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I wonder if it would actually materialise, consisting the recent case where an airline company's AI chatbot promised a refund that didn't exist, but were expected to uphold that promise.

That risk of the bot offering something to the customer when the company would rather they not, might be too much.

It seems more likely that companies will either have someone monitoring it, and ready to cut the bot off if it goes against policy, or they'll just use a generated voice for a text interface that the client writes into, so they don't have that risk, and can pack more customers per agent at a time in.

AI can only give you the options it was programmed to give. A Human is able to actually think and find a solution or direct you to a solution. Your options are less with AI for customer service. AI works best for applications that it is tailored for. But expecting it to "think" like Humans do is so far off. AI is being fed so much biased information and that is not "thinking" or learning.

They also hate the idea of phone trees. Companies don't care unless we make them not care.

The only good thing about is that, with most companies, if you need a refund for something under $10, it generally just gives you the refund and sets you off on your merry way.

If AI is better than the existing voice-prompt systems, then I'll take it, but I doubt it will be.

Uber drivers are unphased by this.

In other news, the sky is blue

could have told you this considering they also hated the days of "press or say your issue now".

But to be fair, most AIs surveyed thought it was great!