why aren't all 6 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 3 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2030
Eggemeier: 80% of customer interactions will be automated within 3-5 years
“We think about 80% will be automated within the next three to five years, leaving 20% of those interactions still to go to a human being.”
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2030
Eggemeier: Human support headcount will remain flat despite 80% AI automation
“And so what we think is going to happen to our interactions are going to go massively up. We're going to help companies automate 80% of them, and you're going to have about the same amount of human beings that you had before in the human agent role because of …”
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Eggemeier: Bot-to-bot customer support interactions will arrive within 12 months
“Alexa talking to an AI agent that's, you know, powered by Zendesk, I really think that's gonna come over the next six or 12 months, and we're gonna have some really, really cool use cases where, The consumer is there using their own bot to interact with a comp…”
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2030
Eggemeier: Customer service interactions will surge 3x to 5x within five years
“So we have a point of view that interactions are gonna go up between three and five X. The next three to five years.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Eggemeier: Personal bots contacting companies do not work yet, but will
“I think there's a little bit of a hype right now about you having your own personal bot contacting the company. I don't think that's working really, really well yet, but it's going to come.”
Prediction Held up
Eggemeier: Zendesk will have over 20,000 AI customers by year-end
“We think we're gonna have over 20,000 AI customers by the end of the year.”