Customer Support Agents

topic on 4 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes

We Live to Build Latent Space No Priors 20VC

5 statements about Customer Support Agents, every show

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…”
Andrew Hsu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 48:17 Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak
NO PRIORS Insight
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.”
Jesse Zhang Jan 16, 2025 ▶ 15:25 No Priors Ep. 97 | With Decagon CEO and Co-Founder Jesse Zhang
20VC Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2034
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…”
Mamoon Hamid Oct 21, 2024 ▶ 11:56 Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
WE LIVE TO BUILD Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2026
Foster: Thousands of startups will be built to replace customer support agents
“Thousands of companies are probably going to like get established using AI to try to replace customer support agents, right?”
Ben Foster Jul 20, 2023 ▶ 23:46 AI Predicts the Next Word. It Cannot Predict the Next Car.
WE LIVE TO BUILD Assertion Partly supported
Weisbrot: AI brought support agents to six-month proficiency in one month
“People who had been around in the company for one month were performing as well as, if not better than people who weren't trained that way, who had been at the company for six months.”
Sean Weisbrot Jun 14, 2023 ▶ 27:03 People Logic Found a Signal in Our Tools We Never Knew to Look For

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