British mobile phone company O2 has unveiled a new creation, Daisy, a chit-chat and kitty-cat loving artificial intelligence"granny" who talks to scammers to keep them away from real people.contestant and scam victim Amy Hart, scammers are heard feeling much of the same frustrations they put their victims through as Daisy breezily yammers on about her kitten, Fluffy, and her inability to follow the scammers' instructions.
"I think your profession is bothering people, right?" one defeated scammer tells Daisy after being given the runaround.AI met fruit fly, and a better brain model emerged "While they're busy talking to me, they can't be scamming you. And let's face it, dear, I've got all the time in the world," she says.
O2, the company behind the scam-baiting granny, said the AI technology can keep scammers on the phone for 40 minutes at a time. Daisy was trained with the help of YouTuber and software engineerIn order to bait scammers into time-wasting calls, the company utilized the practice of"number seeding," which put the AI granny's number on lists used by scammers to find their victims.
"But crucially, Daisy is also a reminder that no matter how persuasive someone on the other end of the phone may be, they aren't always who you think they are."