In today's episode, Luke Budka, AI Director of Definition, discusses the use of Conversational AI in public relations and communications. He explains how his agency has integrated AI into their services and the benefits it brings to clients. Luke emphasizes the importance of understanding use cases and leveraging conversational AI to enhance tone of voice and communication strategies.
He also highlights the rapid advancements in AI technology and the potential for autonomous AI agents. Luke concludes by inviting brands to explore the possibilities of using conversational AI to differentiate their communication approach.
Takeaways
- Conversational AI can be used to enhance public relations and communications strategies.
- Understanding use cases and leveraging AI to enhance tone of voice is crucial.
- Rapid advancements in AI technology are opening up new possibilities.
- The future may involve the use of autonomous AI agents in communication.
Chapters
- 00:00 Introduction and Overview
- 01:31 The Impact of Generative AI on the Company
- 04:35 Initial Use of AI and its Evolution
- 06:17 The Excitement and Challenges of AI in the Industry
- 08:59 The Future of AI in Agencies and Businesses
- 11:35 The Human Dimension in AI Development
- 14:14 The Need for More Resources in AI Development
- 18:47 The Role of Humans in AI-Assisted Communication
- 21:58 The Impact of AI on Society and Government
- 23:59 The Future of Conversational AI in Communication
- 24:57 Using Conversational AI to Improve Communication Strategies
- 27:20 The Importance of Language and Tone of Voice in Conversational AI
- 29:06 Contact Information and Conclusion
[00:00:00] Hello and welcome to the Conversational AI Podcast. Today we are talking public
[00:00:04] relations and communications and I'm joined by Luke and I'm going to ask Luke to give us an overview
[00:00:10] of himself and his company and we're going to get into the conversation. So look first off all,
[00:00:14] who are you? What's your background and then tell me about the company?
[00:00:18] Sure. So my name is Luke. I'm AI Director at Definition. My background is in tech comms,
[00:00:25] linguistics and content essentially. I was a founding employee, so I should say, of an agency
[00:00:36] called Topline Comms back in 2008 and we were a kind of B2B tech focused agency. We got acquired
[00:00:44] during the pandemic by definition. Definition is an agency on a buying bill mission so we buy
[00:00:54] agencies that have particular specialties that we don't basically. So we are the sum of
[00:01:01] I think six or seven different agencies now across London, Manchester and Leeds doing everything from
[00:01:06] PR comms, video, language training, customer experience, research, events like loads of
[00:01:14] different bits and pieces, internal comms, graphics and island brands and stuff like that.
[00:01:18] We are an amalgamation of lots of different agencies pretty much and that's what led
[00:01:23] us down the generative AI and the conversational AI route back in November 22 when chatGBT was
[00:01:30] acknowledged. Gotcha, because the world did change for quite a lot of us I think at the end
[00:01:37] of November then. Can I just before we get into it though tell us a little bit more about
[00:01:41] definition in terms of the type of clients. What kind of clients are you servicing?
[00:01:46] Sure. So I mean we've just done for example prompt engineering training with PepsiCo
[00:01:51] and then all the way to the small end of the spectrum we are working with a UK online tutoring
[00:01:59] company, a 20-man company and we've just finished what I think might be a world first
[00:02:05] which if you publish this before the next week you'll get exclusive but we've been fine
[00:02:11] tuning a version of Larmor 3 on explanations from fully qualified UK school teachers
[00:02:18] designed to teach key stage 3 and 4 maths in English by turning the training, turning the
[00:02:26] recordings between the teachers and the students that they've collected over the years
[00:02:29] into data we can use to train the model. So very much from the very big, big multinational
[00:02:35] companies all the way through to the kind of much, much smaller kind of 10-20 person
[00:02:40] type company depending on the brief pretty much.
[00:02:43] Am I right in thinking like an AI director is perhaps not something you tend to see
[00:02:49] even in today's world at an agency? Is that fair or you know?
