Exploring AI Chatbots: Capabilities and Applications

Admin / December 25, 2023

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The first chatbot, ELIZA, was introduced in 1966, and since then, we have come a long way.Now, chatbots are more capable and powerful. They are playing a significant role in various industries and applications. In this blog post, we will explore AI chatbots and how they work. We will explain how they are working and performing in 2024. Let’s begin with the basics.

What is an AI Chatbot?

An AI chatbot is an Artificial Intelligence program that has the ability to chat with humans. It can understand human languages, figure out the intent and context of the query, and respond accordingly.

It can process the input commands and has enough intelligence to give output similar to a human answer. However, it is a bot that has been trained to do so with certain limitations.

An AI chatbot can be integrated into a website, mobile application, software, robot, etc. It can perform various functions and act as a representative to reduce human workload.
Chatbots aren’t necessarily powered by AI; some work on pre-programmed codes and give automated responses that are fed to them. On the other hand, AI chatbots can think like a human, learn on their own, and produce results based on their intelligence.

How Do AI Chatbots Work?

The first thing that an AI chatbot requires is the understanding of human languages. That’s how it can understand user inputs in the form of text or speech.
For this, it uses Natural Language Processing (NLP), which is an AI technology to understand human languages. It analyzes the user’s input and understands its intent, syntax, sentiments, mistakes, grammar, and other things.
Once the chatbot understands the language, it is time to process the input. And that’s where Machine Learning algorithms come into play.
These algorithms have a certain set of rules and instructions to learn from the fed data and produce results. They can make their own decisions and arrive at a conclusion without human intervention.
Most importantly, the algorithms learn more with inputs and results. They can learn and improve on their own. That’s why AI chatbots go through rigorous training on different sets of input before the official release to end users.
After processing, the chatbot generates a response and presents the output to the user in the form of text or speech. Now, the user and chatbot can continue the conversation, and the cycle keeps repeating.

What AI Chatbots Can Do—Capabilities

Language Understanding

An AI chatbot can understand human languages through Natural Language Processing (NLP). It understands the conversation just like a human and responds according to the user’s intent. Even if you make typos in your prompt, it can figure out the mistake and offer the correct output.
Most importantly, it can understand multiple languages, so people from different countries can interact without any hassle.

Self-learning and Improvement

Due to Machine Learning and Deep Learning, AI chatbots are capable of thinking. They do not need pre-written answers.
They can improve over time with new data inputs and conversations. So, if a chatbot is unable to answer anything at the moment, it might answer it perfectly in the foreseeable future.
It improves on its own and learns new things. Thus, the more you train your chatbot, the better it will become.

Personalized Output

AI chatbots understand your needs, and that’s how they offer personalized answers to your queries and questions. They learn from your data and save it in a large database, and the next time you interact with the chatbot or continue the conversation, it gives personalized output.

Quick Responses

The responses of AI chatbots are pretty quick. Within a few seconds, you can generate a 1,000-word essay. They work faster than humans and save time. Therefore, they are ideal for businesses and organizations that want to improve productivity.

Seamless Integration

AI chatbots can be integrated into websites, social media, applications, software, etc. Businesses can integrate them into their collaboration software, e-commerce websites, feedback systems, or various places where they need to reduce human intervention and chat effectively with the end user.

AI Chatbot Applications

Customer Service

The most common use of AI chatbots is in customer service. You must have witnessed a chatbot integrated into websites to facilitate customers.
Businesses prefer chatbots because they can answer the relevant queries of customers in no time. That’s how it is possible to facilitate a massive number of customers without any wait.
These chatbots can understand multiple languages, so it is possible to communicate with customers from different countries and regions. They can pull up relevant FAQs, blogs, helpful guides, and other information according to the needs of a customer.
After integrating a chatbot, customer representatives can have a sigh of relief and invest their time in more productive tasks. Plus, when there is a need for their intervention, they can take over the chatbot and facilitate customers further.
TIDIO offers Lyro AI, which is a customer service chatbot. The bot can talk to customers and solve about 70% of the queries within 6 seconds.



It is able to crawl any business support content and turn it into its knowledge database, which is used to answer questions from customers. It offers personalized answers to every customer and redirects complex requests to human agents.

Content Writing

After the introduction of ChatGPT, the world has realized the potential of AI chatbots and how they can help out in businesses, day-to-day matters, content generation, and tons of other things.
You can ask ChatGPT to write an email for your customers, create blog posts, write LinkedIn posts, generate taglines, and anything you want.
It can write video scripts, generate unique ideas, analyze web pages and come up with outlines, summarize lengthy posts, and help in every aspect of content creation.
However, the result depends on the prompt you have written. The more you explain your needs to it and train it according to your preferences, the better response it generates.
Here’s our prompt to write an email for Christmas greetings to customers of an imaginary fashion brand.








