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Terry Savage: Artificial intelligence can improve call center experience

  • The speaker experienced a power outage and used PG&E's automated system to report it successfully from home.
  • The outage prompted several calls to the utility's virtual assistant Peggy, who handled after-hours reports with limited options for callbacks.
  • The speaker eventually received a callback from an agent named Bill after multiple attempts, but interactions with Peggy sometimes caused frustration.
  • AI applications are expanding beyond utilities, as seen with Social Security planning AI call centers and eHealth using an AI agent named Alice to guide Medicare choices.
  • These AI tools aim to improve efficiency and user experience in call centers, though users may initially resist interacting with virtual assistants.
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Terry Savage: Artificial intelligence can improve call center experience

Does the concept of artificial intelligence intimidate you? Or do you figure it won’ t have much impact on your life, so why bother learning about it? For example, the new Social Security commissioner, a former tech payments CEO, has…

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The Billings Gazette broke the news in Billings, United States on Thursday, June 5, 2025.
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