{"id":9222,"date":"2019-04-16T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=9222"},"modified":"2019-03-05T10:58:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:58:54","slug":"chatbots-interactive-customer-service-algorithms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/chatbots-interactive-customer-service-algorithms\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatbots: Interactive Customer Service Algorithms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chatbots are gaining popularity as the technology improves and as customers increasingly expect to get immediate and consistent responses to their questions and interactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many businesses that want to be able to provide 24&#215;7 support have deployed or are experimenting with using voice and browser-based chatbots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/go.forrester.com\/blogs\/17-04-20-the_data_digest_chatbots_cant_fully_replace_humans_just_yet\/\">Forrester Research<\/a> found that more than 60 percent of US adults interact with a voice or web-based chatbot on a regular basis.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/smarterwithgartner\/gartner-predicts-a-virtual-world-of-exponential-change\/\">Gartner predicts<\/a> that by the end of 2020 that chatbots will be able to handle 85 percent of customer interactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lauren-villeneuve-5a1597b\/\">Lauren Villeneuve<\/a>, advisor at Gartner , <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/en\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2019-03-04-gartner-survey-shows-37-percent-of-service-leaders-ar\">said that<\/a> &#8220;while bots and VCAs are still emergent technologies, many service leaders have been impressed with their potential. 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