Tony Bates

6 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 11, 2026 by Tony Bates · across every show →

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Sep 11, 2026 neutral
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Bates: AI won't fundamentally change business models, only interaction fluidity
“The business model itself won't fundamentally change. The fluidity of how you interact with it will.”
Tony Bates Sep 11, 2026 ▶ 14:12 Is The Future Customer Experience AI Talking To AI? — With Tony Bates
Sep 11, 2026 positive
Insight
Bates: Companies must onboard and manage AI like human workers
“The way that folks need to think about it inside their businesses is that it's one talent system. It's one set of resources. You have to onboard the AI in the same way you do an information worker. You need to performance manage the AI in the same way you do a…”
Tony Bates Sep 11, 2026 ▶ 13:32 Is The Future Customer Experience AI Talking To AI? — With Tony Bates
Sep 11, 2026 neutral
Insight
Bates: Conversational AI interfaces are currently in their MS-DOS moment
“I feel like on the user interface side of where we are we're kind of in our MS-DOS moment right now. We haven't had our Windows moment, and I don't think that it's necessarily going to be a Windows interface, but typing into a chatbot or talking into a chatbot…”
Tony Bates Sep 11, 2026 ▶ 16:59 Is The Future Customer Experience AI Talking To AI? — With Tony Bates
Sep 11, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bates: Personal AI agents will score businesses using learned user preferences
“As your own AI is learning more and more of your preferences, it's going to use that as part of its scoring.”
Tony Bates Sep 11, 2026 ▶ 20:00 Is The Future Customer Experience AI Talking To AI? — With Tony Bates
Sep 11, 2026 positive
Opinion
Bates: Companies are already prepared to handle consumer bot swarms
“As you think about in many, many ways, I mean, people have been combating bots that are, you know, coming in and just swarming social media networks just to kind of make sure they get enough click throughs and so on. So I think companies are ready for that, th…”
Tony Bates Sep 11, 2026 ▶ 15:49 Is The Future Customer Experience AI Talking To AI? — With Tony Bates
Sep 11, 2026 neutral
Insight
Bates: Personalization requires individual intent understanding, not demographic targeting
“Personalization is not targeting. And that's kind of like in the ad tech world is like, well, we'd create personas. That's not personalization. That's taking a group and treating them the same way. Personalization is understanding Why you want something, and g…”
Tony Bates Sep 11, 2026 ▶ 22:53 Is The Future Customer Experience AI Talking To AI? — With Tony Bates
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