Pierre Ferragu, an analyst at New Street Research and a known advocate of Tesla Inc., took a swipe at OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
What Happened: On Wednesday, in a post on X, formerly Twitter, Ferragu criticized generative AI, such as ChatGPT, saying that they often feel as ineffective as a call center representative reading from a script.
“Generative AI will do great in call centers. Chat GPT et al. regularly feel about as useless as the poor soul on the other end of the line, reading you a scripted answer,” he stated.
Despite this, he expressed optimism about the future of generative AI, predicting that it will soon outperform call centers, although the tone of post suggested that he was saying this in a sarcastic manner.
“At the same time, I am confident Generative AI will soon exceed call center capabilities. I find ChatGPT more and more capable of correcting itself, when challenged. I ...