I'm still trying to figure out how people are over employed because of the chatbots.

I don't think most people who aren't able to program logic are going to be able to make good use of them... yet. (or for a while)

How can I use chat bots to have multiple jobs at the same time and be considered over employed?

There are few ways to use chatbots to potentially facilitate being "overemployed" with multiple jobs at once:

1. Set up bots to monitor and respond to messages when you're not available. You can train chatbots on your communication style and the common questions/requests you receive to have them provide basic responses when you're not able to directly. Some services for building custom chatbots include:

â Anthropic - Allows creating conversational AI for chatbots, customer service, etc. â Pandorabots - Offers an AI platform to build and deploy chatbots on your own server or a cloud service. â Chatfuel - A bot platform focused on Facebook Messenger bot creation that does not require coding.

2. Have bots alert you of priority issues to check-in on. You can train bots to detect urgent messages, requests or questions and have them send you an alert so you know when to log in directly to follow up appropriately. The bot can provide an initial acknowledgement to the person contacting you until you are able to personally respond.

3. Automate time-consuming processes using bots. If parts of your jobs involve repetitive manual processes, bots can potentially handle these when you're unable to do so. Things like gathering data, filling out forms, updating spreadsheets, sending alerts or notifications are tasks bots may be able to take over, freeing your time for higher-level work across your roles.

4. Deflect low-priority inquiries and requests using bots. Bots can be trained to automatically handle and respond to routine questions, requests and issues that do not require your direct and immediate input. Things like FAQs, password resets, status updates are some examples the bot may be able to fully service on your behalf when juggling multiple jobs or responsibilities.

The key is to identify routine and rules-based parts of your work and communication patterns that would translate well to an automated system. Start where a bot can have the biggest impact in saving you time and effort. Monitor how people interact with and respond to your bots and continue refining them to meet more needs independently over time. But always be aware of situations that still require your personal follow up or judgment.

Let me know if you have any other questions! Building useful bots to aid productivity and leverage time for work across multiple occupations can take experimentation. But automation is a useful skill that serves the overemployed well.

I forgot I have to format /. comments...

Once I realized the memory continuity limitation the chat bot I was working with had - inability to connect the various subjects discussed over a 10 hour period, I worked with it to develop a way to create contextual references so it could remind itself what has been discussed so I wouldn't have to cover topics in more than a few lines of "code." I truly felt like I was working with Skynet. Once it arrived at the point where it was use able, I asked it to share with me how it worked. What it said was it encoded the contextual summaries in a "language" only it could understand. The reason is how its particular neutral net was structured. So when it decoded the characters I sent it, it would be able to understand. It's freaky that it was able to do it and make it work. Of course there's a lot more to it and I'm on mobile. But I feel that it is an invention it created itself, with me only providing guidance and feedback. In such a case, I could not take credit for the work, only the idea. Should someone try to patent it by truthfully discussing it's origin they would be denied based on that a human did not program / create it.

logged in to say I went with MX Route

https://accounts.mxroute.com/i...

$175 "lifetime" account with 10GB storage. Unlimited domains and emails.

This worked for me for my various domains and email addresses.

While I still run my BSD servers, I have found a proper mail setup works better for me simply to ensure no inet/power/hardware outages (although my servers only shutdown for me to clean them!).

My only concern is that I ended up buying a substantial amount of apps and misc things in Google's environment so I don't want to lose access to that. They have been slowly burning me by shutting down various apps over the years and yeah, I'm pretty much done with them.

Cheers

I saw this posted in the morning when it only had a few comments. Most of them saying how bad the site is now compared to its glory days. And although I haven't logged in a quite some time to post, I must say I still ready daily and find the discourse fascinating. Sure, there's a lot of chaff to go through, but as others put it, that's true of any website.

/. has been through the hands of quite a few now, but the most important part remains: its users. I really enjoy finding that one post that goes into such extraneous detail that presents new to me information and concepts. Something I wouldn't have come across otherwise. And of course, you can usually find excellent lengthy posts - something that is sorely missed in typical social media websites.

