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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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". </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-- Bob Primak </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Sunday, June 25, 2023 at 08:36:55 AM EDT, Ted Kochanski <tedpkphd@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div style=""><div id="ydp367a6d4yiv6358897406" style=""><div dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-size: 13px;">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 -- <div>so too will a lot of the "gig" workers building and training the models for local companies be Bangaloruan as well</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Once globalization was viewed as the way to democratize tech -- combining local subject matter expertise with global technical competence</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>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</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>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 -- </div><div>specifically the relationship between Watt - Hours, Joules, and Watts although they could babble the manufacturer's PR-line about pure sinewave power</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Ted</div></div><br clear="none"><div class="ydp367a6d4yiv6358897406gmail_quote" style=""><div id="ydp367a6d4yiv6358897406yqt50900" class="ydp367a6d4yiv6358897406yqt0548204012" style=""><div dir="ltr" class="ydp367a6d4yiv6358897406gmail_attr" style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-size: 13px;">On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 4:55 PM Drew King <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:dking65@kingconsulting.us" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">dking65@kingconsulting.us</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="ydp367a6d4yiv6358897406gmail_quote">
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<p style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-size: 13px;"><font size="5">I find myself using either MS Chat or Google Bard
as they offer new content.</font></p>
<p style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-size: 13px;"><font size="5">Still wouldn't write a paper with them. An
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<p style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-size: 13px;"><font size="5">Command line syntax questions in Windows/Linux
have been very accurate and helpful in Chat.</font></p>
<p style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-size: 13px;"><font size="5">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.</font></p>
<p style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-size: 13px;"><font size="5">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.</font></p>
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