“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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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

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