Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence & the Exis­ten­tial Ques­tions We Would Need to Answer (1978)

Fritz Lang First Depict­ed Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence on Film in Metrop­o­lis (1927), and It Fright­ened Peo­ple Even Then