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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

We handle support in our company as part of our day to day. By and large the bulk of support is people simply leaning on us, rather than relying on common sense, or using the docs. Only a small percent is what would be considered essential.

However, each industry is different. This is just ours.

Generative AI could easily help the bulk of our support load.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

We're experimenting with retrieval augmented generation for early inquiries right now. We get hundreds of inquiries that could be answered by looking at the website/docs and Q&A models with extractive or abstract approaches, or newer generative approaches are good at handling them.

Looked at four models last week, 2 vendors and 2 open source solutions, it's very promising. Very high accuracy with extractive approaches to simple queries, an email answering bot that links to our live website, along with an offer to talk to a real person could help us out a lot.