By Beerud Sheth

Founder & CEO | gupshup.io

Dec 31, 2018

As 2018 draws to a close, it’s a good time to take stock of the year in the world of messaging and conversational experiences. Unlike prior years, this one is characterized by less hype and more progress. Developers have been quietly working away, far from the madding crowd, as messaging volumes grow massively and conversational experiences continue to pervade every aspect of human existence.

Over the last few years, mobile messaging usage has exploded. It now dominates smartphone usage. While consumer communication grew rapidly a few years ago, the more recent and interesting phenomenon is the rise of “messaging as a platform” – a platform for developers and enterprises to engage their customers and build advanced conversational experiences. Messaging and conversational experiences are gradually transforming every aspect of the human-computer interface.

Machine translation is on the rise. Google Translate, as well as other automated translation solutions like Bing Microsoft Translator, Babel Fish, PROMT, ImTranslator, have significantly improved over the years. With the help of neural networks and deep learning, they are now capable of translating more languages with better accuracy.

One of the notable aspects of machine translation is the use of bots. What are they? How are they related to search engine bots? Know the answers to these questions and more in the following discussions.

In this week’s blog, we thought of drawing your attention to a chatbot that does an excellent job at utilizing all the chatbot functionalities provided by Facebook while also being true to its roots

From chatting to conversing, the natural progression of assistants ‘sounds’ good

“Hey Google, how does the traffic look today”

“The roads are empty today you should reach for work earlier than usual”

This has become a common practice for households all across the world. Voice powered assistants have ‘quietly’ integrated with our lives. The world of voice-powered assistants are dominated by the likes of Alexa by Amazon, Apple’s Siri and the one we will be covering in depth for this blog….the Google assistant colloquially called hey google.

After being the talk of the town for successive google i/o conferences, ok google has solidified as a service ubiquitous with voice-powered assistants.  Google assistants are empowering smart homes and automobiles with the power of voice.

If you’ve been wondering how some chatbots have grown exponentially with regards pooling in  Daily active users in the thousands, reach and popularity ….well you would be surprised to know that they concentrate their efforts into solidifying the basics instead of dabbling all available means for promotions.

Well, now that you know what to do you would still be asking yourself how?

Like always we’ve got you covered!

Customer interaction is the key to success for brands. Whether it’s to drive sales, handle customer service issues, or foster and continue a relationship, two-way communication is critical. As these interactions occur, companies must do everything they can to collect and analyze useful data that delivers a problem-solving result, and artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to play an increasingly important role in this equation.

As AI solidifies its position as a cornerstone of innovation for businesses, it continues to evolve and adapt. AI is already improving our interaction with technology through different forms of machine learning that recognize patterns in data to predict future outcomes. It also has the capability to better understand the massive amounts of data and information that businesses search for and apply those predictions to automated tasks. One way that companies are applying this shift in technology and data processing is through chatbots.

Imagine this

You need to buy a diaper for your baby and you have no clue what brand, what make or quality? A diaper consultant reaches out to you. She attentively notes your requirements, carries out a feasibility study, checks price-fit and recommends a diaper you should go for. She processes your order and ensures delivery. And all of this under 30 minutes, impressive right?

Now imagine this- you own this diaper consultancy firm. How much do you think per conversion cost would be? Darn high!!!

Hey, there champ!

For this week’s blog, we thought of taking you down the memory lane

We’ve rounded the best blogs for your reading pleasure….Dig in!

With the rise of  “conversational experiences,” just about every business function—from marketing to commerce to support—must be redesigned to be conversational. The greatest impact felt due to conversational marketing is that businesses interact with far more consumer prospects than they do with paying customers. Each of us soon will be experiencing this as a target, if we aren’t already. Read more