[00:02:54] Yeah, I think so. So I invented the role pretty much right for me anyway because
[00:03:00] I went to our board in January last year and said two things firstly we need to lock down all
[00:03:05] uses of generative AI because I'm worried that we're leaking IP and we know all the inputs
[00:03:10] that are pushed into these models used to train the foundation models. We don't know who's putting
[00:03:14] what in so we're locking down across the organisation and then I said can we because
[00:03:19] we've got this bio-build strategy can we acquire a dev agency? Can we acquire an agency with data
[00:03:23] scientists and machine learning engineers because I'm very worried that in 18 months time
[00:03:27] everything we offer won't be a thing, will become extinct pretty quickly unless we
[00:03:32] pivot and mitigate the impact of this and we didn't acquire an agency but I went out and found
[00:03:38] a development agency and then kind of became the AI director in charge of developing our own
[00:03:43] proprietary solution and introducing AI services into all those different teams and services
[00:03:49] that we offer. I am now seeing it as a job title that's springing up across the industry
[00:03:55] and I've seen a couple of agencies recently appointing AI strategic strategists or AI directors
[00:04:00] and obviously you've got like the the four companies like WPP very much have these
[00:04:06] kind of job titles in their midst. For the uninformed like me when it comes to your industry
[00:04:15] I would assume that the base level panic is you can make a press release easier
[00:04:22] in three seconds with chat gpt right yeah the uninformed of you but would you flush that out
[00:04:29] massively look what you know how how were you initially thinking about the use of AI and then
[00:04:36] you know how is that moving though because you mentioned different teams and functions or so
[00:04:39] yeah I mean there's a couple of bits there to unpack so in terms of just working backwards
[00:04:44] to that question how are we initially thinking about AI I think probably the same way quite
[00:04:48] few agencies were which was we had a spreadsheet where we were logging our most successful prompts
[00:04:53] and sharing it with the team and we were all using them in chat gpt and we were doing things
[00:04:58] initially pretty basic stuff like yeah writing turn-based prompts that asked our employees for
[00:05:06] the information required to write a press release so the first thing the AI would ask you would be
[00:05:11] the name of the client and their domain name and then next thing it would ask you would be
[00:05:15] the 5w's the who what when where why they need to go the first paragraph of the press release
[00:05:19] and we found that like those turn-based conversations work quite well to produce
[00:05:23] decent content that didn't require much iteration and we quickly then started realizing that we
[00:05:28] can do things like create personas of different with different kind of social demographic
[00:05:34] like backgrounds and use it for brainstorming and do all kinds of things and it grew from there
[00:05:41] as I could go on and on and on about how it's grown from there but we're now a situation
[00:05:46] where we have our own in-house proprietary AI solution with a bespoke prop repository where
[00:05:52] staff can search through a bank of prompts and they will auto load in the correct AI model
[00:05:57] we know for example sonnet the claw 3.5 sonnet is better at writing certain types of content
[00:06:02] than gpt4 omni for example so the prompt will all run in that model so we've come quite a
[00:06:07] long way in quite a short period of time um yeah and ultimately I think the other thing
[00:06:13] is that we've had to tackle it in the order in which the industry has developed so yes obviously
[00:06:17] initially conversational AI chat bots language bots very good at next word predictions and very good
[00:06:23] at producing text very quickly moved into diffusion models very good at producing imagery but as and
[00:06:28] then we can move into kind of the world of audio and now we're soon going to be moving
[00:06:32] to the world of video and well we're already doing that but we're kind of all waiting for
[00:06:36] saura in these two minutes high fidelity video would be promised and yeah so we've kind of
[00:06:40] had to tackle it as it's happened um so as the as the industry's developed we've developed with it
[00:06:48] absolutely fabulous because that that must both be rather exciting but also well exciting with
[00:06:55] the different definitions of the word exciting right because you know a press release comes out
[00:06:58] from open AI here we go we're going this way guys well yeah it's a thrill it's the role
[00:07:08] jik it's quite difficult in a way but at the same time it's not because it's all very well
[00:07:13] signposted right but and but the other thing for us is that we've never we've never built at this
