Augmenting customer services with chatbots Part of Nightingale HQ's #AIFightsBack seminars Watch on youtube: https://youtu.be/8uW3QC-JAvY Presented by Steph Locke, CEO @ Nightingale HQ T: https://twitter.com/theStephLocke What are chatbots? > Bots are the new apps. People to-people conversations, people-to-digital assistants, people-to-bots, and even digital assistants-to-bots. That’s the world you’re going to get to see in the years to come. [Satya Nadella, quoted in USA Today] The distinction between terms App = A Graphical User Interface to perform tasks Digital Assistant = A Speech User Interface to perform tasks Bot = A Text User Interface to perform tasks Chatbot usecases aka When is a chatbot appropriate? - Knowledge queries - Text(ish) interfaces to apps - Middle tier between apps and voice Live demo (hosted until mid-May 2020): https://nightingalehq.ai/bot-demo General use case - Organisation: WHO - Who: Viber - Action: Create an information and basic symptom checking bot - Result: Multi-lingual COVID-19 information myth busting E-commerce use case - Company: Letterbox Lab - Who: Mia, our data science apprentice - Action: Set up a bot using Chatfuel to integrate in the company’s Facebook page - Result: An extra sale from Facebook in the first day Successful bot projects aka How do you make a bot? - Address demand - Start small - Conversational design Recommended technologies aka What software do I need for bots? - Microsoft Bot Framework - AWS Lex - Chatfuel Conclusion aka What should I do next? Use cases - Inform - Act - Integrate The process Resources 7 Quick-win AI Projects paper Our Chatfuel How To post Getting started with bots Conversation design