Start-ups and established tech firms alike have launched a volley of new products at the industry.
It’s not easy being a customer service agent – particularly when those customers are so angry with a product that they want to yell at you down the phone. That’s the sort of rage that Sonos, a maker of home-audio systems, encountered in May when it released an app update so full of glitches, it caused its share price to plunge.
One of the agents dealing with the ensuing customer tirades was a rookie. But not a human one. Prior to the debacle, Sonos had hired Sierra, a start-up co-founded by Mr Bret Taylor, the chairman of OpenAI, to provide it with a customer service bot powered by generative artificial intelligence . It could have been a disaster; the only thing worse than a malfunctioning product is being trapped in an automation prison by a robot giving you the runaround. Yet, the bot beat expectations.
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