[00:07:20] scale and we've known and no one has ever built with this technology it's something my developers
[00:07:25] say to me my development team say to me look we're building this stuff that didn't exist six
[00:07:29] months ago so it's like a lot of learning going on on a daily basis but it strikes me
[00:07:36] while you're busy you know at the front end there the bleeding edge of you like not knowing the
[00:07:42] answer but discovering the answer I wonder that there's quite a lot of other agencies and practitioners
[00:07:50] way over there left behind here you know what's your assessment of yeah I think some are
[00:07:59] so when we went down right without being kind of we've built our own private environment
[00:08:04] that means we use our Microsoft entry logins we log into definition AI we've got a variety of models
[00:08:09] in there we've got we've got it does all kinds of things it transcribes it produces imagery and we've
[00:08:15] got bespoke proper positive trees we've integrated open AI's assistance now as well so we were at
[00:08:19] the very beginning of agents so we've got these assistants with bespoke instructions that use the
[00:08:23] code interpreter and the file search tools which is like rag and data analysis so we can now
[00:08:29] have like digital twins of our clients so we because you can attach up to 10 000 files using
[00:08:33] the file search functionality so we can have a digital twin of a client so we've now got AI members
[00:08:38] of the team that have access to all the clients information via a vector database it's all private
[00:08:43] and secure in our private environment so in a way yeah we've gone quite quickly and other agencies
[00:08:47] I'm now speaking to other agencies about building the equivalent thing for them yes
[00:08:52] the more exciting bit for me is where this now goes and just very quickly on that which I
[00:08:58] tangent so we've recently launched the ability to spin up demo environments so in our
[00:09:06] in our week what we can do is we can now so I can make you a conversational AI demo environment
[00:09:11] which will have your logo and it'll be on conversationalai.definition.ai.com you log in
[00:09:16] you've got a proper positive there with prompts in it that we've written for you right now the
[00:09:21] future for me is all our clients will have one of those environments and in it we will have a
[00:09:26] bespoke blend of pre-written prompts that are designed to solve their use cases will have fine
[00:09:33] tuned models that are designed to solve their use cases and then ultimately will have autonomous
[00:09:38] assistance agents sorry that are designed to solve their use cases they'll all be managed by us this
[00:09:44] end now this us managing this end is how we don't become redundant as an agency in my head
[00:09:49] yes at least it's just my opinion right but this is like the truth I preach which is we still
[00:09:54] our experts do the fine-tuning of the models to write the prompts our clients don't really care
[00:10:00] they just want to click a button it works so we do all the building we fine-tune the models we
[00:10:04] develop everything and then deploy it to their environments each client will have their own
[00:10:08] one with all their bespoke prompts and models and all the rest of it that's kind of where I'm
[00:10:12] going well where I want to go with it we've gone 60% of the way we can now do the demo
[00:10:16] environment piece and next year is going to be exciting does that mean look if I simplify
[00:10:22] radically yeah like I've often in the past to be in the pitch you know and then it comes to the PR
[00:10:29] agency that you know and Darren here will be your guy okay and then Laura here that's your team
[00:10:35] right can you can you envisage a time whereby it's essentially here is Paul your assistant
[00:10:41] right you know or Linda your your your your your employee or your digital employee yeah but
[00:10:49] then you'd have a support human support around that yeah I know answer right you're not right
[00:10:57] answer you know Linda will be emailing the client prompting them now that that's that's really like
[00:11:04] very very interesting very exciting we're not that's what we're already talking about I mean
[00:11:09] there's very obvious use cases a billion use cases for an hour right that's the most exciting
[00:11:13] thing about it but take a very practical example right so we use a there's plenty of these services
[00:11:18] around but we use something called response source which is where do you have exactly that how we were
[00:11:23] connected right yeah cool right okay so what if we have for example an assistant that is connected
[00:11:29] to our inbox yes and it has the file search bit turned on it's got all the client's data all the
[00:11:34] subject matter that's stop for a minute sorry I should have said to explain explain response
[00:11:40] just for those sorry yes yes because it's very important for this bit yeah yeah journalists
