nitin badjatia

The uncanny valley of empathy

Here’s an excerpt from my latest Substack post:

The aspirational AI customer service deployments today aim to not feel cold or mechanical. They are meant to be warm, patient, apparently attentive. They’ll remember what you said three turns ago. They’ll acknowledge your frustration. They tell you they understand.

But is that true understanding, or a very precise simulation of understanding?

Read the full article here.

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