Emotional breakdown – how Air Canada uses AI to improve customer relationships - Marisa Garcia

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Emotional breakdown – how Air Canada uses AI to improve customer relationships

• "Nasr says that this initial Alexa skills project lays a strong foundation for the integration of AI in other customer-facing applications. “A lot of what we’ve done with Alexa and RozieAi can be extended to other ecosystems, like Facebook and Google, so we are not re-building the entire solution for each of the ecosystems. It becomes more of an adaptation as required or as justified by differences from one product to the next.”
• Air Canada has also applied AI to product marketing through a collaboration with AI marketing content generation platform Persado. For example, by incorporating anxiety language, Air Canada has experienced up to 48% more opens of emails and click-throughs were almost 220% higher when it directed consumers to “see deals” versus to “book now” in the call-to-action button of the email.
• For Air Canada, part of the refinement of the conversion funnel, and of engaging CRM, is a prioritization of mobile which is in high demand by customers. This in turn means a prioritization of voice queries and chatbots.
• Air Canada believes AI is now an integral part of improving operations both in the back-end and customer-facing. Nasr says: “The question is: can the AI and other technologies be used to make it easier and better for our people to deliver service?"
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How e-commerce giants are using AI and marketing (Part 2) - Daniel Faggella

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How e-commerce giants are using AI and marketing (Part 2) - DanielFaggella

• "And going beyond keywords to search for products, eBay launched eBay ShopBot for its users. The app runs on Facebook Messenger and lets shoppers interact with a chatbot using text message, speech or image. According to eBay, the goal of the app is to provide the services of a personal shopper by giving tailored search results.
• Sunil Gopinath, CEO of Rakuten India, explains in an interview with Factor Daily that they use the same technology for different applications. Additionally, he said, “Out of over 70 services we have, almost 30 services will be enabled with AI chatbots by the end of [2017]. The objectives are to improve customer satisfaction significantly and also sales productivity. We’re partnering with IBM Watson to enable those AI chatbot engines.”
• Working on artificial intelligence has brought improvements in customer service, according to the company (Flipkart). A report in the Hindu Business Line on the company’s net promoter score (a measurement of a customer’s likelihood of recommending a company’s services or products) claims an increase of 14 percent in the middle of 2017, growth of 14 percent in customer resolution and a drop of 25 percent in customer pain. The company attributes these improvements to chatbots that were launched in April 2017."
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ABBYY launches AI-powered real-time recognition SDK that speaks 63 languages - Stewart Rogers

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ABBYY launches AI-powered real-time recognition SDK that speaks 63 languages

• The SDK helps developers incorporate real-world document data into their apps instantaneously.
• “Virtually any application that requires data entry from a printed source can benefit from a faster, more accurate, and effortless text recognition and classification,” Stoepetie said. “Integrated into finance, insurance, logistics, ecommerce, consumer, or government applications, the Real-Time Recognition SDK significantly speeds up complex identification, registration, or onboarding processes, such as opening an account, applying for a loan or entering bank card information, IBAN, or a promo code.”
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