• FaceDeer@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    Those questions can be asked about humans who are making the decision too. How long does it take for a human to determine that it’s an emergency? How many are going to mis-identify as a non-emergency? There’s nothing unique about AI here.

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      6 hours ago

      We know how to run excellent human 911 service whereas automation in this area has always been frustrating garbage unfit to handle a cable tv outage.

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        5 hours ago

        Did you read the article? The reason they’re looking into this is because they’re not able to run an excellent human 911 service, they can’t hire enough people to handle the volume of non-emergency calls that are coming to the emergency line.