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Artificial Intelligence Life Chat
sasha uritsky
Dec 31, 2016

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AI unmasked: Why long-term success of your business depends on conversational AI
For a business to grow successfully, it needs to scale its sales, customer service, marketing.
The only sustainable way to do this is to introduce an automated sales and customer experience service.
Conversational AI is the single available method to automate customer experience without reducing the quality of service. It comes in a variety of forms such as a chatbot, voice bot, virtual assistant, cognitive agent. They all share the scaling ability and the ability to deliver human-level quality of conversations.
MAKING AI MAINSTREAM
We are experiencing a strong demand for conversational AI solutions. It is coming from every corner of the B2C market. It is growing by the day.
Conversational AI is becoming increasingly popular among the consumer facing business community. It is easy to see why - AI offers sales and customer service scalability and therefore is critical for the long-term success of a business.
Conversational AI solutions such as chatbots, voice bots, and virtual assistants provide much needed speed and efficiency, in an age where the rapid advancement of technology makes them virtually the only sustainable customer service solution.
Bu there is a catch - AI is complicated. Mainstream businesses do not have in house AI expertise. And it is not part of their business model to develop such expertise.
Today’s market offer several good conversational AI solutions, such as IBM Watson or Google DialogFlow. However, getting a business value out of them requires the very AI expertise that mainstream companies do not possess.
So what can be done?
Any AI solution should follow these three steps in order for the mainstream business community to fully benefit from it:
- Conversational AI should come as a service,
- The service should be available in natural language,
- The service should be fully personalized.