We Want to Know... How Are You Using AI Today?!

I’ve been using AI for a couple of years, in various capacity. It’s something that I think will have huge benefits, genuinely, for businesses and employees. For me, I like to find ways of being productive - working smarter, not harder (to some extent). I do not use AI to “hack” my way around the work I have to do - but, be better at it - be that learning new ways to do something, or free up time on more mind-numbing, “easy” admin tasks, so that I can focus on delivering more important work like producing strategies, insights and actions.

For instance, I use a tool that cloned my voice. With that, I’ve written scripts and had the AI read that out loud as part of our internal training. As many of you will know, when recording yourself, it’s easy to go off topic, make a mistake, sneeze etc. With a script, you can remain on point, keep it interesting for your desired audience, and then produce a piece of content that doesn’t need as much editing.

We have employees within our organisation who are confident speaking to customers on the phone, but less so writing a statement on a public review site for the world to see. AI can be used to help those individuals move away from manually amending canned templates to creating bespoke, personalised and sympathetic replied that have taken into account the complaint and show the customer we care.

I also use a platform, built upon ChatGPT, that allows you to teach it your specific brand tone of voice and then anything you produce, is “on brand”. Chat GPT by default starts afresh each time you create a new chat.

There are a large range of tools coming soon which I’m keeping my eye on, which will change the nature of customer experience in the next 6 months.

We use AI to help sift through people reaching out for community tours/information. It seems to be VERY helpful for our community teams to cut back drastically on the time spent at the computer responding to several questions.

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I think its scary stuff

We use the AI tool in Reputation to assist us with replying to sensitive or complex reviews.

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Human element all the way

I feel AI is a unfortunate necessary evil for the review and reputation business. We get so many negative reviews from guests with unattainable expectations and that hurts us. As well as other business trying to curb your positive feedback too.

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Totally with you there @barbara.a.e.rozanski! It’s tough to balance replying to all reviews, good and bad. I’ve found most of the feedback about AI canned responses are that for some of the more specific, one-off review comments, it takes the guessing work out of it for your team. You can always customize it to sound more human, too :slight_smile:

I have used it to have some ideas in my work area, it is very useful in these cases but I think it will never have the ability to eliminate Human talent.

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We aren’t using AI at this point but I see it coming soon

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I use AI Composer when creating content. It’s simple, fun and fast!

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I have just started to use AI for my own purposes and have used BARD to get some information for a piece of work I have undertaken. I have found it extremely useful to verify my assumptions and articulate my proposal. Personally I believe AI can enhance CX and help with analysis, plus many other applications. For a customer perspective if using AI in chat or to respond to reviews there needs to be transparency. Presently there is no technical substitute for a human being and AI should just be a tool to assist not replace personal conversations and the need to empathy.

We are using AI for leasing only.

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Totally agree with this perspective @david.hart! I’ve also tested out BARD too, it’s interesting as new tools hit the “market” to see what resonates/performs best for your needs.

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Thanks Lauren - lots to learn about AI and how to use it to the advantage of customers and company’s alike . Over the years I have leant that there is no such thing as a “sliver bullet” solution. The key is to embrace the new and never to ignore it !

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I use CHATGPT to help respond to reviews and write blog post. It has been extremely helpful in my workflow.

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I’ve fiddled with AI (ChatGPT, Forefront) on a few of my side projects. I’m trying to stay abreast of what is happening in the field and what’s coming up, but I’m somewhat conflicted on the ethics.

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I’m curious how Reviews will change, given how easy it has become to generate fake text. Video reviews, despite the high barrier to entry, may become the norm (although that isn’t without its challenges given the normalization of deep fake technology)!

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I use AI to support in the generation of ideas and tone in copywriting, as it can sometimes feel a little ‘off’ or not to the point. This has helped when responding to vast amounts of reviews or customer service queries :slight_smile:

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we use AI mainly as a chat bot on our websites right now. As a writer, I have explored it a bit, but have to admit I have a tendency to prefer writing organically.
it is impressive how sophisticated chat GPT etc. are though!

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We are using AI in chatbots on some of our sites to provide prospects information before setting up a call with a live person (when necessary).

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