Robots have taken over customer service jobs to replace humans in the alternate universe of Customer Service Bot’s Rules for the Drive-Thru, written by Cinna Jude and directed by Krystal Glover. The ...

One red-hot category in the generative AI space is customer support, which isn’t surprising, really, when you consider the tech’s potential to cut contact center costs while increasing scale. Critics ...

Learn how to bypass frustrating AI customer service chatbots and reach a human by using specific trigger words and calling ...

Customer service is being automated. Will bots take over those jobs? Forrester analyst Christina McAllister advises companies to keep human agents involved in those calls and chats. That’s because ...

Airbnb started rolling out an AI-powered customer service bot in the U.S. last month, CEO Brian Chesky said during the firm’s first-quarter conference call on Thursday. Chesky said 50% of Airbnb’s U.S ...

You’re gonna love me for this. Say you’re calling customer service because you need help. Maybe your bill is wrong, your service is down or you want a refund. Instead of a person, a cheerful AI voice ...

The cloud software company is aiming to meet the changing customer service needs of consumers with its new blended conversations tool. SaaS provider Zoho has launched several new tools for Zoho Desk, ...

Companies use often-annoying chatbots to interact with customers. So here is what’s on my tech wish list: my own chatbot whose job is to deal with those annoying company bots. All the reasons ...

We all understand why companies want to offload their customer service to bots and hard-to-find remote “representatives” distributed all over the world: it saves money. The last resort of customer ...