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That's a cool dream, but my question is: is it happening? Out of the things you listed the only ones that seem plausible are translation team and data entry te

That's a cool dream, but my question is: is it happening? Out of the things you listed the only ones that seem plausible are translation team and data entry team, though even there, I'd want humans to deslop the output.

jakeydus 11mo ago
I think that is it happening is an important question, but “does the consumer actually want it to happen” should be equally important. It won’t be, because the c suite will just make the decision for us all, but it ought to be.
- com2kid 11mo ago
  If done properly you shouldn't be able to tell. A really good voice AI assistant is indistinguishable from front line support reading through a script, and potentially a few steps better.
com2kid 11mo ago
I'm telling you of what I've either worked on or seen myself. Just a couple days ago a scheduled a furnace repair through an AI receptionist on the phone. Layoffs in tech support and customer service already happened last year. Entry level sales jobs doing cold calling have been replaced all over the place.
- willis936 11mo ago
  AI didn't replace those jobs, it was just the excuse to stop offering the service.
- pizlonator 11mo ago
  Here's the thing I'm pushing back on: > The return is measurable and often immediate, not hypothetical. It's one thing to let go some people and replace them with AI. It's quite another to have a measurable and often immediate, not hypothetical return on that decision.
carlosjobim 11mo ago
You are not capable of telling the difference between human translated and AI translated communication.
- DaSHacka 11mo ago
  Source?
  - carlosjobim 11mo ago
    Source: Reality. You are probably already communicating with people who you have no idea are using AI to translate their messages. I have used AI translation professionally for a few years, and between hundreds of people in long conversations, nobody has ever asked if the text has been translated. Before AI translators, you could write at most one message and people would notice.

jakeydus 11mo ago

I think that is it happening is an important question, but “does the consumer actually want it to happen” should be equally important. It won’t be, because the c suite will just make the decision for us all, but it ought to be.

com2kid 11mo ago
If done properly you shouldn't be able to tell. A really good voice AI assistant is indistinguishable from front line support reading through a script, and potentially a few steps better.

com2kid 11mo ago

I'm telling you of what I've either worked on or seen myself. Just a couple days ago a scheduled a furnace repair through an AI receptionist on the phone. Layoffs in tech support and customer service already happened last year. Entry level sales jobs doing cold calling have been replaced all over the place.

willis936 11mo ago
AI didn't replace those jobs, it was just the excuse to stop offering the service.
pizlonator 11mo ago
Here's the thing I'm pushing back on: > The return is measurable and often immediate, not hypothetical. It's one thing to let go some people and replace them with AI. It's quite another to have a measurable and often immediate, not hypothetical return on that decision.

carlosjobim 11mo ago

You are not capable of telling the difference between human translated and AI translated communication.

DaSHacka 11mo ago
Source?
- carlosjobim 11mo ago
  Source: Reality. You are probably already communicating with people who you have no idea are using AI to translate their messages. I have used AI translation professionally for a few years, and between hundreds of people in long conversations, nobody has ever asked if the text has been translated. Before AI translators, you could write at most one message and people would notice.