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Weird argumentation. The ultimate differentiator is that LLM, with proper management, can give you a definite, exact answer to your very specific question. Thi
by maxdo 2y ago
Weird argumentation.
The ultimate differentiator is that LLM, with proper management, can give you a definite, exact answer to your very specific question. This is also a usability boost; it's like moving from a landline phone to a mobile phone from a usability standpoint.
The entire chatbot history is a path towards making support better and more accessible because human agents cost a lot. In fact, the entire chatbot business has to compete with the cheapest human agents on the planet.
You can clearly see NLP-gen bots evolution. From a basic how to reduce the load on human agents to cover the top 100+ questions by bot.
The current LLM generation of bots will evolve into pre-AGI bots, which will be very informative and capable of answering 1000+ questions.
The improvement is 100x, at least. This is HUGE. The numbers are just average, but the limiting factor were levels of efforts to manage these bots.
People who wrote and read the article have a professional deformation/bias.
We are all advanced Google search users or even represent businesses that depend on Google.
The majority of the population on earth is still not very good at doing online research to just solve their basic problems. They trust phone calls, tiktok recommendations and sometimes chatbots, sure. They will prefer anything but not complex googling and digesting large amounts of information.
LLM-powered bots are also much easier to manage, including capabilities of bots actually doing something, e.g., making requests to DB, etc.
Even pre-AGI chatbots, with their 100x+ improvement, will cut a huge amount of what we use to call web2.0/3.0.
LLM is just a vehicle that eventually standardizes content mechanisms. It will cover every aspect of content creation,update, moderation, analytics, and delivery, including, but not only delivery through a chatbot.
Such a change will be as different as the pre-internet media vs the social media era.
We used to think that the Western world is a cutting edge of every single trend globally. In fact only western world is still living in pre-chat world where websites are the main engine of information exchange.
Look at Wechat, Telegram, and Line with their billions of auditory. LLM-powered chatbots will bring the lagging Western world, which used to be golden billion, into modern world reality. This article is just a mental resistance to what's imminent.
- gregw134 2y agoNice sentiment, but are you using chatbots now and having a positive experience with them?
- maxdo 2y agoSome of them, sure. Some of them are very bad. But it's not the bots are bad. The bot experience = $_investment * tech efficiency. I've been in the chatbot industry for the last 6 years. If you disable event past-gen NLP bots, millions of people will never be able to talk to a human agent or get any support at all. Unless companies invests 10x-100x more in customer care. Even companies like Apple, in a premium segment of margins, use community forums and bots to manage their level of support. LLM bots will bring us to a different reality when you can have 100x better customer support with the same level of investments. And btw, that's why google is also moving this way.
- gregw134 2y agoMy only experience with chatbots outside of Chatgpt/Google was with comcast yesterday, in which it tried to convince me for hours that it was a human fixing my internet connection, and I just had to wait patiently. Comcast mixed together real humans with bots, so you never knew if you're just talking to a human helping you or a bot, just that you're in the seventh ring of hell for customer support. I'm souring quickly on the concept
- mike_hearn 2y agoSwissCom do this well. When you sign up you can get a discount if you agree that all your support requests have to go via a chatbot first. Or rephrased, you can agree to pay more to get priority access to human support. So the ISP cuts you in on their savings - fair. I plopped for the chatbot, then I had a problem. My apartment is wired weirdly, long story. The chatbot was very clear that it was a bot, it worked well, and it only took a few minutes of chatting before it decided to escalate to human support. The human support called me, so I didn't have to pay any phone bill, and they did it within a few minutes of bot making the decision to escalate. All in all it was pretty satisfying. Comcast's version sounds ... less satisfying. The arXiv paper is really the cherry on top.