22 Replies to “I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords”

    1. Steve …. I doubt that the computer AI’s could be programed to be lazy & incompetent enough to replace government workers!! SARC

      1. But think of the money as taxpayers we would all save from elimination worker salaries, benefits and pensions.

  2. I will not mourn the loss of any job that was basically a middleman job. Anything that breaks down the barriers between buyers and sellers is a win to me. Imagine being able to conduct a trade without a middleman earning a commission, for example. Imagine buying alcohol without a liquor board in the middle. Who would miss having to pick up packages at the Post Office?

    And call centers have been borderline useless for many years, as corporations have massively outsourced their staffing to the Philippines and India. The call center staff are usually unhelpful, and/or made helpful only due to their ability to push a button unavailable to members of the public.

    Jobs should exist because they serve a useful function that society values. Not as a mechanism to ensure that everyone in society is paid something just cuz.

    1. Well, I sure hope they don’t go overboard and start terminating DEI managers.

  3. I wonder when they’re going to fix the lying/hallucination problem that all AI still seems to have. I can’t see everyone replaced until that problem is solved.

  5. It’ll seem weird to speak to someone without a Punjabi accent. I guess they could program in that option, might even be the default.

    1. My Punjabi dude is always named ‘John Wayne’. I hope AI continues the Americanism. It always makes me feel as though I’m speaking with someone who can get stuff done.

  6. Does the AI have a Indian accent? Does it speak intelligible English? Do it know it know its ass from its elbow? Whenever I get a call from “Canada Post” bout that parcel I never ordered, or from Revenue Canada about the money I owe, or from my bank to get my personal information, I switch to French and enjoy the confusion. Unfortunately in about a month AIs will be used to make those scam calls, and it might even get competant at it.

  7. Can’t wait to find out if these things have a sense of humor. That will be the true test.

    1. Humour needs the ability to think contextually, something AI’s developers or coders are incapable of. Binary is all they know.

      1. I’m betting that they won’t like me and they’ll be forced to spit me out to one of their few remaining humans.

  9. I sincerely hope the AI voices retain an East Indian accent to offer a certain comfort level as Canadians adapt to the new technology.

  10. Front line customer service has always been considered as a necessary nuisance by most of the MBA-indoctrinated management class, thus an ideal candidate for cost-saving AI. Now a modern day pestilence, without even a modicum of magnanimity. Implementations I’ve encountered (other than Hewlett-Packard’s) are hopelessly clumsy, obviously coded by developers suffering a serious case of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

  12. It wonder how long till AI is used to scam old or stupid people out of their life’s savings?

  13. For the past few years, 100% of the call centers calling me to ask if I’d like to have a cut rate mobile phone for less than anyone advertised, less than even the remanufactured or refurbished phones any legit company can access, has had the accent from India. I don’t hate those people, but their English isn’t good enough for telemarketing and they should be doing something else.

    I expect widespread upheaval across a variety of industries in Canada and the US, and feel fortunate that I work in an industry which requires at least a few years of trade experience and schooling to be able to do the basic tasks required. My interest in training those who the federal gov’t has allowed to jump into this country and bring their toxicity with them, is zero.

    I welcome the moment I can “press 1 for an Alberta accent” … “press 2 for a French accent” … “press 3 for a soft Colombiana from Medellin accent” …
    This is long overdue !
    lol.. .

    1. I dunno, scammers are getting lazy. They email or text and expect you to cut and paste an address or return a call. Back in the day scammers used to work for it, have more human contact, know what I mean?

      1. Yes, and I do think they all “work” from home, and purely on commission though, so whoever is hiring this bunch isn’t out much cash. They may even be paid a cut from the federal gov’t dept. of new canadians.

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