Our Perspective

Our Perspective

Our Perspective

Our Perspective

Jan 20, 2024

Since the arrival of ChatGPT, virtually every company has been trying to replicate its success in enterprise settings.  There are many purported uses: with some form of customer interaction leading the charge.  There have been many declarations of victory-led by Klarna’s bold announcement a year ago that its AI Assistant was handling two-thirds of customer conversations.  These claims notwithstanding, it is hard to find a customer who has had a tolerable experience with a Chatbot, let alone a satisfying one.  I haven’t succeeded in getting one to tell me if my return has been processed!  Why?  Some of it is a matter of time-to assemble enterprise-specific content and have LLM’s use it intelligently.  But it is not clear how far that will get us.  As a customer, I care most about my purchases, my payments-which requires integration with structured enterprise data.   This may require more logical innovation than is currently envisaged.

 

Since the arrival of ChatGPT, virtually every company has been trying to replicate its success in enterprise settings.  There are many purported uses: with some form of customer interaction leading the charge.  There have been many declarations of victory-led by Klarna’s bold announcement a year ago that its AI Assistant was handling two-thirds of customer conversations.  These claims notwithstanding, it is hard to find a customer who has had a tolerable experience with a Chatbot, let alone a satisfying one.  I haven’t succeeded in getting one to tell me if my return has been processed!  Why?  Some of it is a matter of time-to assemble enterprise-specific content and have LLM’s use it intelligently.  But it is not clear how far that will get us.  As a customer, I care most about my purchases, my payments-which requires integration with structured enterprise data.   This may require more logical innovation than is currently envisaged.

 

Since the arrival of ChatGPT, virtually every company has been trying to replicate its success in enterprise settings.  There are many purported uses: with some form of customer interaction leading the charge.  There have been many declarations of victory-led by Klarna’s bold announcement a year ago that its AI Assistant was handling two-thirds of customer conversations.  These claims notwithstanding, it is hard to find a customer who has had a tolerable experience with a Chatbot, let alone a satisfying one.  I haven’t succeeded in getting one to tell me if my return has been processed!  Why?  Some of it is a matter of time-to assemble enterprise-specific content and have LLM’s use it intelligently.  But it is not clear how far that will get us.  As a customer, I care most about my purchases, my payments-which requires integration with structured enterprise data.   This may require more logical innovation than is currently envisaged.

 

Since the arrival of ChatGPT, virtually every company has been trying to replicate its success in enterprise settings.  There are many purported uses: with some form of customer interaction leading the charge.  There have been many declarations of victory-led by Klarna’s bold announcement a year ago that its AI Assistant was handling two-thirds of customer conversations.  These claims notwithstanding, it is hard to find a customer who has had a tolerable experience with a Chatbot, let alone a satisfying one.  I haven’t succeeded in getting one to tell me if my return has been processed!  Why?  Some of it is a matter of time-to assemble enterprise-specific content and have LLM’s use it intelligently.  But it is not clear how far that will get us.  As a customer, I care most about my purchases, my payments-which requires integration with structured enterprise data.   This may require more logical innovation than is currently envisaged.