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How AI Is Personalizing Customer Service Experiences Across Industries

06/09/2024

Customer service departments across industries are facing increased call volumes, high customer service agent turnover, talent shortages and shifting customer expectations.

Customers expect both self-help options and real-time, person-to-person support. These expectations for seamless, personalized experiences extend across digital communication channels, including live chat, text and social media.

Despite the rise of digital channels, many consumers still prefer picking up the phone for support, placing strain on call centers. As companies strive to enhance the quality of customer interactions, operational efficiency and costs remain a significant concern.

To address these challenges, businesses are deploying AI-powered customer service software to boost agent productivity, automate customer interactions and harvest insights to optimize operations.

In nearly every industry, AI systems can help improve service delivery and customer satisfaction. Retailers are using conversational AI to help manage omnichannel customer requests, telecommunications providers are enhancing network troubleshooting, financial institutions are automating routine banking tasks, and healthcare facilities are expanding their capacity for patient care.

What Are the Benefits of AI for Customer Service? With strategic deployment of AI, enterprises can transform customer interactions through intuitive problem-solving to build greater operational efficiencies and elevate customer satisfaction.

By harnessing customer data from support interactions, documented FAQs and other enterprise resources, businesses can develop AI tools that tap into their organization's unique collective knowledge and experiences to deliver personalized service, product recommendations and proactive support.

Customizable, open-source generative AI technologies such as large language models (LLMs), combined with natural language processing (NLP) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), are helping industries accelerate the rollout of use-case-specific customer service AI. According to McKinsey, over 80% of customer care executives are already investing in AI or planning to do so soon.

With cost-efficient, customized AI solutions, businesses are automating management of help-desk support tickets, creating more effective self-service tools and supporting their customer service agents with AI assistants. This can significantly reduce operational costs and improve the customer experience.

Developing Effective Customer Service AI For satisfactory, real-time interactions, AI-powered customer service software must return accurate, fast and relevant responses. Some tricks of the trade include:

Open-source foundation models can fast-track AI development. Developers can flexibly adapt and enhance these pretrained machine learning models, and enterprises can use them to launch AI projects without the high costs of building models from scratch.

RAG frameworks connect foundation or general-purpose LLMs to proprietary knowledge bases and data sources, including inventory management and customer relationship management systems and customer service protocols. Integrating RAG into conversational chatbots, AI assistants and copilots tailors responses to the context of customer queries.

Human-in-the-loop processes remain crucial to both AI training and live deployments. After initial training of foundation models or LLMs, human reviewers should judge the AI's responses and provide corrective feedback. This helps to guard against issues such as hallucination - where the model generates false or misleading information, and other errors including toxicity or off-topic responses. This type of human involvement ensures fairness, accuracy and security is fully considered during AI development.

Human participation is even more important for AI in production. When an AI is unable to adequately resolve a customer question, the program must be able to route the call to customer support teams. This collaborative approach between AI and human agents ensures that customer engagement is efficient and empathetic.

What's the ROI of Customer Service AI? The return on investment of customer service AI should be measured primarily based on efficiency gains and cost reductions. To quantify ROI, businesses can measure key indicators such as reduced response times, decreased operational costs of contact centers, improved customer satisfaction scores and revenue growth resulting from AI-enhanced services.

For instance, the cost of implementing an AI chatbot using open-source models can be compared with the expenses incurred by routing customer inquiries through traditional call centers. Establishing this baseline helps assess the financial impact of AI deployments on customer service operations.

To solidify understanding of ROI before scaling AI deployments, companies can consider a pilot period. For example, by redirecting 20% of call center traffic to AI solutions for one or two quarters and closely monitoring the outcomes, businesses can obtain concrete data on performance improvements and cost savings. This approach helps prove ROI and informs decisions for further investment.

Businesses across industries are using AI for customer service and measuring their success:

Retailers Reduce Call Center Load Modern shoppers expect smooth, personalized and efficient shopping experiences, whether in store or on an e-commerce site. Customers of all generations continue prioritizing live human support, while also desiring the option to use different channels. But complex customer issues coming from a diverse customer base can make it difficult for support agents to quickly comprehend and resolve incoming requests.

To address these challenges, many retailers are turning to conversational AI and AI-based call routing. According to NVIDIA's 2024 State of AI
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