[00:11:45] send out inquiries they'll ask the request information via something called response source
[00:11:49] there's other ones called health report out Harrow if you just go onto Twitter and use the hashtag
[00:11:53] journal request you'll see lots of requests from journalists looking for information case studies
[00:11:58] all those bits and pieces so we get them directly into our inbox now we have a situation
[00:12:03] where we very soon may have a an assistant that will see the email come in from that address
[00:12:10] it will identify using its conversational abilities whether this particular client has something to
[00:12:17] say on it based on the files it has associated with it it will draft the response it will
[00:12:21] automatically email it to the client then it will send chase emails because it'll know when
[00:12:26] the deadline is because the deadline is on the response source initial email it will chase
[00:12:30] them and then it'll come back to our team and say the client is signing this off sending the journalist
[00:12:33] or we remove the humans all together okay maybe maybe in two years time is your your digital agent
[00:12:42] is talking to the client's digital agent we are yeah it's really cool really cool okay now the
[00:12:50] the human dimension here look how are you exploring that you're explaining this to your
[00:12:59] your pr teams your the professionals the communications professionals doing the front
[00:13:05] line day-to-day how have you begun that training or that that or that met you that methodology
[00:13:12] it's it's difficult man like bear in mind so initially it was a case of doing like kind of
[00:13:21] what is AI basic training with everybody in the company then it was a case of showing them how
[00:13:28] to use the proprietary solution we developed then it was a case of showing them how to use it
[00:13:32] better i.e. doing basic prompt engineering training with them showing them the basic
[00:13:35] tips and tricks and techniques they can use to get more out of the model or more out the models
[00:13:40] they're using now we're moving into a phase of we're currently undergoing undertaking a piece of work
[00:13:45] where we move between each team in each three offices and identify pain points and areas they're
[00:13:51] struggling with and then put a more kind of concrete plan in place i think the the issue
[00:13:57] will be that at the moment the AI team is me and two other people on a part-time basis
[00:14:04] plus a development team and and once again this is my opinion and the uh my company will
[00:14:09] not be surprised to hear me say this but i think we will quickly reach a point where we need more
[00:14:13] resource to chuck at this because what we want to be is a central function that supports all our
[00:14:19] teams at the moment we need to we're doing a deeper dive on understanding how we can do that
[00:14:23] i mean we've had other things in place as well like we have a prompt request form so anybody
[00:14:28] in the company can request a prompt our prompt engineering team will write on it upload it
[00:14:31] to that bespoke prompt repo test it let them know it's there they don't need to know how
[00:14:35] to write the prompt it's already there for them kind of thing we've got an assistant request form
[00:14:39] so they can request an assistant to do their qualitative analysis for example so the other
[00:14:44] day i was writing an assistant to help somebody move through free tech survey data and we the assistant
[00:14:49] looks for exact match names of a brand but also phonetic variations of it because it's that
[00:14:55] obviously it's conversation they are it can do that right like so we can look for like things
[00:14:59] like that as well so we've got request forms for different features of a bit sorry different
[00:15:03] assistants and prompts but yeah we're doing a deeper dive at the moment that will help us
[00:15:09] kind of inform our helping form our 2025 strategy when you're talking to clients
[00:15:14] i i would imagine that you would be blowing them away i mean is that is that fair
[00:15:22] is that a fair assessment because it sounds deeply impressive to me look i mean that sounds
[00:15:29] a little bit like i'm getting off on my own hype man like i don't say that i'd say i'd say that when
[00:15:36] you i'd say the biggest challenge and this is not news for anybody is understanding the use cases
[00:15:41] right is understanding how you can use it how it can do things for you and when you when you explain
[00:15:47] to a client when you get when i get excited about like so we integrated claw 2.1 right because
[00:15:53] it had a 200k contact window and the clients like nobody cares why right no this is wicked
[00:15:59] they're like why i'm like because look and i demonstrate and then we were like because
[00:16:03] we could include 15 award entries you've previously written in a prompt that now
[00:16:08] writes your award entries for you so when you when you help them realize the value when you show them
