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A History of Customer Support Technology

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Companies began using Facebook for marketing and promotion shortly after the platform expanded beyond college students and was opened to the general public in September 2006. Chatbots and virtual assistants powered by AI became increasingly popular for handling routine inquiries, providing 24/7 support, and improving response times.

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Prepare for the Chatbots – an example of Digital Customer Experience Innovation by Elena Lockett

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Chatbots – computer programs that mimic conversations with users by using artificial intelligence (AI) – are the latest technology trend to hit the webchat world. Now, these chatbots weren’t just created so we could have more ‘people’ to talk to – they have a purpose. How long have Chatbots been around?

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Helping AI Help Agents: A Better Way to Use AI Applications in the Contact Center

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It was 2006 and it was way ahead of its time – providing omnichannel agent desktop capabilities long before the concept of “omnichannel” was formed. AI applications come in many flavors – conversational AI for chatbots, robotic process automation (RPA), intelligent virtual agent assistants, and email auto responders.

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5 Ways to Apply AI and Win Back Business

CSM Magazine

Facilitating customer self-service using automated contact channels, such as IVR and chatbots is a recognised method of reducing strain on contact centers during spikes in demand. Deploying a range of chatbots, each suited to a specific task, can greatly enhance the customer experience and deliver substantial benefits to the business.

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How to Stay Close to Customers While Working From Home

CSM Magazine

The webinar participants were asked whether insurers were using technology such as chatbots and conversational AI to triage customer enquiries coming into the contact centre, so that routine enquiries could be answered via a digital assistant, allowing contact centre colleagues to focus on the most critical calls.

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There’s No I in Team, but What About AI?

CSM Magazine

One customer support agent describes how she is able to use a chatbot template to answer planning queries, even though this falls outside of her specialism. A recent case study from Aylesbury Valley District Council describes this scenario perfectly. McGloin originally hails from Southern Ireland and is now based in Boston Massachusetts.

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Advanced RAG patterns on Amazon SageMaker

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answer = wrapper_store_faiss.query(question=PROMPT.format(query=query), llm=llm) print(answer) AWS, or Amazon Web Services, has evolved significantly since its initial launch in 2006. There was no monitoring, load balancing, auto-scaling, or persistent storage at the time.