It’s okay: rrraz! This much! Life is over! The internet was shut down! At such moments I literally feel lost in space.
And today the world is such that anything can happen as long as you are offline. Actually everything. Therefore, there is no need to hesitate, but you need to urgently call the provider, because time is not just the price of gold, but already the price of British diamonds from the royal crown.
And here comes a robot that responds to my happiness with memes. And this broken record begins: How happy we are; To wait; they will answer you; or maybe you can tell me what happened; In tone mode, simply press the numbers below.
And then it gets worse. The robot does not understand anything, like a comedy grandmother in a Soviet movie.
– I can’t understand what you’re saying. Repeat.
I almost shout:
– No Internet.
Maybe the world is already burning. And I sit there, I don’t know anything. I’m talking to a robot.
– Repeat your problem again.
And at that moment, what you want to say most is: “You can die!” – disconnected.
How did robots designed to make our lives easier make our lives harder? Worse, they themselves became a source of anger. Today, according to the statistics of the Public Opinion Foundation, 70 percent of Russians are worried, this is a record figure. And then there are the robot assistants with their soothing music that is just infuriating. “You are 25th in line, waiting time is 30 minutes. “Your call is very important to us.”
But everything was designed completely differently. In the ideal world of 20th century science fiction, robots were invented to help humans. And the robots that damaged and destroyed everything around them definitely died at the end of the movie. This was the great battle of good and evil. But in the end, neither evil nor good won.
Fake won. Swear.
Empty voice. “Wait for an answer.”
It used to be like this: You take a long time to call someone, you yell at them. They also shout in response. Everyone is shouting at each other. And everyone understands what happened.
Now you can call immediately. And then – waiting.
It is clear that the first thing the Russian man did was look for an opportunity to fool the robot. This is our strength. The simplest thing is to constantly say: “Contact the operator.” It works but not always. Because the robot, no worse than a suspicious husband or wife, begins to ask: why? As a result, the chatbot spends more time switching me to an operator.
But there are plenty of ideas on the internet on how to get around these annoying automated assistants. For example, you can ask him: “How to turn off the voice assistant?” This is a command written in the program, so the robot has a chance to “understand” you and switch you to a real operator.
Another option is to ask questions that may confuse the robot. Ask about the half-life of sodium, for example. Well, or – in a fashionable trend – ask if and how often he thinks about the Roman Empire.
It is clear that life will not return. Artificial intelligence will be trained; It will not only give answers about the Roman Empire, but also name the years in the life of the Caesars. I assume the AI will be trained so much that it will solve problems really fast. After all, recently one of the banks presented a truly excellent example: a robot “talks” to fraudsters and does not give them the opportunity to deceive the client.
And if I were writing a futuristic story, I would come up with the idea that there would be a separate, very expensive, super exclusive, luxury service in the future: a human operator would answer the call. He will pick up the phone immediately. Say something very clear. Maybe it will burr.
It will now look like a handmade bag or shoe. Or hand embroidery on clothing, which is much more expensive than machine stamping.
Robots will undoubtedly defeat us. But they won’t win.
The author expresses his personal opinion, which may not coincide with the position of the editors.