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Agents that can receive and make phone calls end to end and perform real world actions (I use Simple AI to not have to talk to airlines or make food orders etc, it works well most of the time

Isn't this more a problem created by them doing garbage automations over anything really solved. Wow Disney could solve fast pass feeling. It's not a problem it's a feature.

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Maybe for support but it’s a real world problem unrelated to language models that they do help me with. And ordering food at a restaurant is an age old problem, I just don’t enjoy making the call personally so I got value out of using a voice agent to do it for me. I asked the staff at the restaurant and they said it was laggy so we still have to improve the experience a bit for both parties to enjoy this type of experience, not saying it’s perfect.

Could you elaborate how you actually order food like this?

“Call RestaurantName and order two massaman curry one with chicken and one with veggies plus rice for pickup”

Then I get a push notif a few minutes later with the ETA.

Just wait until everyone you'd want to talk to deploys their own adversarial agents!

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