Dukaan founder and CEO Suumit Shah revealed that 90% of the company’s support staff has been laid off after the introduction of an AI chatbot to answer customer support queries.
Dukaan founder and CEO Suumit Shah revealed that 90% of the company’s support staff has been laid off after the introduction of an AI chatbot to answer customer support queries.
The big problem with wanting to use AI (which generally means LLM these days) is that it lacks real creativity. If a problem isn’t documented, the AI won’t know what to do about a particularly difficult support request, or it will give wrong answers all together. My time in CS for tech taught me that the number of novel resolutions is far, far greater than most people realize.
Wouldn’t any automated system ideally escalate to the next tier of (human) support when it detects something complicated?
Though I agree with you, I don’t think LLMs are lay-off 90% good.
In my experience, this never happens. Since they have now very few human staff they make it VERY difficult to talk to a human to the point you often give up.
Why escalate when you can hallucinate!
First level support staff generally aren’t allowed to have creativity. They just follow the script and then pass the problem up when it’s something they can’t handle.
I would agree, this was my first thought.
Though if the product is sufficiently defined, and bounded, it might make sense. Think support line for a fridge, oven, or other less-open products. Unbounded spaces like general purpose computer support will initially struggle while documentation is built up.
often times it will get actual documented solutions wrong too.
is an example of the same type of concept implemented in the MDN
often times it will get actual documented solutions wrong too.
is an example of the same type of concept implemented in the MDN