Amazon AI Chatbot Technology
Amazon’s AI Chatbot Has Evolved Over the Years
To become the “Earth’s most customer-centric company,” with growing demand and customer base, Amazon has developed more and improved ways of interacting with customers. Back in 2020, Amazon tested an AI Chatbot to help customers receive the help they needed, faster. The then-new technology was created using 5 million conversation-response pairs from over 350,000 conversations to generate unique responses that can answer customer queries with greater sophistication. This wasn’t just a breakthrough for customer service but also had greater technological implications as well.
“To help our customer service agents provide support in new regions and with new customers, we’ve begun testing two neural-network-based systems, one that can handle common customer service requests automatically and one that helps customer service agents respond to customers even more easily,” said Jared Kramer in an Amazon blog post.
Jared broke down the technology in a way that many of us are (painstakingly) familiar with; you start a customer service chat, hoping for a quick resolution, but end up with a scripted, automated response that renders a useless experience. “Most text-based online customer service systems feature automated agents that can handle simple requests, ” Kramer says. “Typically, these agents are governed by rules, rather like flow charts that specify responses to particular customer inputs. If the automated agent can’t handle a request, it refers the request to a human customer service representative.”
Since 2020, AI Chatbots have gone mainstream, with Open AI’s ChatGPT quickly becoming one of the most used services around the globe, with incredible, though still cautious, professional applications. And Amazon has remained competitive, continuing to optimize its natural language models like Amazon Lex.
Amazon Lex
A fully managed artificial intelligence service, Amazon Lex uses advanced natural language models to design, build, test, and deploy both voice and text conversational features in applications. Integrating with AWS Lambda, Lex efficiently triggers functions for the execution of your back-end business logic for data retrieval and updates. These bots can be deployed in your contact centers, chat and text platforms, and loT devices, providing rich insights and pre-built dashboards to track metrics and KPIs.
Leveraging the groundbreaking power of Generative AI & Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance the builder and customer experience, Amazon Lex can be used to provide automated responses for frequently asked questions, analyze customer sentiment, generate summaries of conversations, and route calls appropriately. This new generation of AI-powered assistants provides a seamless, self-service experience that delights customers with human-like chatbot interactions.
Amazon Lex is infusing Generative AI at every level of the builder and end-user experiences to maximize containment while resolving increasingly complex use cases. Some other common use cases can include:
- Self-service voice assistants and chatbots – build a call center bot
- Informational bot – build an automated customer support agent or bot that answers questions
- Application/Transactional bot – build a stand-alone pizza ordering agent or a travel bot
- Enterprise Productivity bot – build custom bots to connect to enterprise data resources
- Device Control bot – use Amazon Lex to issue control commands to connected devices
Amazon Q
Amazon Q generates code, tests, debugs, and features multistep planning and reasoning capabilities that can transform and implement new code generated from developer requests. Amazon Q also makes it easier for employees to get answers to questions across business data — such as company policies, product information, business results, code base, employees, and many other topics — by connecting to enterprise data repositories to summarize the data logically, analyze trends, and engage in dialogue about the data.
Examples of services in the Amazon Q Suite include:
- Amazon Q Business — a generative AI–powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems.
- Amazon Q Developer — assists developers and IT professionals with all their tasks: from coding, testing, and upgrading applications, to diagnosing errors, performing security scanning and fixes, and optimizing AWS resources.
- Amazon QuickSight — customers get a generative BI assistant that allows business analysts to use natural language to build BI dashboards in minutes and easily create visualizations and complex calculations. Additionally, business users can get AI-driven executive summaries of dashboards, ask data questions, and create detailed and customizable data stories highlighting key insights, trends, and drivers.
- Amazon Connect — uses real-time conversations with customers alongside relevant company content to automatically recommend what customer service agents should say or what actions they should take to better assist customers.
- AWS Supply Chain — inventory managers, supply and demand planners, and others can ask and receive intelligent answers about what is happening in their supply chain, why it is happening, and what actions to take. They can also explore what-if scenarios to understand the trade-offs between different supply chain choices.
With near-daily advancements in Artificial Intelligence, Amazon will no doubt continue to produce new and exciting opportunities to leverage this emerging technology to help grow your brand. To help you not only grow but flourish in this new business environment, Macarta is here to help. We are a multinational full-service marketplace agency specializing in retail media to drive growth and sustained success for our brand partners. Reach out to us here, and let’s get started!