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This is a series of blog posts that we at Sapling are composing on meaningful conversational insights into customer support conversations. For more, please subscribe below. Knowledge workers—such as support agents and inside sales representatives—need onboarding and training so that they can best respond to customers. Even with the best training and learning management systems, however, agents will still often need to sift through the company knowledge base in order to determine the best response…

Interactive Voice Response has existed since the 1970s. Autonomous cars using neural networks were first developed in the 1980s. When will conversational chatbots deliver? This post discusses old and recent AI developments and makes the case for human-in-the-loop AI for customer conversations from the perspectives of technology development, user experience, and business learnings. Motivation/Context In recent years, automation has been a trending topic. With advances in artificial intelligence, particularly in a subfield of machine learning termed…