At the moment I'm pretty inclined to hang up if I feel I'm wasting my time with a robot.

But maybe soon we will not even realise we speak to a robot, given the current speed of ai development.

I wonder how that will erode trust in calls. I moved from cold emailing and cold LinkedIn to cold calling because of the massive amounts of ai spam I have to compete with. But maybe cold calling will die soon as well if the robots emerge.

You would probably hang up if it went to voicemail too so the net loss is 0

I've been car shopping recently, and it took me a full week to realize that every dealership I'd talked to had an LLM with a fake name handling customer intake. I was 4 emails deep with one before I stopped to think about how plausible their near-instant response times were.