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    <description>The latest articles on Forem by Bill Neely (@novatrope).</description>
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      <title>Talk to Our AI Phone Agent — Live Now (and We're Looking for Pilot Partners)</title>
      <dc:creator>Bill Neely</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forem.com/novatrope/talk-to-our-ai-phone-agent-live-now-and-were-looking-for-pilot-partners-1288</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Our AI Phone Support Agent Is Live — Give It a Call                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   When a caller presses 1 for support, here's what happens under the hood:&lt;br&gt;
                                                                                                                                                                                     1. Asterisk hands the call to a Python AGI script                                                                                                                                  &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The caller speaks — Deepgram nova-2 transcribes the audio in real time                                                                                                          &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The transcript goes to Anthropic Claude, which generates a concise, context-aware response                                                                                      &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;OpenAI TTS synthesizes the reply and plays it back to the caller                                                                                                                &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Repeat until the issue is resolved — or escalated to a human                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The AI handles activation guidance, plan questions, device compatibility, and general troubleshooting. When it can't help, it transfers to a live agent. After each escalation,    it learns from the agent's handling of the call and gets better over time.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            No hold music. No phone trees. Just a conversation.&lt;/p&gt;




&lt;p&gt;Try It Yourself&lt;br&gt;
                                                                                                                                                                                     Call 877-692-4004 and press 1. You'll be speaking with our AI agent — live, no appointment needed.&lt;br&gt;
                                                                                                                                                                                     ---&lt;br&gt;
 Looking for Pilot Partners&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  If your business takes repetitive inbound support calls, we're looking for companies interested in piloting this kind of system. Drop a comment or reach out at                    &lt;a href="mailto:bill@novatrope.us"&gt;bill@novatrope.us&lt;/a&gt;.                                                        for companies interested in piloting this kind of system. Drop a comment or reach out at&lt;br&gt;
  &lt;a href="mailto:bill@novatrope.us"&gt;bill@novatrope.us&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Can AI really learn from humans?</title>
      <dc:creator>Bill Neely</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forem.com/novatrope/can-ai-really-learn-from-humans-4j1g</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;After playing with AI for a couple of months, I wanted to see if AI could learn from humans and create its own help desk or call center. I was working with Anthropic's Claude, but I'm sure any other AI agent would work as well.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I wanted the AI agent to learn by listening to the human operators, and then taking over when it felt it had enough info. I already had a lot of experience with VOIP servers, so the link wasn't hard.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I have a test system up and running (You are welcome to try it by calling 1-877-692-4004). Hasn't learned much yet, since we are still early stage.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I would love to have your comments on the concept or implementation. And if you would like to participate in a more meaningful way, drop me an email at &lt;a href="mailto:bill@novatrope.us"&gt;bill@novatrope.us&lt;/a&gt; We could really use some extensive testing at this point.&lt;/p&gt;

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