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New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human (www.shreveporttimes.com)
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[–] 7 points 6 days ago (1 child)

The key is to remember you can't actually fix anything except with the wacky fashionable new scam. .and since when does a y/n require fucking “ai"?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago* (1 child)

    I think the summary of the existing incident and providing updates is where they are using the AI. Which if given a limited data set should work.

    These LLM models do actually a good job of summarizing a list of facts you feed it. The issues happen when you want it to make something "new"

    For 911 I'd rather the government find the money to fund them, but I do feel like they are using AI in an appropriate scope.

    AI should not be used in life and death situations like a 911. But the way they are going about the roll out is demonstrating how to actually use AI as a tool and not some miracle machine.

    They should have left it only on the non-emergency line and called it there.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    A person could do this better faster cheaper lower odds of failure.

    'It can kinda do it sometimes so it's ready to go live' is slopper propaganda. There is no "AI" extant at this date.

    This is just an excuse to kill poor people. As all "ai" is.

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