[ExI] Do you fancy a date with a bot? Really???

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 2:55 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Men are hitting on my scheduling bot because it has a woman’s name.
>  Talk about desperate!  bill w
> By Alison Green on January 8, 2024
>
> <
> https://www.askamanager.org/2024/01/men-are-hitting-on-my-scheduling-bot-because-it-has-a-womans-name.html
> >
>
> Quote:
> A reader writes:
> I have sort of a strange situation. I provide consulting services for
> (mostly) small business owners. This generally involves scheduling
> some meetings, and I have an email “Personal Assistant” bot that does
> this for me. It has a female name (which was the default), and does
> not announce that it is a bot (though I don’t think it’s hard to
> tell). It gives a standard salutation and signs off with “Thank you,
> <bot name>.” All it does is schedule meetings, and it’s not nearly to
> the level of an AI chatbot or anything. Any parts of an email that it
> receives that don’t seem related to scheduling just get ignored by the
> program. The emails show up in my inbox and I review them to make sure
> everything got added to my calendar correctly.
>
> However, this complete lack of personal-type interaction has not
> stopped several of the men (not usually the actual owners of the
> client businesses) it is scheduling appointments with from asking it
> out on dates.
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>
> Fun read! It's just an upscale answering machine, not even an AI chatbot!
>
> BillK
>
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