[00:16:13] it they're like all right that's why you're excited so like uh anthropic this week shipping
[00:16:20] an enterprise version of claw that's got 500k context window they were very keen to point out
[00:16:24] because obviously it's reams and reams of codes you're pushing in it if you're an enterprise type
[00:16:28] company like bringing it to life is what excites clients the things that excite me are not the
[00:16:34] same things that excite the clients the clients that get excited by the use cases by the fact
[00:16:37] that suddenly they're i mean in a sad way like they they don't need to use as many
[00:16:42] copyrights over here to do this thing because this can do it for example or
[00:16:46] they don't need to use as much translation agency resource because this can do it for example
[00:16:51] that's what it is is that so i hear you because that's a that's a sensitive question it's a
[00:16:57] sensitive issue but then um i would imagine there are there are emerging skills emerging
[00:17:05] types of discipline that you know you and the industry is going to need to hire
[00:17:12] yeah i think so i think i think a lot of i think people can i think people can i think a lot of
[00:17:22] people can reskill as well not just hire yes i think people who i work with internally think that
[00:17:29] there is a level of technical proficiency required to do things like prompt engineering and draft
[00:17:35] instructions for open ai's assistants and stuff like that and to a degree there is but it's not
[00:17:40] the bar's fairly low i mean if you understand that if you like xml tags you can write delimiters in
[00:17:45] prompts that and just basically at least and things and i think people are capable of way
[00:17:50] more than they think they are yes and they think they're going to therefore like struggle with it
[00:17:54] and actually i think a lot of it's going to come down to reskilling on our end at least um i don't
[00:18:01] know about other agencies or internally app clients i mean i've read like yeah i was reading a
[00:18:09] press release from zeta labs i think they're called the creator day autonomous ai agent called
[00:18:15] jakes i was reading one of their press releases from june yesterday and it just developed a
[00:18:21] mass tutoring company it built the product when it found the first customer and started billing
[00:18:26] autonomously so we're all in trouble um yeah i think ultimately there's a difference between
[00:18:33] me prompting a diffusion model for an image and Picasso doing it and that's the point
[00:18:37] i try and make internally which is the expertise doesn't we still need experts clients will still
[00:18:42] want to know that we've got experts who are overseeing these things who are fine-tuning
[00:18:46] the models with silent stuff off yes like i can't give a diffusion model the lighting
[00:18:53] composition camera angle all the rest of it that somebody who spent the last 15 years
[00:18:58] directing video shoots can for example so yeah it's a combination of reskilling but also
[00:19:03] understanding that like the human expertise won't will still be required yes i mean do you do you
[00:19:11] see a situation or is there a reality whereby you are constantly reminding team members that this is
[00:19:17] assisting you you know you will read the output for example right you know before it goes out
[00:19:24] before it goes to clients or how do you approach that yeah there is i'll be honest with you
[00:19:33] internally so we're about just don't think about 100 people big 110 people like um i spend so i
[00:19:42] we we very early on put things it what's the best way to go like we kind of put the uh
[00:19:48] the safeguarding in place the guard rails in place early on by making the point during our training
[00:19:53] that you wouldn't just send the press release or a guide from to sign off without getting the
[00:19:57] account director to sign off first nothing changes from that perspective gotcha gotcha yes
[00:20:02] so that's that's still the reality yeah it's just you're making things more efficient now
[00:20:06] right when you've got one AI that can check another AI's work then it ceases to become the
[00:20:10] reality it's going to get interesting isn't it well that's what's that's that's the whole
[00:20:16] that's the whole super alignment isn't it the the uh the over premise there is the super alignment
[00:20:20] team that open AI that disappeared isn't it they're weak AI to control the super AI because humans
[00:20:25] aren't capable of controlling it okay what are you excited by i mean we've had some hints
[00:20:30] there but if i was to ask you to itemize you know excitement what are you excited by
[00:20:38] from most to least the things that's like me the most um i think the thing i mean
[00:20:44] what day of the week is it i mean what yesterday we had ilia raising a billion dollars for a product
[00:20:50] that he doesn't intend to ship this is the former co-founder of open AI
[00:20:58] i'm a chief scientist yeah open AI yeah who's gone and started his own
