Your Turing Test: Big "F"

[Thunderfoot]

Why, yes, I have been thinking about home security. (polite answer) Yes, so what products do you carry? (product list) Hmmm, I'm sorry I was looking for something more in an orbital laser array or turret based rail gun... pause ... *click*

 

[Nylanfs]

Sharks with Fricking Laser beams!

 

[Remus Lupin]

"You must spread some experience around before giving to Dannyalcatraz."

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Update: It just called me again, and I suspect the IT guys have been working on it.

I mentioned hippos, US Army claymore mines w/tripwires, tiger's blood, Vatican assassins, and snapping turtles, and all it did was compliment me on my interest in home security and eventually hang up on me politely.

IOW, I was unable to "Kirk" it.

 

[Thunderfoot]

Update: It just called me again, and I suspect the IT guys have been working on it.

I mentioned hippos, US Army claymore mines w/tripwires, tiger's blood, Vatican assassins, and snapping turtles, and all it did was compliment me on my interest in home security and eventually hang up on me politely.

IOW, I was unable to "Kirk" it.

It's because you forgot to mention the sharks with the frikkin' laser beams on their heads, orbital laser arrays and the turret based rail gun... When will you ever learn?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

It actually called me back today at around 3:30PM CST...again, I was unable to "Kirk" it.

Bizzarely, I started to ask it a question and it interrupted me! I told it it was being rude, and it apologized. I asked to speak to "Peggy", but it started talking about handing me to a specialist... When I asked (twice) if it had accepted Jesus as its personal savior, it again politely concluded the call.

I hope I'm not actually helping someone program Skynet or Cylons...

 

[Aeolius]

Sharks with Fricking Laser beams!

 

[Janx]

It actually called me back today at around 3:30PM CST...again, I was unable to "Kirk" it.

Bizzarely, I started to ask it a question and it interrupted me! I told it it was being rude, and it apologized. I asked to speak to "Peggy", but it started talking about handing me to a specialist... When I asked (twice) if it had accepted Jesus as its personal savior, it again politely concluded the call.

I hope I'm not actually helping someone program Skynet or Cylons...

Does this thing ever actually get to the point of selling you something or taking an order?

I find it odd that anybody woudl pay for a voice recognition telemarketing service if it doesn't actually get people to close the deal...

Have you tried playing back a modem connection squeal?

Or the Captain Krunch tone?

Or singing to it?

Or asking it questions from Shitsirisays.com?

While I hate telemarketer calls, it does sound like a fun experiment to hang out at Danny's house and answer the phone....

 

[MarkB]

Try feeding it paradoxes, or asking it to calculate the value of zero divided by zero.

 

[Umbran]

I find it odd that anybody woudl pay for a voice recognition telemarketing service if it doesn't actually get people to close the deal...

It works on the same economics as spam e-mail. The return rate is small, but if you aren't paying a live telemarketer, the cost per call is tiny. A small number of successes still ends in a payoff.