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Articles tagged ai-chatbot

Can a chatbot really replace live agents? Mostly no: a large dark rectangle with a brand-coloured doorway cut into it and an arrow leading out to the right
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Can a chatbot really replace live agents? Mostly no

A chatbot takes the questions that repeat and whose answers are already written down. That is most of the volume and almost none of the difficulty, and the difference is the whole argument.

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AI chatbot for website: what it is and how to pick one: a large dark circle with two thin elliptical orbits around it and a brand-coloured dot on the outer orbit
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AI chatbot for website: what it is and how to pick one

An AI chatbot reads your own pages and answers questions from them. What that really means, the four kinds on the market, what each costs, and when you should not install one.

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Best AI chatbot for a website: how to actually choose one: a staircase of dark steps rising to the right with the top step in the brand colour
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Best AI chatbot for a website: how to actually choose one

Every product in this category claims accuracy, speed and easy setup, so those words separate nothing. Here is what does, measured against the install and review data rather than the pricing pages.

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How to create an AI chatbot for your website: the real steps: a faint blueprint grid on a pale ground with a dark outline of a page layout and a brand-coloured highlighted block
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How to create an AI chatbot for your website: the real steps

Installing takes five minutes and every guide stops there. The work is what comes after: what it reads, what it must not, and what it does when it does not know.

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How much does an AI chatbot cost? The four pricing shapes: a row of dark bars growing taller left to right with one tall brand-coloured bar and a dashed grey baseline
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How much does an AI chatbot cost? The four pricing shapes

The number on the pricing page tells you about an average month. The shape behind it tells you about your worst one, and only one of those is worth comparing.

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AI bot that knows my inventory: what actually has to connect: a row of dark bars growing taller left to right with one tall brand-coloured bar and a dashed grey baseline
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AI bot that knows my inventory: what actually has to connect

Knowing your stock is not one feature, it is four levels, and which one you need depends entirely on how fast your numbers move. Getting this wrong makes a bot confidently wrong about the thing customers care most about.

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What happens when an AI chatbot cannot answer a question?: a wide gauge arc in grey with a brand-coloured segment and a dark needle pointing to the right side
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What happens when an AI chatbot cannot answer a question?

Three things can happen and only one of them is acceptable. This is the behaviour worth testing before you buy anything, and almost nobody tests it.

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How do I train an AI chatbot on my own data? You mostly don't: rounded dark and brand-coloured blocks sliding from a loose stack on the left into an aligned column on the right
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How do I train an AI chatbot on my own data? You mostly don't

Training teaches a model how to sound. Indexing teaches it what is true about your business. Almost everyone asking the first question actually wants the second.

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How to use AI for website customer support: what to automate first: a four by three grid of white tiles with thin grey borders and one filled brand-coloured tile
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How to use AI for website customer support: what to automate first

Start with the four questions that arrive every week and whose answers are already written down. The order you automate in decides whether anybody trusts the result.

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Are AI chatbots GDPR compliant? The four decisions that decide it: a large dark circle with two thin elliptical orbits around it and a brand-coloured dot on the outer orbit
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Are AI chatbots GDPR compliant? The four decisions that decide it

GDPR never mentions chatbots. It governs personal data, and a visitor's question is personal data. Compliance turns on four decisions you make at install time, not on a badge on a pricing page.

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