[00:21:03] agi company to create safe artificial general intelligence his super intelligence yeah in fact
[00:21:08] he can click his fingers say i'm not going to ship anything for two years i want a billion dollars
[00:21:14] to sit in a room with my team for two years and work it out i find that phenomenally exciting
[00:21:18] yes i find it's very hard not to be excited by the rapid advancements in the
[00:21:24] autonomous AI world i mean this week i've seen everything from all terrors minecraft village
[00:21:31] that's populated with a thousand AI agents inventing religion and reward systems and all the rest of it
[00:21:36] and what excites me about that and i'll talk about this with my development team this morning
[00:21:41] there's a lot of these companies are doing it using existing models these are not the result
[00:21:47] of new advanced models this is the result of mixture of expert architectures where new where
[00:21:52] models are being blended together for greater they're greater than some of their parts right
[00:21:56] we have the japanese CEO open AI this week saying that gpt next will be 100 times more
[00:22:01] powerful than gpt 4 but i haven't used more compute to achieve that they've just re-engineered the
[00:22:06] architecture like it's so early doors now i would i should as a word of warning i have
[00:22:11] fully drunk the kool aid right i am i think the media i laugh when i see headlines about
[00:22:18] bubbles bursting and things because i think the media in general treat uh AI like the commerce
[00:22:24] revolution or the invention of social media yes i think they think it is a tech product right i don't
[00:22:30] think it's a tech product i am fully in the camp of this is a paradigm shift in society i think
[00:22:36] the reason governments take this as seriously as they do and we've seen like Singapore financing
[00:22:41] re-education for those over the age of 40 and the nsa in america taking very close
[00:22:46] notice of open ai's announcements this week yes because this fundamentally changes everything
[00:22:52] yes um so i am i am fully bought in i am 110% kool aid uh saturated um so yeah that's not for the
[00:23:01] fun of it though if i was to you know if i was to support that look it's not it's not you know
[00:23:05] it's not kool aid i do mean a lot of people that are very enthusiastic almost dare i say
[00:23:10] religious when it comes to ai and especially gen ai but you know i would imagine you're seeing
[00:23:16] the output benefit of it daily yeah your teams are seeing right it's not right so we can go oh
[00:23:21] that was a bubble we'll keep we'll keep that thank you because it's still it doesn't matter what yeah
[00:23:26] but also it doesn't matter what any of us sale do because this is never going to not be a thing
[00:23:31] right yes like my mate was saying to me this morning um who he sold his software company
[00:23:36] at the same time we got quiet so we chat about these kind of stuff and he's like aren't they
[00:23:40] isn't it true that open ai and google and Microsoft only done 40 billion sales but invested
[00:23:45] 500 billion in building stuff i'm like yeah it is but look how quickly ilia raised a billion
[00:23:49] by taking these things and not shipping anything yes and are you going you know uh is your agency
[00:23:55] when are you going to stop paying money to these companies yeah and like and if the private
[00:24:01] center investment dried up if the if the p went away the vcs went away governments would finance
[00:24:07] yeah yeah the american the u.s administration would happily fund it just like the chinese
[00:24:14] government is currently doing no this is not this is not a bubble this is this is this is something
[00:24:19] different um so that excites me the the kind of um the the advanced abilities with the current
[00:24:26] models and then the other obviously the big thing that's incredibly exciting because it's
[00:24:31] terrifying is the is the autonomous piece is the agents piece yes which is seems to be developing
[00:24:37] a rate of knots we've got research out recently showing that uh we have now have agents that can
[00:24:44] beat the average human web navigation for example where do you see opportunities
[00:24:50] in terms of conversationally i managing that that engagement that some of your clients are
[00:24:54] using your front end aspect yeah yeah sure i think i think the uh the reason so on my uh
[00:25:01] on my LinkedIn profile like my little tag that i came up with myself was uh uh don't look and sound
[00:25:07] the same right so like we have a language team at definition that is full of we have behavioral
[00:25:13] psychologists we've got linguists we've got some of the best language professionals in in the
[00:25:17] country right in this team and as such we do a lot of training with big companies around the
[00:25:22] world and we do a lot of tone of voice work and stuff like that now i think there's a big difference
