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An AI ‘elderly grandmother’ has been created to take down phone scammers and it’s brilliant (sound up!)

It’s increasingly rare for people to actually use their mobiles to make a call to someone, as texting is just so much easier. Nowadays, when your phone rings it’s usually a scammer at the other end offering to remotely fix your PC or trying to sell a warranty for an appliance you don’t even own.

So it’s great to see that mobile operator O2 have come up with a creative solution – an AI voice which impersonates an ‘elderly grandmother’ designed to waste the scammer’s valuable time.

The Guardian newspaper shared the story, and it was posted on Twitter by Trung Phan.

Let’s have a listen.

Wonderful!

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Source @TrungTPhan