Some may recall how I "Captain Kirk-ed" a phone call I was getting from a very natural sounding interactive robo-caller from a home security company- sometimes a couple of times a day- by discussing my extreme fascination with hippos and other non-sequiturs. Eventually, my nonsense got it into a stuttering/stammering loop with parts of 2 different sentences, and it hung up. It has not called me back in over a year.
Round 2 occurred today, with a call* from "someone" claiming that I was getting the call in response to an online survey I completed (I didn't), and that someone in my house was interested in Wal-Mart (describes nobody in my house).
When I told it that info and it continued its sell by trying to direct metro a website, I started singing about hippos. Hippos in space. I did the Drago impression ("I will crush you.") in my best Dolph Lundgren voice. It did not react like a human, but instead asked me questions about what I saw in front of me. I called it names based on its "gender"- most women would have gotten tiiiiiicked!- and when I laughed at its lack of appropriate response, it laughed too.
I called it a robot. It said "no." I said "yes", and it repeated its denial. We went back and forth with that until it laughed again... It never really responded to my non-sequiturs like a human, but I couldn't get it to freeze up.
It was less convincing or natural sounding than the one from the other company, but its AI seemed to be much more robust. This one lasted 10 minutes before I befuddled it enough to get it to hang up on me.
* The call was from (210) 468-7077.
Round 2 occurred today, with a call* from "someone" claiming that I was getting the call in response to an online survey I completed (I didn't), and that someone in my house was interested in Wal-Mart (describes nobody in my house).
When I told it that info and it continued its sell by trying to direct metro a website, I started singing about hippos. Hippos in space. I did the Drago impression ("I will crush you.") in my best Dolph Lundgren voice. It did not react like a human, but instead asked me questions about what I saw in front of me. I called it names based on its "gender"- most women would have gotten tiiiiiicked!- and when I laughed at its lack of appropriate response, it laughed too.
I called it a robot. It said "no." I said "yes", and it repeated its denial. We went back and forth with that until it laughed again... It never really responded to my non-sequiturs like a human, but I couldn't get it to freeze up.
It was less convincing or natural sounding than the one from the other company, but its AI seemed to be much more robust. This one lasted 10 minutes before I befuddled it enough to get it to hang up on me.
* The call was from (210) 468-7077.
