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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2019 Februaryeschneider

About people ignoring real calls, like a hospital's, because they assume they're robocalls.

Voicemail is the 21st century Turing test. Once robocalls start faking that, we're f-cked. :/

Robocalls leave voicemails that people can't tell apart from voicemails left by real humans.

Has this happened?

Yes 81 (64%)Not sure 26 (21%)No 19 (15%)

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