Government Technology

AI Bot Takes Non-Emergency Calls in Lyon County, Kan.

(TNS) — The Lyon County Emergency Communications Center has officially begun piloting its new AI call bot, named “Betty”, starting Monday, Dec. 1. The AI bot will begin answering ten types of select ...
NBC Los Angeles

Tech Worker Creates Call Bot to Repeatedly Contact the Unemployment Office

An unemployed tech worker couldn’t get through to the state unemployment department, which is a common frustration for many who are out-of-work during the pandemic, so he decided to use his skills to ...
KTVU

Laid-off Tesla employee who hired bot to call EDD finally gets backpay

TRACY, Calif. - A laid-off Tesla employee who got so frustrated about not being able to get through to the Employment Development Department that he hired a bot to make automated phone calls has ...
AOL

This couple created a bot to call 20,000 gas stations. They're building a price tracker from scratch.

Matt Cortland (left) and John Fleming (right) vibe-coded an app. It lets users compare recent gas price spikes with the cost of a cup of Dunkin' iced coffee.Anthony Anaya-Gorman "Hey, I'm Bobby from ...
BGR

Surprise: The 'AI Bot' People Talk To On Google Duplex Calls Is Sometimes Actually A Person

When Google unveiled Google Duplex last year at I/O 2018, the brand new Assistant feature looked terrific. It was the kind of futuristic technology nobody else had. With a simple voice command, you ...
AOL

This couple vibe coded a bot to call 20,000 gas stations. They're building a price tracker from scratch.

Matt Cortland (left) and John Fleming (right) vibe-coded an app. It lets users compare recent gas price spikes with the cost of a cup of Dunkin' iced coffee.Anthony Anaya-Gorman "Hey, I'm Bobby from ...