Talkative grandma confuses scammers

An artificial intelligence chatbot called dAIsy could help reduce phone scams by mimicking a chatty grandma’s voice and confusing scammers.

The dAIsy AI chatbot was developed by the UK’s largest mobile network operator, O2; The purpose of creating this chatbot is to confuse phone scammers.

What is artificial intelligence chatbot dAIsy?

The AI ​​chatbot dAIsy mimics the behavior of an elderly woman who loves to chat about knitting, her cat, and other topics. The purpose of this is to engage fraudsters for a long time and waste their time trying to obtain banking information.

In the press release of the UK mobile network operator, it is stated that the chatbot chatbot AI chatbot is a combination of different models of artificial intelligence, which converts the voice of the caller into text and then produces a response according to it using a large custom language model. The chatbot response will eventually convert it into a voice response through the text-to-speech model. The chatbot’s AI was trained in part with the help of scammer expert Jim Browning and some of his followers on YouTube.

According to the latest FBI report, last year people over the age of 60 lost more than $3.4 billion through phone calls alone; This number has increased compared to 2022 ($3.1 billion) and if dAIsy artificial intelligence chatbot can reduce the rate of phone scams, it will definitely be a positive thing.