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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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Bates: Consumers measure every brand against their best experience ever
“We're going to measure every company by the best possible experience that we've had.”
Tony Bates Sep 11, 2026 ▶ 2:43 Is The Future Customer Experience AI Talking To AI? — With Tony Bates
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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
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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
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