The largest British mobile network operator, O2, has just unveiled an artificial ielligence chatbot, the purpose of which is to deal with Phone scammers is
According to a TechCrunch report, the chatbot, named dAIsy, was developed as an elderly woman who has enough time to talk about a variety of topics (from knitting to her cat). In fact, this artificial ielligence chatbot is designed to deal with fraudsters whose goal is to steal people’s bank information and can confuse them with long conversations.
In its stateme about dAIsy, O2 says it has combined “various artificial ielligence models” to build it, which first converts the caller’s voice io text and then generates a response via a large custom language model. Finally, the text-to-speech model is used to generate a voice that can read the generated response.
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The following video of this chatbot has been released that shows its functionality. In this video, dAisy iroduces herself as “a scammer’s worst nightmare”.
To test its chatbot, the British carrier gia has added numbers related to this artificial ielligence to the list from which fraudsters choose their targets. When fraudsters call dAIsy, the AI can talk to them about completely unrelated topics, such as their fictitious family members or unrealistic hobbies. The chatbot even gives them fake bank accou details.
In one case, the chatbot asks the scammer to eer the phrase “WWW.” “It’s been an hour since we talked,” the scammer yells. To which the artificial ielligence softly replies: “How quickly time flies!”
To train this artificial ielligence model, the help of a YouTuber named “Jim Browning” (Jim Browning), who specializes in dealing with fraud, has been taken to a great exte.
Phone fraud is a huge problem in the US and UK, with millions of fraudsters stealing from the elderly every day. As meioned in the video above, 7 in 10 people in the UK have experienced a phone scam.
