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A standardized chime in the beginning of the phone call could serve to alert humans as well as AI agents that the party they are talking to are an AI, eliminating the first part of the conversation.

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I love it, we are returning back to 64k internet where the phone starts screeching to get you where you need to be.

Bring back Cap'n Crunch and the rainbow books!

I'm not sure we actually want to bring back Jon Draper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper#Allegations_of_sex...

The Japanese figured this out already! We just say moshi-moshi when you start a phone call [1]. Originally it was believed ghosts couldn't say moshi-moshi (I can speak; I can speak). Now we can apply it to the ghosts in our machines. Who's gonna tell Openai? ;)

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/comments/13hc2gw/why_was_...

Yes, pleaaaase! Just make sure it's audible for most people. Otherwise one trick that works well is insulting the caller. Computers tend to react quite differently from humans. J/k, don't do it (if you're not certain that your insulting a bot.)

That would be my queue to hang up. A computer should never talk to you first.

> A computer should never talk to you first.

Isn't that exactly what happens with every IVR (phone menu) system?

yes and it is infuriating. I don't think anyone wants more of those. But it will be fun prompt injecting AI agents with my mouth in the coming decades. Beats the old hacks for beating the IVR systems to get to a person

They hopefully don't call you first. I was thinking of Google calling restaurants on your behalf to check for reservations. It's not valuing the other party's time. Unless they have their own systems.

See everyone using their own LLMs to write paragraphs that will never be read and only summarized by an LLM on the other end. We're achieved negative compression.

A standardised sound throughout

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