> It was enormously expensive, it would have been cheaper to have a human on the other end.
This sounds exactly like what someone might have said about early IBM mainframes.
This sounds exactly like what someone might have said about early IBM mainframes.
[1] https://www.bmc.com/blogs/state-of-mainframe/
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/technology/what-happened-...
It probably doesn't count as successful since it didn't make money (I suppose this is why it was retired) but it was great at suggesting recipes from whatever ingredients I had, and ingredient pairings I wouldn't have thought about.
I still haven't found anything that works like it.
I wouldn't be surprised if an advanced chat bot with science fiction level AI would replace entire floors of Microsoft call centers at some point in the far future.