Conversational AI

Conversational AI is technology that holds natural conversations with people, via chat, messenger, or voice. It understands the intent behind a message, replies in dialogue, and keeps track of the conversation history. In customer service it sits behind AI chatbots and assistants that answer around the clock over WhatsApp and other channels.

What is conversational AI?

Conversational AI is the umbrella term for AI systems that can hold a real conversation. Unlike a rigid menu with fixed buttons, conversational AI understands freely worded messages, replies in natural language, and follows the course of a conversation across several messages.

It is the technology behind modern AI chatbots and voice assistants, and thus a central building block for automated customer service and sales over messaging channels.

The building blocks

Conversational AI brings several technologies together:

  • Language understanding. NLP and NLU recognise what the customer means, regardless of phrasing.
  • Answer generation. A Large Language Model phrases the answer in dialogue.
  • Context. The system remembers what was said before and responds to it appropriately.

An example from practice

An online pet-supplies shop gets dozens of WhatsApp messages in the evening: “When is my order coming?”, “Do you also have the food in 12 kg?”, “How do I cancel?”. Conversational AI answers these recurring questions immediately, references the relevant order, and only hands off to a team member when things get personal, for example with a complaint.

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