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I'm ready to be blown for sure

I don't wanna kill the man

I got something that comes to a point that I'd like to get close to your titties

Buddy I didn't know she was married, be mad at your wife for flirting with a random dude.

I want the model 3 because it's about a 5th of the cost of the model S. Also I have a charger in my garage already.

Is that a pair of text titties

I'll be spending $35k next year too. On the complete opposite kind of car... does 0-60 in 5.3 sec though.

Not with any great urgency but sometimes I think about it as the final end to my life. I don't want to go out with dementia or suffering of old age. Sometimes when I have really bad migraines I consider it, especially when they go on for a few hours.

I'm not management, I'm a team lead. I don't sign paychecks, fire or arrange people. I instruct, teach, delegate and architect projects. I'm basically a glorified babysitter 9-5, and an engineer on the weekends and nights.

We'll be ready for it when we pass universal basic income.

That's the dream. Not likely, but would be nice.

Nah it's more like. "I analyzed 3 years of your shopping history and on average you spend $347 per month on groceries - as you prefer fresh food over frozen and about 60% meat to 25% produce to 15% grain goods, I've organized weekly deliveries of foods that would suit your average meal plan under those criteria." After which you rate how well it did in certain areas and it learns even further from that.

Oh, yeah. That's probably 40 years or so down the line.

Yeah that's what I'm talking about. It's an AI that learns from your purchasing habits and figures out what you need or would like and buys it, based off the spending criteria you give it. The most popular one is a fashion one right now.

Wait are you under the impression that people actually know they're talking to machines? Most of the time they have no idea. In most cases they don't even need to call in.

Already got those actually. One of my company's competitors has an AI personal shopper.

You don't think the machine can learn when it's appropriate to make exceptions? The machine could be given base rules by management and be more efficient at retaining customers AND saving money than every agent on your floor after a day's call volume. You severely underestimate neural networks.

Mostly tech support so far. Think ISPs and Phone companies. We're expanding though. And yeah it's gonna be quite some time until the AI can take your position - but not as long as you might think. It'll happen before I'm old enough to run for president.

Here's the thing though - all it takes is one successful call for an ML instance to learn how to solve a particular issue - after that ALL of them, out of millions across different companies and continents know how to solve that issue too. Every human needs to be taught. Every AI learns and teaches every other instance of the AI at the same time. Imagine if your one co-worker that's dumb and figured out how to handle one emotional customer worked like an AI - suddenly every support agent in the world would know how to solve that same situation.

The data is already there. My company alone has already enabled 30+ domestic and international firms to cut their call center sizes down by 75% - and they're seeing increased customer satisfaction and retention. Most cases that took 5-10 minute phone calls are now solved in less than 10 text messages to an automated agent.

Human learning has a stopping point. Machine learning doesn't. Within our lifetimes machine learning will surpass human learning, and in an instant they'll be twice as intelligent. Then four times as intelligent. Etc, etc. People like to say that by 2100 the only things humans will need to do is the arts, but to be honest we already have algorithms creating critically acclaimed compositions of paint, prose and music indistinguishable from those of human artists. Humans will soon be obsolete, and it's my job to get us there faster.

Maybe when I was working desktop support I would have. These days I try not to mention how much I make either. I just leave it at "a lot".

People hate talking to machines because machines don't understand them. Our AI already figures things out faster than actual service reps. It's just a matter of time.

Yeah I think I'm the only person I really know in our profession that actually makes as much as people think we all make.

Yeah same... I need to get married and hand over my debit cards to a partner that can handle money honestly.