AI / Phone implementation

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extraT

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1,828 posts

157 months

Friday 15th March
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Does anyone know if it’s possible to train an AI (day ChatGPT) to ASK (not answer) a simple set of questions on a live call?

E.g call from customer > answered automatically >live AI chat bot asks questions > answers transcribed and sent to a specified email address

Just an idea I had and ironically can’t seem to find answers on ChatGPT!


KAgantua

4,255 posts

138 months

Friday 15th March
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AI has a large wealth of possibilities. It is a modern and efficient way of performing business.

paulrockliffe

15,998 posts

234 months

Saturday 16th March
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Google told us a few years ago that we were going to be able to ask it to book a haircut for X day and time and they would ring round the local barbers and drop the appointment into our calendar. Never happened though, but surely it can't be far away now.

thebraketester

14,710 posts

145 months

Saturday 16th March
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extraT said:
Does anyone know if it’s possible to train an AI (day ChatGPT) to ASK (not answer) a simple set of questions on a live call?

E.g call from customer > answered automatically >live AI chat bot asks questions > answers transcribed and sent to a specified email address

Just an idea I had and ironically can’t seem to find answers on ChatGPT!
I don't think that would require AI to be honest

Blown2CV

29,546 posts

210 months

Saturday 16th March
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extraT said:
Does anyone know if it’s possible to train an AI (day ChatGPT) to ASK (not answer) a simple set of questions on a live call?

E.g call from customer > answered automatically >live AI chat bot asks questions > answers transcribed and sent to a specified email address

Just an idea I had and ironically can’t seem to find answers on ChatGPT!
you might have to write some code to do it but at least on AWS there are products that can do speech to text so you could form it into an API call to GPT. If you're talking about doing it in 'real time' i am not sure how that might work.

Terminator X

16,337 posts

211 months

Saturday 16th March
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If it's anything like the current automated call systems then it should go in the bin. The most frustrating 10mins of my life every time I encounter one.

TX.

Blown2CV

29,546 posts

210 months

Saturday 16th March
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generative AI is st at policies and rules. It just says what is linguistically plausible based on the contents of its LLM. You can't say to it, here is a document containing the only things you need to know about our company policies, as then it isn't a LLM and won't work like GPT. Bit of a catch-22 but most people haven't quite cottoned onto this yet.

Mr Whippy

29,937 posts

248 months

Tuesday 19th March
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AI to email?

Shirley you'd want it straight into a database on a server that can then have things done to it.


Or are you sending personal/confidential/business data from customers on unencrypted email over the internet?

Isn't that now considered bad practice with GDPR and all that jazz?



I'm not sure I get the logic of having AI call people up. If that business puts such little value in that call that it needs a computer to do it, then what is my motivation to deal with that business?
You'd have to be the cheapest out there by a fair margin to find this acceptable?

Blown2CV

29,546 posts

210 months

Tuesday 19th March
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it's a bit like deliberately forcing customers who ring the company into a phone menu which results in them having to hang up without being dealt with.

Aunty Pasty

727 posts

45 months

Tuesday 19th March
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paulrockliffe said:
Google told us a few years ago that we were going to be able to ask it to book a haircut for X day and time and they would ring round the local barbers and drop the appointment into our calendar. Never happened though, but surely it can't be far away now.
Google IO 2018. I was there when they showed it on stage. Probably a curated demo after a large number of trials. Haven't heard anything about it since.

Blown2CV

29,546 posts

210 months

Tuesday 19th March
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Aunty Pasty said:
paulrockliffe said:
Google told us a few years ago that we were going to be able to ask it to book a haircut for X day and time and they would ring round the local barbers and drop the appointment into our calendar. Never happened though, but surely it can't be far away now.
Google IO 2018. I was there when they showed it on stage. Probably a curated demo after a large number of trials. Haven't heard anything about it since.
i was the person that the robot called up.

donkmeister

9,253 posts

107 months

Tuesday 19th March
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KAgantua said:
AI has a large wealth of possibilities. It is a modern and efficient way of performing business.
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Well played, sir.

Blown2CV

29,546 posts

210 months

Wednesday 20th March
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Gen AI really does have an obvious way of speaking doesn't it?

Mr Whippy

29,937 posts

248 months

Wednesday 20th March
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eBay “AI” wrote the description for my 3rd Gen Apple TV advert recently.

What a ridiculous use of AI, valuable processing power and energy used up to write a load of fake excitement and platitudey nonsense.

I’m tempted to see what it comes up with for a bunch of old rope. Or a dead cat.

It’s utterly bizarre as it stands out, and once again leaves me questioning the users motive.

- Either trying too hard which is off putting. I know what I want, I just want facts about it. Ie, how old. Any faults. Not just generic info.

- Can’t be arsed writing their own description, so how much do they care about the item/sale/packaging/resolving issues if needed etc?

- Will blend into all the other “AI” written bullst and leave you having to increasingly trawl through word soups looking for the actual valuable info.

Just like watching a YouTube video for 10 mins for that 30s it’d actually require to deliver the info.


AI should be transparent, the fact it’s already thrown in your face and you can spout it’s annoying presence suggests it’s going to turn into nothing except a cheap and inferior replacement for humans/businesses who can’t be arsed to do a decent job.

vaud

52,400 posts

162 months

Wednesday 20th March
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Aunty Pasty said:
Google IO 2018. I was there when they showed it on stage. Probably a curated demo after a large number of trials. Haven't heard anything about it since.
Google use it all the time for their own use - to validate opening times, etc for businesses on Google Maps.

Bullett

10,973 posts

191 months

Thursday 21st March
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It's an updated version of an IVR. Usually called an IVA - Intelligent Virtual assistant/agent.

If all you want is to ask questions then transcribe into text you don't need AI.

The AI makes the whole thing dynamic allowing you to actually handle the query - look up an account balance, answer a question about a feature function etc. You'd hook it into backend systems via API like a CRM or knowledge base.