Knowledge bases are a common component of customer support services. They’re designed to answer as many questions as possible, which eliminates the need for human agents in some situations. This can offer better customer support at lower costs, but there’s a big problem with this kind of solution: they lack real-world solutions.
The Problem with Knowledge Bases
Knowledge bases might be useful in letting humans find answers to their questions, but they’re not very efficient at it. Natural language questions require more than a boolean lookup. Humans can do this by matching the question in their mind to concepts they have stored.
Computers, however, struggle with this problem, which makes them unable to answer such human-like questions. Natural language AI helps solve the biggest problem with knowledge bases (the inability to match meaning) by working fluently with human language and concepts.
The biggest problem with today’s knowledge bases is the same one that existed when they were first invented: they’re boring. The facts and figures in a knowledge base are devoid of anything that might resemble a personality. They lack the spark of life.
Details about products, articles, or events are often presented in a list format. When you ask a question, you get an answer from a list. For example, if you ask Siri to find you a pizza place nearby, it’ll respond by listing off some local places. It’s up to you to figure out which one is closest or best for you.
In fact, that’s exactly how most people use Siri—to get quick answers to specific questions. The reason is simple: it takes too much effort to learn how Siri works and then apportion your requests appropriately.
It’s also very hard to remember every command and every nuance of the system; users have already complained about this issue in Amazon Alexa conversations. While we like to think of Siri and Alexa as super-powered AI assistants, they do act more like standard knowledge bases.
Using the Power of AI and NLP to Improve Knowledge Bases
Korra’s Approach to AI Knowledge Bases Are the Future
Businesses know that maintaining an accurate knowledge base is important for their success. However, keeping them up to date is often a very time consuming, manual process.
With Cognility, this problem is finally going to be solved; AI will do most of the work for you, without requiring a team of data entry people to keep your knowledge base relevant and up-to-date. Our technology is the future of insight engines, providing direct answers based on content within documents like PDFs, videos, audio tracks, and more.
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