[This is what the fuss over AI is all about? What will they come up with next? An AI Uncle to tell off-color jokes? An AI AI dog that can sniff out clickbait? Let’s sic this lady on the guy who keeps calling about extending the warranty on my car! The mind reels at the possibilities… SB SM]
By Melissa Mahtani
Updated on: November 26, 2024 / 9:19 AM EST / CBS News
Do not try to help Daisy set up her printer—she is engineered to frustrate you. Daisy is a new British AI granny released earlier this month by UK-based phone company Virgin Media O2, and her job is to waste phone scammers’ time. In one instance, she kept them on the line for 40 minutes.
How she works: Fraudsters frequently target the elderly for scams, so the company attempted to create the perfect victim. Daisy is simply an AI chatbot with a grandma voice, trained on hours of recorded conversations with one of her creator’s real-life grandmas.
While she doesn’t intercept calls, Daisy has multiple phone numbers that have been pushed out to online lists used by UK scammers. But instead of giving into the con, she rambles about her grandchildren, birds outside, and her cat and gets easily confused about technology. She sometimes gives scammers fake bank info.
AI granny is a drop in the bucket. Making scammers’ days a little harder is a promising start, but phone scams have become so common that someone reading this probably had to pause mid-sentence to silence one. Last year, phone scammers stole over $1 trillion around the world, according to the Global Anti-Scam Alliance.—MM
[Some Senior Humor from Silverback Ross (Hoser Silverbacks)]
On the 8th day, God created seniors. Most seniors never get enough exercise. In His wisdom, God decreed that seniors become forgetful so they would have to search for their eyeglasses, keys, and other things, thus doing more walking. And God looked down and saw that it was good.
Then God saw there was another need. In His wisdom He made seniors lose coordination so they would drop things, requiring them to bend, reach, and stretch more. And God looked down and saw that it was good.
Then God considered the function of bladders and decided seniors would have additional calls of nature, requiring more trips to the bathroom, thus providing more exercise. God looked down and saw that it was good.
So if you find, as you age, you are getting up and down a lot more times, remember it’s God’s will. It is all in your best interest even though you mutter under your breath.
Seven Important Facts to Remember as We Grow Older:
#7
Death is the number 1 killer in the world.
#6
Life is sexually transmitted.
#5 Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks, months, maybe they won’t bother you for years.
#3
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
#2
In the 60’s, people took LSD to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.
#1
Life is like a jar of jalapeño peppers. What you do today may be a burning issue tomorrow.
Please share this wisdom with others; I would do it now but I need to go to the bathroom.
