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You don't need chatbot tech to be indistinguishable from strong AI, just indistinguishable from an average salesperson. Like babyshake, I firmly believe that th
by mrb 4y ago
You don't need chatbot tech to be indistinguishable from strong AI, just indistinguishable from an average salesperson. Like babyshake, I firmly believe that this will happen one day. 10 years? 50 years?
- HeyLaughingBoy 4y agoYou seriously think a salesperson can be replaced by a chatbot?
- lupire 4y agoOK, sure, but handwaving enough, that's true for almost every job that exists today.
- woooooo 4y agoFYI for you and other readers, sales is actually hard. Low barrier to entry followed by brutal survival of the fittest. Don't meet your quota? Fuck you, you're fired. People who survive for decades of that aren't trivially replaced.
- ghaff 4y agoOr as was put to me once, sales managers have no problem firing people. And that includes people who just had the bad luck to have their supporter at some company leave and be replaced by someone who favors a competitor. Or a project just gets put on hold because of budgets. I suspect many developers wouldn't appreciate being evaluated every quarter in no small part on factors that they have at best limited influence over.
- mrb 4y agoYou underestimate future AI tech (from 10-50 years from today) even more than you think I underestimate sales skills. The tech will completely blow your mind away, and you don't even see it coming ;)
- adamckay 4y agoAt that point why would you even have AI sales? If this tech is going to be so amazing, it'll be better served by being a procurement/buyer system. "Hey AI, what CRM system should I use [based on all the knowledge you have of my business already]?"
- startupsales 4y agocorrect, no need for salespeople
- Spooky23 4y agoAzure chatbot: Dynamics E7
- manigandham 4y agoI suggest you actually try and sell a product once before making this kind of prediction.