The benefits and limitations of chatbots are a major talking point in retail. Retailers have been using rudimentary artificial intelligence software to replicate the kind of human interactions that people are used to having over the phone to a call centre. Facebook in particular has been shouting about how chatbots are a game-changer for customer service, and is already integrating …
Making sense of chatbots
‘Chatbots’ have popped up all over the internet this year. Applications have varied from customer service to a chatbot lawyer that offers to resolve parking disputes. Victor Trokoudes, co-founder of Plum, spoke to Courier about his savings platform that deploys its particular mascot, the Plumbot. How did Plum get started? Alex [Plum’s co-founder] was downloading his bank statements and …