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Billions connected around the world

By 2020, approximately 20.4 billion devices are estimated to be connected to the internet. These IoT devices are getting smarter, connecting to intelligent applications, such as Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri, and helping consumers make transactions and complete tasks. However, they are also sparking conversational AI, and it stands to change customer service.

Explore conversational AI, its benefits and challenges,

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Conversational AI consists of an advanced technology that uses natural language processing (NLP) so that computers can comprehend human language. Conversational AI includes a variety of technologies, such as chatbots, advanced notifications and personal assistants.

What Is Conversational AI?

Technical Challenges

Conversational AI is not without its challenges. Some of the technical challenges conversational AI faces include enhanced user interfaces. For example, product browsing lacks support due to the single-column layout of many chat messaging canvases

Also, there is a lack of organizing the various bots in a directory. Moreover, bots still require time to learn patterns of human behavior and speech, such as the correct use of pronouns, to provide a user experience that is natural and effortless.

Key Benefits

Organizations can use conversational AI in several ways, including via chatbots, and there are myriad of benefits you can leverage from conversational AI that will change customer service.

It Will Reduce Costs and Increase Efficiency

AI assistants can discover errors with accuracy better than humans. Also, these digital assistants can be available to service customers at any time of the day. This will help reduce the need for human resources, reduce costs and operate efficiently.

It Will Help Drive Sales

Conversational AI helps to drive sales through personalization. This especially the case in online and mobile shopping, where the experience can seem impersonal. However, chatbots and AI that generate personalized content have turned e-commerce from a static customer experience to a dynamic conversation that has given birth to conversational commerce. Thanks to NLP’s integration into messaging apps, conversational commerce can help businesses drive sales.

It Is Applicable Across Several Industries

Conversational AI is not limited to one industry. It can be applied to almost any industry, including banking, fashion and education. Enterprises are already putting conversational AI technology in motion now.

Conversational AI Will Change Customer Service

With all of the benefits that conversational AI brings to businesses, conversational AI will change customer service in a variety of ways. Businesses will be able to serve customers faster. Businesses can also shift and develop frontline staff to creative and strategic roles, such as managing and developing the chatbots. This strategic move can enhance customer service, and help enterprises leverage their employees’ knowledge and skills to profit from the company’s digital investments.

Chatbots can access customer data via the cloud and use big data to quickly and accurately review the customer’s transactional or communication history. This allows the chatbot to create an enhanced experience for the customer since it would be knowledgeable of the situation.

Customer service representatives who may not be as quick as a chatbot to analyze this data may actually hamper the customer’s experience by causing them to wait even longer than they already have so that the agent can review the account. The customer’s time is important. Therefore, it is wise to incorporate technology that will help save you time, such as a chatbot.

Conversational AI will provide enterprises with benefits, but consumers as well. Chatbots can help personalize experiences for customers. It is even helping them learn new foreign languages. Customers can bypass the need for passwords and log into their accounts with ease using voice recognition systems. Customers will also be able to conveniently speak to digital assistants to receive updates on their accounts and their financial assets or to receive advice. Enterprise leaders should consider incorporating technologies that leverage conversational AI within their AI strategies to stay competitive and provide an enhanced customer experience.