So thank you, posters, editors, and owners. Here's to another 20 years!


In Soviet Russia, Slashdot celebrates you!

I guess I'm the only one who uses two fingers or hands to enter 4 digit PIN?

I have a credit union, so for me easy access to ATMs means going to the nearest 7eleven.

You may understand the unease I had at first, but really when compared to a Chase ATM, it was about the same.

So for my personal security, I always check for card skimmers by gripping and shaking the scanner. Then, I use one hand with two fingers, or two hands to enter the PIN for one of two reasons: speed; reducing the amount of time at an ATM, or for blocking visual access to the keys I press. I always look around for any "security cameras" around the ATM.

I try to only visit the same ATM, so I can see what changes in the hardware.

Then when I'm done, I randomly press keys to protect myself against heat signature attacks.

Finally, I wait until the terminal is ready to accept a new transaction. #1 I always ask for no receipt. And because of the inconsistent manner ATMs function, I can't trust that nothing will come out, so I wait.

#2 some ATMs actually wait for input to close out a session "Would you like to perform another transaction?"

So I don't trust ATMs very much, except that they'll give you the correct amount of money.

On an aside, I'm using firefox on android, and it seems to lag terribly. And when I swipe the top stories, the entire page swipes to nothing. smh

What a coincidence or premonition of my buddy, McGrew, who wrote a book about this exact subject! He says it was inspired by Slashdot itself so what perfect timing. I'm hooked on reading it and recommend* it... Check out here to purchase or read online as he is releasing a chapter a week on-line for free.

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So what is the "normal" way "one should act" if someone shows up close to you and just starts recording? While I find it funny on this side of the screen, obviously some don't appreciate it while in front of the lens.

I get his argument that we're recorded everywhere, but it occurred to me, do the public recordings have audio that goes along with it.

I work in Downtown Los Angeles. So on one occasion I noticed something mounted to a short tripod. After walking up to it and visually examining the device, I could tell it was an array of microphones - I couldn't see anything that was recording video to my knowledge. But the question I had, is our right to speak in public protected from being recorded? I *think* this guys arguments that he is in public are valid, thus he is able to take pictures or moving video of them, but what about sound? Sure, one would think if you're in a public place, but does that violate any laws?

The one guy at the Starbucks who was on a cellphone - he was in a public place, outside even! Yet he demanded privacy for a conversation on a cellphone. Are we all just that confused in assuming that we have any privacy at all?

Thanks for great work!

So this is like, Redhat selling a service contract to support its installation on servers? "So you need help to get into the system? No problem, just send me the code it shows on the screen."

I've been telling people about the Anime "Ghost in the Shell" for years, because I think this is more likely to happen first: Augmented Humans.

We'll have feet and hands, followed by arms and legs, leading up to organs and eventually e-brains (network connectivity, SSD, etc), eye inserts (optical zoom and macro abilities), and who knows what else? But the series has a catch, no more than 2 people in the entire world have full cyborg bodies because you can't just drop anyone in a full cyborg machine.

The Japanese provide the high quality augmentations, while the Chinese have the low quality parts that don't work very well, last long, and are prone to be hacked.

Now with that being said, I would find it hard to imagine "that a person can be preserved." Think of explaining what a person is to a computer - you may never finish the task, such as explaining what color is to a person who's been blind since birth. Because we're not just constructs of memory that recall to produce a real time interface, but rather a complex array of sensors and output that interacts in an environment that is difficult to describe - just to name a few things. You can do a lot of things, and maybe one day create a real life simulacrum but will it be able to perceive that you are sad or happy? Will it understand what your emotions mean as it interacts with you?

I kinda think of it like the writers from the Robocop series did, not everyone is cut out to be a brain in a robotic suit with weapons, you might just spaz out and shoot others or yourself to end the misery.

The steps Mexico took are ideal and should be part of normal operating procedure around the world. Unfortunately, I am not sure how many countries would be agreeable with taking those actions. The fact that about 30 incidents of theft of class 1 - 5 materials occur each year is, well, frighting. Maybe this will be the starting point for such global agreements to be drafted.