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Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot (arstechnica.com)
submitted 8 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 125 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sad commentary when your company's chatbot is more humane than the rest of the company ... and fired for it.

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 36 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's actually a deep thought.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

No, Deep Thought was the chess computer. This is a large lanuage model.

[–] it3agle@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I thought that was Deep Blue.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Deep Thought predates Deep Blue and is named after the computer in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Thought_(chess_computer)

[–] lingh0e@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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