Granted it’s a low I.Q. AI, but functional none the less. We were already getting a lot of crap phone calls on our land line, (yes we still have a land line, blame the wife), but it ramped up with the politics in the air. Go figure two horrible misery causing viruses floating in the air at the same time. I read, some time ago, about someone that used a Raspberry Pi, Asterisk PBX software and some IVR (Interactive Voice Response) programming to answer those crap calls for you. I finally got around to putting it all together about a month ago. That’s when I discovered Lenny!
We’ve had a few calls that have “spoken” to Lenny. Keep in mind Lenny is just random audio files played in a way to make the caller think they are talking to a real person.
I personally have had conversations with A.I. on the telephone. It’s getting really good and may even be able to pass the Turing test. I’ll have to upgrade by hardware so I can fight back with my own adaptive IVR! 😀