News Shockingly real' AI Santa is free to use, will put Mall Santa's everywhere out of jobs

[Admin]

There is a seasonal new interactive site where you can chat to AI Santa, tell him what you want for Christmas, and spread some cheer.

Shockingly real' AI Santa is free to use, will put Mall Santa's everywhere out of jobs : Read more

 

[-Fran-]

This is such a bizarre legal and privacy (for kids) rabbit hole I wouldn't even dare using it.

The fact it "detected" items in your room is already creepy enough.

Keep the Santas in the mall, for sure.

Regards.

 

[Colif]

One way to confuse young kids who ask that santa for a gift and don't get it, and Old people who don't know much about AI already.

Old person: he does exist? I want a refund for all the gifts I paid for in his name since I was told he was fake.

I don't have a camera so that is one advantage I guess.

 

[OneMoreUser]

AI is going to be everywhere if we like it or not.
Where I work AI now now handles about 50% of support questions that arrive by mail or chat. It has taken away a good deal of the more routine question which were, frankly, driving those answering nuts due to the repetitiveness, plus, as the system runs 24-7, those helped by the AI also benefit from instant replies.
Fine tuning and optimizing the AI has brought new tasks to doing support, only it isn't a big job in the day to day operations - getting it up and running however took some doing as we were sort of early adopters. It is a total win for the company, for employees and customers the back is a mixed one.
I see good and bad in AI, but there is no putting back the genie in its bottle. The AI Santa described in the article, that is not progress.

 

[Math Geek]

lol just noticed the article here about it. saw it a little bit ago.

could be fun to amuse yourself with, but not sure about letting kids on it, at least unsupervised

 

[USAFRet]

it even commented on items in my room.

Now why would I allow this thing to take video of the inside of my house?

 

[Math Geek]

it even commented on items in my room.

Now why would I allow this thing to take video of the inside of my house?

how else is amazon going to know what to suggest you buy if it doesn't know what you already have?

 

[ex_bubblehead]

it even commented on items in my room.

Now why would I allow this thing to take video of the inside of my house?

That's why I have a projection screen behind the one chair that I use for such conferencing. The camera only sees a blank white wall or whatever else I want to project upon it.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

How long until the AI CVI's say "I'm sorry, to use this service you need a webcam capable of 4K."

 

[stonecarver]

Thank god my kids and all my nephews and nieces are all past that age. If they were I would drop you kids do know it's the clown from the Movie "It" playing Santa on that AI page. Bad idea all around.

 

[Sippincider]

Now why would I allow this thing to take video of the inside of my house?

Those of us who know something about tech will ask that.

But... I'll venture that a large majority of (certain social media) users would let this thing freely scan their homes, without a second thought of what "Santa" is really doing.

 

[Giroro]

Those of us who know something about tech will ask that.

But... I'll venture that a large majority of (certain social media) users would let this thing freely scan their homes, without a second thought of what "Santa" is really doing.

It's true.
Look at how many people played Pokemon go without having any idea Niantic is up front and explicit about being a location tracking and data harvesting company, not a game company.

 

[Findecanor]

I would prefer to keep my loved ones far away from any business associated with Peter Thiel.

 

[alrighty_then]

I would think a more "believable" santa is the physical one at the mall, but if kids still believe what they see on a screen then this sure would be easier. Some parents will go for it.

Whomever came up with this idea at Tavus is clever as they're going to get a lot of free press. They very well may get enough exposure/clients from this that they never need to charge a dime.

 

[umeng2002_2]

Gotta get small kids to trust the AI early, so when they get older, they won't question it.

 

[phej]

Haven't we learned that we should ignore anything by Peter Thiel yet?

 

[Brem101]

This feels like an onion headline… “Virgin programmer says AI chat better than real thing”. Lol