Customer Support Agents
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Hsu: Realtime API pricing fits customer support displacement, not consumer apps
“The pricing model of the real-time API makes more sense for something like a customer support agent, where you're very directly replacing somebody that you would pay hourly otherwise, and that's how you're seeing the pricing model for a lot of these initial ag…”
Zhang: End-to-end voice AI falls short when complex tool use is needed
“Voice-to-voice, latency is great. Sometimes, though, with these production use cases, you do need the extra computation cycles. So, you know, fetch data, do multiple model calls or there's, there might be other reasons that you can't do voice-to-voice.”
Hamid: AI agents will replace human customer support within 10 years
“I think we will hopefully never talk to a customer support agent ever again. Like someone you call for the airlines, like, you know, help me my flight, I need to upgrade it, or I need to change my seat, or can you cancel it because I can't go? You know, the ba…”