Goedel, Agentic AI and Contact Center Operations: the importance of augmenting human knowledge with AI.
Will AI replace contact centers? Many believe AI, including Agentic AI and AGI, will eventually eliminate the need for customer support managers and service agents. However, a practical and theoretical objection challenges this prediction.
On the practical side, the deployment of chat and voice bots for simple tasks has led human agents to focus on more complex issues, increasing call handling times. The theoretical analysis, referencing Goedel's First Incompleteness Theorem, highlights the undecidability of problems like Halting and Acceptance.
In a recent paper, "LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live With This," authors S. Banerjee, A. Agarwal, and S. Singla emphasize that LLMs can produce structural hallucinations, reinforcing the need for human involvement to overcome information incompleteness. Therefore, AI MUST be viewed as an augmentation for workers, enhancing productivity rather than replacing them.