JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
It was costing the administration around half a million dollars.
How? Surely this was put in place as a cost cutting measure. I mean, terminate it, sure. Pay actual humans. I just have questions.
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
It was costing the administration around half a million dollars.
How? Surely this was put in place as a cost cutting measure. I mean, terminate it, sure. Pay actual humans. I just have questions.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
Often the promised cost savings never materialise, because when the chatbot fucks up, it’s humans who need to clean up the mess.
NewDayRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
it’s short sighted, because an ai chat bot that can answer basic surface level questions 24/7 should absolutely be more cost effective than having staff field the same questions. You can have half of them be the escalation point and assign different work to the other half. For the population of NYC this is the right approach.
However I would accept that the previous administration was corrupt and overpaid an incompetent contractor. Mamdani should restart the project, not scrap it.
dondelelcaro@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The only way a chatbot can accurately answer basic level questioning is if staff has put in time to do the documentation. If they have, you frequently don’t even need the chatbot because simple web searches will show up the question and answer or one of the major chatbots will have already indexed the documentation and can answer the question for free.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
it was eric adams.