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LLM-powered virtual assistants, chatbots, and virtualagents promise to become the new faces of customer experience automation. This could be by automating common tasks performed by agents, or by augmenting agent knowledge and training with virtualagent assistants.
In our previous blog in The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Series , we discussed how virtualagents, or bots, are transforming the contact center workplace, pushing live human agents to become strategic troubleshooting experts and managers to become agent coaches. But what about the bots?
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