I Want AI, Too. Actual Intelligence!

[MineralMan]

Since I was in the hospital for a few days, I've returned home and have had to make appointments for various things. Everywhere, something they call AI is picking up the phone. Trouble is that its really Artificial Stupidity. It doesn't understand my voice prompts and ends up hanging up on me. Some times I've gotten it to connect with a human being, after which I got something done.

It's not an improvement over the old voice activated menu systems. It's far worse, because the AI helper has a very small vocabulary and grammar system. It will not do anything except deal with the limited number of options it presents. If it cant help you, it thanks you and hangs up. There's no option available on the voice menu to switch to a human representative in these new AI helper apps.

So, let's campaign for real AI. Actual Intelligence. We used to have that.