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Then the telephone numbers of vital government services all started ringing at once, nonstop, as they were swamped by robot calls.
"The pretend self of a robot calls forth the pretend self of a person performing for it," she said.
"I have to tell people, 'If a robot calls, don't hang up -- it's not a sales call; it's me,' " she says.
Currently deployed in a department store in Japan, this robot calls kids by name--after it scans badges they wear--and converses with them in simple robot-speak.
At best I find it amusing to see what I am being served and at worst mildly annoying...in fact less annoying than the robot calls of the '80s and '90s that I still get!
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