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Becoming a chatbot: my life as a real estate AI’s human backup | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

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The long read: For one weird year, I was the human who stepped in to make sure a property chatbot didn’t blow its cover – I was a person pretending to be a computer pretending to be a person

Illustration: Getty/Guardian Design For one weird year, I was the human who stepped in to make sure a property chatbot didn’t blow its cover – I was a person pretending to be a computer pretending to be a person By Laura Preston Tue 13 Dec 2022 01.00 EST Share Prefer the Guardian on Google T he recruiter was a chipper woman with a master’s degree in English. Previously she had worked as an independent bookseller. “Your experience as an English grad student is ideal for this role,” she told me. The position was at a company that made artificial intelligence for real estate. They had developed a

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