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Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course
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My company gets a lot of incoming chats from customers (and potential customers)
The challenge of this side of the business is 98% of the questions asked over chat are already answered on the very website that person started the chat from. Like it's all written right there!
So real human chat agents are reduced to copy paste monkeys in most interactions.
But here's the rub. The people asking the questions fit into one of two groups: not smart or patient enough to read (unfortunate waste of our resources) or they are checking whether our business has real humans and is responsive before they buy.
It's that latter group for whom we must keep red blooded, educated and service minded humans on the job to respond, and this is where small companies can really kick ass next to behemoths like google who bring in over $1m per employee but still can't seem to afford a phone line to support your account with them.
Yeah, I always found it weird how chatbots were basically a less efficient and less reliable way to access data that's already on the website but all the companies were racing to get one. People kept telling me that I'm in the minority in being able to find information on a webpage, but I suspect the sort of people who are too dumb to do that aren't going to have much better luck dealing with the quirks and eccentricies of a chatbot either.
Most of the time when I talk to a chat bot it's because I need to contact support for an issue only support can help me with, but unfortunately the company in question is Id.me and they apparently don't have support of any kind and all these tickets I've been writing have been going into a paper shredder
Replace all the customer facing employees with chimpanzees with webcams that say in sign language: read what's on the website. Whenever someone calls in or opens a chat, they're connected with a chimp. Be sure to also include a guide to ASL on the company website. I guarantee sales will go up