[00:25:26] when it comes to conversation ii between setting up a chatbot and setting up a chatbot that speaks
[00:25:31] and talks in your tone of voice a tone of voice for example that has been shown empirically
[00:25:36] to reduce term rating customers or to uh reduce the amount of calls your customer service desk
[00:25:42] gets so a good example of that is uh and there's a case on our side that i can't remember
[00:25:46] exactly but i'm just on a tangent the beauty of the acquired is that i then get to work with
[00:25:51] these kind of companies so we got acquired we got put with another company called schwa that was acquired
[00:25:56] they're the team of language experts but they did some work for hsbc for example where they
[00:26:00] rewrote their customer health guides it reduced their calls to their customer health is their
[00:26:05] customer service help desk by x amount which reduced their cap their expenditure on it by
[00:26:09] six feet crazy yeah right now we are now in the same world with conversation a i where and there's
[00:26:16] a brilliant case study on google site about somebody using gemini companies in gemini for this but
[00:26:20] this is the kind of this is the future i think from a language and conversational and i perspective
[00:26:24] for us is doing using the tone of voice work we've done in the past using our kind of ability to
[00:26:30] simplify stuff and um and turn our tone of voice guides into prompts that can rewrite stuff but also
[00:26:37] kind of pushing our tone of voice into the conversation a i assistance that these companies
[00:26:41] use to communicate with various stakeholder groups it really can make a massive difference if you
[00:26:47] change your sentences from passive to active it can really like it your verbiage your sentence
[00:26:52] length your adjective use like all these things make palpable differences to bottom lines of companies
[00:26:59] i i just think i think so many people for obvious reasons aren't thinking about that aspect
[00:27:05] right you know they're thinking about the the nuts and bolts right especially a lot of
[00:27:09] the vendors i think it's fair to say a lot of the vendors that uh that i i interact with on a
[00:27:13] regular basis the conversationally i vendors that's perhaps not fun of mind you know but the
[00:27:18] importance of this i think is is missed at the moment but i wonder if that's a a new service
[00:27:26] because that is relations to public right it's its communication which some institutions i see
[00:27:34] have been very very very focused on this some banks they have a whole team you know
[00:27:38] the the rigorous about this but then that comes with it let's take a look at um UK banks you have
[00:27:44] Nat West their conversational AI Kora right Lloyds virtual assistant it's just called virtual
[00:27:54] assistant right no no name nothing it is Santander sandy right really interesting i think
[00:28:02] HSBC is just welcome to our uh oh it's got a name they use it once or twice but it's not
[00:28:08] standardized if i remember is it that kind of thing that you're you're looking at yeah there's
[00:28:15] yeah the the language it's using is all important i think the ultimately the nuts and bolts you
[00:28:21] described it the tech itself we're going to get to the point pretty quickly where everybody
[00:28:25] can build something that's pretty competent pretty capable right and it'll be as good as it
[00:28:29] can be and the tech is the barrier to the tech is lowering all the time that that that is it's
[00:28:35] becoming easier and easier to deploy these kind of things that are incredibly competent i think
[00:28:41] deploying the right conversation AI to talk to the right audiences using the right language
[00:28:45] and the right tone of voice is is is the bigger win in a way fine tuning that model with
[00:28:52] thousands of examples of before and after use split into adjective verbiage set this
[00:28:57] length all the rest of it is what's key and that's the kind of work we're now looking at with
[00:29:02] companies from a language perspective at least look for for those who are thinking goodness me
[00:29:09] we should be having a conversation uh what's the best way of reaching the company and then
[00:29:14] reaching you so our address is our web address is this is definition.com my name is luke
[00:29:21] budka bu d k a so you can email me luke.budka at thisisdefinition.com or find me on linkedin
[00:29:29] which is the the linkedin domain name forward slash the generative generation which is a
[00:29:35] prodigy shout out right it's a wrap yeah i'm fairly i'm fairly noisy on linkedin so you'll
[00:29:40] find me going on about stuff on there as well but yeah feel free to reach out through the
[00:29:44] website always keep the talk to brands who are looking to uh sound and look uh a little bit
[00:29:49] different when it comes to using conversational ai and generative ai in general fantastic look thank
[00:29:55] you so much for taking the time right thank you and uh yeah all the best cheers back bye