idiomaddict
@idiomaddict@lemmy.world
- Comment on AI ‘accent masking’ at overseas call centres sparks union backlash in Canada 5 days ago:
It was an inbound call center, they called the number on their insurance card and got me.
- Comment on AI ‘accent masking’ at overseas call centres sparks union backlash in Canada 5 days ago:
Racism, yes.
- Comment on AI ‘accent masking’ at overseas call centres sparks union backlash in Canada 5 days ago:
I used to work at a call center for US-Americans in the US, where I was born. The number of times people responded with something like “lol no it’s not,” when I told them my name was infuriating. People used to ask me the weather or about my state history as a test, and I had a guy once call me padme the whole time, I think because he confused India and Naboo.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Tbh, I don’t think there is a good app alternative and my priority would be moving somewhere where I can do my own grocery shopping. You don’t need a car if you’re close enough to go twice a week. I know it’s not easy, but that would be what I was working towards. You’re paying a serious premium with things like instacart even before you get to the delivery.
- Comment on Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. 5 months ago:
Well, and whether intelligence is required for mastery of language. Not even that long ago, in 2009, my linguistics professor held a forum discussion within the linguistics, informatics, and philosophy departments at my school where they each gave their perspectives on whether true mastery of language could exist without intelligence.
- Comment on Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. 5 months ago:
Linguists were divided until recently, to be fair.
- Comment on Trummerkind, the secret apartment built inside a shopping mall 1 year ago:
The buried lede about temporary and unpublished 9/11 portraits is incredible. I want to have dinner with this guy and his friends