Still, a service like one presented in this post makes a lot of sense. Usually there is a lot of inertia in orgs so even if AGI is achieved it could take years for them to update their systems. Also, if I have my own agent that knows me, I would rather ask it to make these kinds of calls (that way I don't have to even figure out what phone numbers to call). Basically the agents of businesses and customers should work together to solve the problem and only involve humans when key decisions need to be made.

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yoz-y 5 days ago | parent [-]

The fact that the information was passed from the agent to the executing person is something that could be done today and isn’t.

Any call center systematically asks to repeat all information, any administration asks for papers and all its dependencies. (For example in France in order to get married you need both the birth certificate, pacs certificate and pacs non-dissolution certificate. All of these contain the same information)

This is not a problem that needs LLMs to be solved. It’s a data entry and retrieval with consent problem.

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osigurdson 3 days ago | parent [-]

>> This is not a problem that needs LLMs to be solved.

Yes, better customer service is not bounded by physics but it might be bounded by competence or maybe even malice if companies simply want to make the experience horrible so no one ever calls back (suggest starting with Hanlon's razor first however). Regardless, having an agent on our side, fighting against these two forces would be great.

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yoz-y 3 days ago | parent [-]

My worry with any agent calling is that the other party will just hang up. Why? Because the power is on their side and they know it.

	▲	osigurdson 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		So the AI on their side will detect the AI on my side, determine that it is AI and hang up? I don't know if there is anything to back up the hypothesis that they indeed want their systems to be horrible. It is possible, but sometimes, I want to pay more (buy more insurance coverage, etc), so sometimes our goals are actually aligned yet it is still a painful process. Therefore, I think it is more likely that the problem is competence.