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[Robert Primak]

 I have very little difficulty talking with reps from all over the world. But it is my experience that getting the technical info I need from any live person has gotten more and more difficult. 
I have often had better luck with the automated systems than with the human reps. I also have had better experiences with automatic grocery store checkout machines than with live cashiers. Going online and "chatting" with AI "reps" has also often been more fruitful than chatting with actual humans. 
When looking for tech specs, the only use I have for a physical display and a product in the box is to get the exact model number and serial number so as to conduct a more focused online search query.  I usually end up buying from the online sources, unless I need the item immediately. 
I don't make use of AI chabots in search, as I find matching keywords or model numbers often gets me exactly the info I need much more quickly, without all the conversational chatter of a bot interaction. But I am not a socially interactive person. Most people are socially interactive. I am more "machine interactive" than "people interactive".  
With a UPS failure (which I am experiencing with one of my units now) I may have to act quickly. That's the only time I buy at bricks and mortar stores these days. Except for food, which I want to be exactly my selections. 
-- Bob Primak 

    On Sunday, June 25, 2023 at 08:36:55 AM EDT, Ted Kochanski <tedpkphd at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 I'm willing to bet that just as a lot of the people who answer queries for "local companies" are actually located in Bangaloru in India -- so too will a lot of the "gig" workers building and training the models for local companies be Bangaloruan as well
Once globalization was viewed as the way to democratize tech -- combining local subject matter expertise with global technical competence
The reality has been the global spread of the "moronocracy" -- wasting everyone's time  --- in you having to provide for yourself the expertise for the services [with the "assistance of remote customer servants"] which at one time you could obtain locally
Case in point -- yesterday I bought a new UPS at Microcenter -- two different sales assistants were unable to understand the ratings of the various products -- specifically the relationship between Watt - Hours, Joules, and Watts although they could babble the manufacturer's PR-line about pure sinewave power

Ted
On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 4:55 PM Drew King <dking65 at kingconsulting.us> wrote:

  
I find myself using either MS Chat or Google Bard as they offer new content.
 
Still wouldn't write a paper with them. An outline, yes.
 
 
Command line syntax questions in Windows/Linux have been very accurate and helpful in Chat.
 
MS is rapidly integrating AI into Windows 11, and Office. It will soon be a piece of cake for somebody who does not know how to generate charts and graphs in Microsoft Excel to do so easily.
 
Some companies are beginning to ban chat GPT for their employees. I think they believe it's no different than using Facebook while at work. Programmers that work for these companies are frustrated because they've been using ai to check their code and run tests, and now their bosses are telling them they're not allowed to.
 
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