Chatbot technology is now commonplace, found everywhere from smart speakers at home and consumer-facing instances of SMS, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, to workplace messaging applications including Slack.
Chatbot technology is now commonplace, found everywhere from smart speakers at home and consumer-facing instances of SMS, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, to workplace messaging applications including Slack. The latest evolution of AI chatbots, often referred to as “ intelligent virtual assistants” or “ virtual agents,” can not only understand free-flowing conversation through use of sophisticated language models, but even automate relevant tasks. Alongside well-known consumer-facing intelligent virtual assistants—such as Apple's Siri, Amazon Alexa, Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT—virtual agents are also increasingly used in an enterprise context to assist customers and employees.