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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: AI Phone Bots Foil Scammers By Wasting Their Time
Description: Some experts are worried AI could undo human civilization, but some of it is trying to help people. Like a project that uses AI phone bots to keep phone scammers from scamming people. Plus: in 2020, a soccer team in Scotland tried livestreaming its matches with automated cameras, but AI had trouble figuring out what the ball was.
People Hire Phone Bots to Torture Telemarketers (Wall Street Journal)
AI Camera Ruins Soccer Game For Fans After Mistaking Referee's Bald Head For Ball (IFL Science)
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