AI agents will outmaneuver salespeople by optimizing persuasion

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AI agents will outmaneuver salespeople by optimizing persuasion

When I was a kid there were four AI agents in my life. Their names were Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde and they tried their best to hunt me down. This was 1980 and the agents were the four colorful ghosts in the iconic arcade game Pac-Man.  By today’s standards, they weren’t particularly smart, and yet they seemed to pursue me with cunning and intent. This was decades before neural networks were used in video games, so their behaviors were contr…