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pessimizertoday at 4:58 PM0 repliesview on HN

It's important to note while people are pumping the AI bubble that a near-moron with a checklist can do this job. They replaced AI with a regular old phone tree.

AI couldn't do this job with a checklist. It would forget the entire checklist after two responses, then get fixated on the words that the customer used to complain about how dumb the AI was and loop until they hung up and called back to hopefully clear the context.

edit: Unless Kinney had been sold a product that used caller ID to carry over context, then the customer's best chances would be to scream "Agent!" over and over again (to get put on hold for 45 minutes, then transferred to the most screamed-at Philippine minimum-wage gig worker on the planet), or to show up to the drugstore and start screaming at people.