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Will AI Render the Human Call Center Agent Obsolete?

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Studies have shown that the average consumer would rather interact with a live agent than a chatbot. Only 35% of respondents claimed that chatbots solved their problems effectively, while 77% felt that customer service chatbots were frustrating. Think HAL, the sentient computer from "2001: A Space Odyssey.”)

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A Bonus Lesson from Listen or Die

PeopleMetrics

Chatbots and endless IVR loops may scale, but they often do not deliver a great customer experience. He founded PeopleMetrics in 2001 and is the architect of the company’s customer experience management (CEM) software platform. Over the past year, another lesson has emerged that I would like to share with you. Sean holds a Ph.D.

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Contact Center AI – What’s out there?

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From the early days of Science Fiction and Kubrik’s groundbreaking 2001: A Space Odyssey to the more recent chess match between Deep Blue and Kasparov, AI has long captured our imaginations. Chatbots and voice AI agents can capture data from customer interactions and feed it into analytics software. Capturing Customer Data.

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Personalize your generative AI applications with Amazon SageMaker Feature Store

AWS Machine Learning

The applications also extend into retail, where they can enhance customer experiences through dynamic chatbots and AI assistants, and into digital marketing, where they can organize customer feedback and recommend products based on descriptions and purchase behaviors.

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11 Contact Center Technologies to Boost Customer Satisfaction

TechSee

Its intelligent knowledge base/self-service platform is powered by artificial intelligence, unified search, rich analytics, and machine learning. Founded in 2001, Fonolo’s cloud-based call center solutions provide companies with visual dialing and virtual queuing services. It just doesn’t get better than this.”.

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The Impact of and Opportunity for Virtual Agents on Call Center Outsourcers

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We've seen this before The Dotcom bust coupled with 9/11 was a cataclysmic event for outsourcers in 2000 and 2001. The industry had enjoyed rapid growth as a result of the millions of dollars pumped into Internet start-ups and their IPOs.