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Re:So you want to build your own open source chatbot by gostsamo on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:03AM (#36919893)
Bad for you and Shopify, but some organizations have a single place of documentation and users still fail to bother checking it. If something is not immediately obvious for them on the ui, they automatically want a phone call with tech support. add to it a small company with a small team of support staff and it turns into an unfair battle. so, every mechanism to resolve the user's issue before you need to involve a human is a tool to make everyone happy and maximally productive.
Re:So you want to build your own open source chatbot by viraptor on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:30AM (#36921220)
> some organizations have a single place of documentation and users still fail to bother checking it

It depends on the size is the org in question, but at some point docs existing and being indexed is still not enough to find them. On the extreme side of that, AWS has docs for pretty much everything - yet I often fail to find the right page, simply because there's too much content and there's lots of pages talking about related things but not answering my question.

Sometimes it's missing docs, sometimes it's lack of searching, sometimes the most viable path to the answer is through support. (Amazon has TAMs for that purpose)

Re:So you want to build your own open source chatbot by lancesells on Saturday July 29, 2023 @02:36PM (#36923138)
> add to it a small company with a small team of support staff and it turns into an unfair battle

Totally agree and I feel for any any support staff, small or large, as it is unfair. I guess my point is insanely large, highly profitable organizations probably have a UX problem along with a much larger greed problem. No one should be stuck chatbotting or having non-existent support if they are a paying customer with Google.

Re:So you want to build your own open source chatbot by gostsamo on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:05AM (#36930331)
The world is not big organizations only and ai chatbots are not substitute for proper tech support. Chatbots are the self help lane enabling the tech support to concentrate on the tickets about real issues.
Re:So you want to build your own open source chatbot by figassis on Sunday July 30, 2023 @06:13AM (#36929656)
Usually I just know which issues will be or not be in company documentation. I’ve never been wrong before, since every single time I reached out to support they needed to take action that could not be competed by a customer alone. One example is how poorly many SaaS handle conversion from single to team accounts. Usually they end up having to create an entirely different account and make admin changes so I can reuse the email.