Mahesh Ram, founder and CEO of Solvvy, set out to “give everyone back time”. His company was recently acquired by Zoom to improve customer experiences using conversational AI. Mahesh was inspired by his work using speech recognition to improve business English learning at Global English. Solvvy was founded in 2015 and has raised funding from an exceptional group of investors including previous “AI and the Future of Work” guest Rory O’Driscoll from Scale Venture Partners.
About the three waves of chatbot technologyWhy “more deflection” doesn’t need to translate into “lower satisfaction”How Calm uses Solvvy to deliver automated customer serviceWhy AI based on semantic similarity is better than traditional scripted chatbotsWhy “putting the user first” and “not hiding the live agent” is essential for gaining consumer trust in chatbotsHow to address latent bias in data used to train AI modelsWhy bots will never replace live agentsReferences in this episode…
Rory O’Driscoll from Scale Venture Partners on AI and the Future of WorkSolvvy acquired by ZoomChandra Khatri from Got It AI on AI and the Future of Work