While AI offers efficiency, many still prefer human interaction for complex customer service issues, prompting questions about a balanced approach that combines technology with empathy.
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Are brands right to allow machines to handle customer service?
Cannes Lions 2022: Dentsu Creative India wins third Grand Prix
‘The Unfiltered History Tour’ for Vice Media won the top award in the Social and Influencer Category.
The evolution of chatbots in marketing
Once a handy tool to automate customer service, they're now increasingly being tasked to do data collection and lead generation.
How a chatbot enticed new customers to Clarins Taiwan
CASE STUDY: Despite risks, Clarins and Isobar devised a chatbot-based system that quintupled new customers.
Teaching clueless chatbots the art of conversation
The gap between human expectations of chatbots and their actual capabilities means this field has a lot of development still to come.
YouTube, Spotify, Vice and more are embracing chat extensions
With brands finding new private avenues for communication, it’s time to reevaluate the potential of IM platforms.
Quartz: The future is friendly
Jay Lauf is on a mission to prove that quality digital journalism can succeed with ads that are tolerable. He’s also putting bots to work and hiring many more humans too.
Chatbots will change the way consumers interact with brands forever
The rise of bots is the wakeup call we all need to get our (brand) house in order. It forces us to index information in a way that a bot can readily access and understand. Mindshare weighs in on the conversation
If a bot hasn't chatted you up yet, one will soon
Tay.ai was a jerk, but future chatbots could make decent helpers and serve brands' needs as well.