“All chatbots are burning tokens when they are interacting with you. So when a complex question came to a chatbot, which it couldn't answer, and eventually got handed over to a person, you have spent money as a company at both places”
Anshuman Singh · Punk CX: Customer Experience Insights with Adrian Swinscoe · AI, architecture, and human judgment in CX - Interview with Anshuman Singh of HGS Europe
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What was described
identified that chatbots burn tokens on every interaction and that when a complex query fails, the conversation incurs cost both in token usage and in human hand-off
Said nearby on the same subject
“You land up burning more in tokens, depending on the model you are using, than it would cost you for a human to empathize with the customer, close the conversation to mutual satisfaction, and move on”
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Anshuman Singh
Punk CX: Customer Experience Insights with Adrian Swinscoe ·
“If you map our token indices on top of the bar chart… it’s almost a lead indicator… when you see our token indices ramp up, that’s when revenue starts ramping.”