The Secret to Winning Customers’ Hearts With Artificial Intelligence
Add Human Intelligence
Introduction
Artificial intelligence (AI) is giving customer experience a shot in the arm. Organizations are increasingly adopting conversational chatbots for providing customer service. Airports around the world are investing in mobile androids that help travelers with directions. Hotels are experimenting with voice-assisted in-room controls.1 A Microsoft social chatbot in China, “Xaiolce,” already has over 200 million users, with 600,000 calls made in the first ten months since its launch.2
How consumers engage with businesses is evolving dramatically. As we saw in our earlier research into AI use cases, organizations are using this technology to achieve a range of business goals, such as: influencing sales, boosting operations, driving customer engagement, and generating insights.3 To understand AI’s impact on customer experience in particular, we have conducted this worldwide, cross-sector research:
• The aim: to explore how consumers perceive AI and which interactions they believe could be better delivered by humans, which by AI, and which by a mix of humans and AI.
• The approach: consumers may be unaware of how their data is used for AI or even when they are liaising with a chatbot instead of a human. To ensure, therefore, that wereceived informed responses from the 10,000 consumers were surveyed, we made sure that our definitions were very clear, and consumers understood the different situations where AI is being used as an intervention, or as a means of augmenting. We also surveyed over 500 executives from leading organizations, in addition to conducting focus group discussions with consumers, and interviews with industry experts and academics. The research methodology at the end of this report provides further details.
We found that consumers are increasingly more aware of when AI is being used by organizations; consumers like it, and they are becoming more prescriptive of when and how it is used alongside humans. In this report, we:
1. Explore how consumers think about AI and their expectations from organizations while interacting via AI
2. Assess how organizations use AI for customer experience and where they are missing the mark in terms of what consumers want and expect
3. Recommend strategies for augmenting the customer experience in an AI world.
人工智能赢得顾客心的秘诀
增加人类智力
介绍
人工智能( AI )正在给顾客体验一剂强心针。组织越来越多地采用对话式聊天机器人来提供客户服务。世界各地的机场都在投资移动机器人,帮助旅行者指路。酒店正在尝试语音辅助室内控制。1中国的微软社交聊天机器人“Xaiolce”已经拥有2亿多用户,在推出后的头10个月里有60万次呼叫