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Yes, of course. The bot can request information and the customer can provide it if they feel like it, and then someone qualified can call them back when they have their hands free.

But there's no bot, per se, needed at all. An answering machine from 1993 can do this same information-gathering job. :)

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I can see a useful simple case of structuring a good answering system and then using AI to do STT then using Claude to structure the callback data

Good point.

So update the device from 1993's new-fangled digital answering machine to 2009's Google Voice, and have it do the transcription from voicemail to text.

Someone will still have to call Bill back about his Honda (which is actually the Kia he bought for his daughter -- Bill is not a very technical guy these days[1] and he confuses such concepts regularly) in order to get any trading of money for services done.

It doesn't take an LLM to get there, and Bill would probably prefer to avoid being frustrated by the bot's insistent nature.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47356166


Look, you‘re kicking an open door. I think LLMs applied like this are just a layer of complexity that os mostly replacing lower level programming solutions that could do the same thing



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