Check out ChatGPT’s answer:









































Jasper AI’s Jasper Chat is another great example of AI chatbot applications in content creation. It uses OpenAI’s GPT and other models to create tailored content pieces with accurate and up-to-date information while adhering to the style, tone, and other requirements of the user.

It can create,
  • Blog posts
  • Video scripts
  • Headlines
  • LinkedIn profile content
  • Ad copies
  • Photo captions
  • Emails
  • Content ideas and more

Image Creation

AI chatbots can also generate captivating images according to given prompts. There are numerous popular names, and these chatbots make content creation easier than ever before.
Jasper Chat can also generate images for your blog posts, eBooks, emails, social media posts, newsletters, etc. It is an add-on to the chatbot that facilitates AI image and text generation on one platform.
Midjourney is another generative AI tool for creating images from texts. It understands human texts and creates appealing images.
OpenAI has also introduced DALL-E 3 for ChatGPT Plus users. It is capable of turning your ideas and imagination into images.
All these image-creation AI tools have made image creation easier and quicker. Users can create logos, sceneries, products, or anything they want with a descriptive prompt. These tools are getting better over time with more parameter training and datasets.  
You don’t need to be a designer to create thoughtful images. Your imagination is the only limit, and you have to master prompt engineering. The more details you provide, the better images they offer.
Graphics designers use these to generate ideas for image creation and make images for their work. It enhances their productivity, and they can invest time in post-editing and other important tasks.

Education and Learning

With the help of A.I chatbots, it is possible to improve the education and learning process for students. And that’s what Khan Academy has done.
Khanmigo is Khan Academy’s chatbot that can serve as a tutor to learners and assistant to teachers. Now, students can ask questions without hesitation and throw away the hurdles in their learning process.
With this AI chatbot, students can be more creative. They can generate ideas for projects to work on. For instance, if they want to write a story, they can feed the information of the character, and the bot will help in creating an engaging piece.
It can also help new programmers to learn effectively. They can debug their codes easily and improve with real-time feedback.

























Teachers can plan courses, assignments, and tests with the help of AI. They can incorporate students’ learning, feedback, hurdles, and other aspects to free up teachers’ time for more productive tasks.
Khanmigo is defining the future of learning and education. It is also based on the GPT-4 model, which is why it is powerful enough to answer all types of queries and questions.

Programming

Programmers often get frustrated after repeating similar codes and wasting their time on simple tasks. It kills their productivity, creativity, and precious time.
GitHub’s Copilot solves these issues. It is your AI pair programmer or assistant that helps you complete your code without wasting time. It can be integrated with IDEs to assist during the coding process.
Programmers can ask Copilot anything about coding. For instance, they can ask Copilot to explain any part or function in the code. It keeps track of your project’s context and gives tailored answers.
It can even go through readme files and tell you how to run the code or file exactly as written in the file. It can replace most of the boring tasks programmers do.
It can generate pieces of code you need for any project. Just ask Copilot to create code for adding a button in HTML, and it will give you the code snippet. So, there is no need to waste time on websites looking for code snippets and then changing them according to the code.









































Not only that, Copilot can help in code referencing, public code filtering, creating reasons for changes, reading documentation, getting real-time suggestions, etc.
It is a game-changer in software development, and one out of three Fortune 500 companies use GitHub Copilot to enhance their productivity. 

Sales and Marketing

AI chatbots have also started conquering sales and marketing for businesses.
HubSpot introduced ChatSpot, a chatbot that is based on ChatGPT and empowered with HubSpot’s unique data.
The AI-powered assistant can help you grow your business. It can help in creating blog posts, emails, tweets, and other content types. You can even generate AI images to make your content more attractive.
It is powerful enough to dive deep into the company’s data. It can study the technology, locations, funding, and other details to arrive at intelligent decisions.
It can help increase website traffic and authority with its SEO expertise. It can discover the right keywords, content pieces, and competitors’ strategies and help you take your business to the next level.
It improves your HubSpot CRM experience and makes things a lot easier. It acts as your CRM assistant, analyst, and optimizer. Company reports, performance, contacts, and all details are just a sentence away.



















Human Resource

Incorporating AI chatbots in HR is not only beneficial for HR professionals but also for employees.
Paradox AI is an AI chatbot specially created for HR needs. It is a conversation recruiting bot that interacts with new candidates, filters out the best of them, and then schedules an interview automatically. It can also automate the documentation and onboarding process to release the burden of HR teams.
It can work 24/7 and make the recruitment process faster than ever before. It can understand multiple languages and ensure a smooth recruitment process.
Similarly, there are multiple AI chatbots that help in the training & development of employees, employee feedback collection, answering employee queries, managing leaves, etc.