AI chatbots are coming to your Salesforce applications and it looks like it'll all of them. Company executives had a lot to show off during Tuesday's Dreamforce 2023 keynote address, including major updates to both its Einstein AI and Data Cloud services. Einstein AI has received a slew of updates and upgrades since we saw it integrated with Slack back in May. The new Copilot service will take the existing AI chatbot and tune it to a client company's specific datasets using their Salesforce Data Cloud data. This enables the Einstein AI to provide better, more relevant and more actionable answers to employees' natural language questions and requests.

It's been two years since Salesforce formally introduced the Einstein AI platform that is supposed to help users find hidden insights within their data. At Dreamforce 18, some customers described how they have integrated Einstein AI capabilities into their business processes. Every Salesforce product has received some kind of Einstein AI upgrade, with more features rolled out with each product release. Companies like tire provider Michelin and Dublin-based recruiting company CPL are among the Salesforce customers that have found ways to use Einstein AI to help with productivity and revenue growth. "AI is there to enhance the human input," said Danielle DeLozier, global product owner for Service Cloud at Michelin, based in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is going to become a big part of the customer relationship management (CRM) space in the future. Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) estimates that AI-related CRM spending will jump nearly five-fold to $46.3 billion in 2021 from 2016 levels. This is why Salesforce is busy integrating AI features into its services, and its latest addition could help it attack a lucrative niche of the CRM space. Salesforce's Einstein AI platform has caught the limelight because of its ability to predict sales outcomes based on the data fed into it, but it can now do more thanks to a recent upgrade. It is now capable of taking on customer service chores after the addition of the Einstein Bots for Service feature.

Salesforce is rolling out customer service capabilities in the latest upgrade to its Einstein AI with the aim of making things easier for its clients. Up until now Einstein functioned as an assistant that aided Salesforce users in making predictions using the data collected from the company's SaaS platform with one version of the AI was also capable of making suggestions to customer service workers. With the latest upgrade though, Salesforce is expanding on its customer service offerings with Einstein Bots for Service which can automate routine service requests and enable frictionless agent handoffs. Customer service is often quite expensive for businesses because they have to train numerous employees who often tire of the tedious job quickly. This makes the whole ordeal even more costly and often leads to unsatisfied customers.

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Salesforce (CRM) held a small group meeting of less than 60 people at its headquarters in San Francisco last week where it announced that Einstein AI is now available to all its customers across sales, service, marketing, commerce and more, even going so far as to title the presentation, "The Year of Einstein." Salesforce also announced a strategic partnership with IBM to combine the power of Einstein and IBM's Watson to provide more insightful analytics for businesses. Salesforce clearly has big ambitions for Einstein AI. As the company says on its website, "Einstein is like having your own data scientist to guide you through your day." Einstein is a product of about $600 million in acquisitions and three years of internal development.

Like wood stacking up behind an arrowhead, Salesforce, Microsoft, Google and other tech titans are gathering behind artificial intelligence, or AI. More importantly, line-of-business executives (LOBs), the new shot-callers in tech, now expect AI to deliver real-world results, particularly in the contact center. All of this means tectonic change is coming, and just about everyone better brace for the impact. The contact center and other operations touching the customer are emerging as the sweet spots for AI in the enterprise. In a Forrester survey, 57 percent of AI adopters said improving the customer experience is the biggest benefit.

As of last month, Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft are all joining forces to create a new AI partnership called the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society. The collaboration, aside from having a lengthy name, will advance public understanding of AI, and agree on a list of standards for future development. Although there's currently a clear domestic trend, AI has uses that stretch beyond analysing the traffic. A number of companies involved with AI research are looking well beyond family applications. Right now, though, the immediate aim seems to be to get consumers to adopt AI as part of their everyday lives.

As of last month, Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft are all joining forces to create a new AI partnership called the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society. The collaboration, aside from having a lengthy name, will advance public understanding of AI, and agree on a list of standards for future development. Although there's currently a clear domestic trend, AI has uses that stretch beyond analysing the traffic. A number of companies involved with AI research are looking well beyond family applications. Right now, though, the immediate aim seems to be to get consumers to adopt AI as part of their everyday lives.

If there was any doubt that AI has officially arrived in the world of enterprise software, Salesforce just put it to rest. The CRM giant on Sunday announced Einstein, a set of artificial intelligence capabilities it says will help users of its platform serve their customers better. AI's potential to augment human capabilities has already been proven in multiple areas, but tapping it for a specific business purpose isn't always straightforward. "AI is out of reach for the vast majority of companies because it's really hard," John Ball, general manager for Salesforce Einstein, said in a press conference last week. With Einstein, Salesforce aims to change all that.