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Critical Field Service Challenges with Connected Data and AI

Critical Field Service Challenges with Connected Data and AI

Set Up for Success: Tackling Critical Field Service Challenges with Connected Data and AI Today’s customers demand faster, more personalized service, and field service is no exception. Research shows that 74% of mobile workers report that customer expectations have risen, with 73% noting an increased demand for a personal touch. This is shaping key trends in the field service industry. Trend #1: Rising Customer Expectations Amid a Shrinking Workforce Field service teams are grappling with rising customer expectations while dealing with a declining mobile workforce. In fact, 74% of mobile workers report increasing workloads. Given that mobile workers are often the only in-person company representatives, they face intense pressure to deliver exceptional service. At the same time, fewer young people are entering skilled trades, with applications dropping nearly 50% from 2020 to 2022, while seasoned technicians are retiring. This has led to high burnout rates, with 57% of mobile workers experiencing job-related fatigue. Trend #2: Connected Data Empowers Mobile Workers Mobile workers thrive when equipped with connected data. Yet, they spend only 32% of their time interacting with customers, as much of their time is consumed by manual tasks and disjointed systems. With the right technology, mobile workers can access up-to-date customer information through a CRM mobile app, streamlining processes and enabling more personalized service. Connected data also improves sustainability, with features like route optimization and drones reducing time on the road and minimizing worker stress. Trend #3: AI is Revolutionizing Field Service AI is rapidly transforming field service operations. Today, 79% of service organizations are investing in AI, and 83% of decision-makers plan to increase their AI investments next year. AI helps mobile teams save time and cut costs by analyzing customer data to generate personalized responses and streamline processes. By automating workflows with AI, mobile workers can deliver faster, more efficient service. AI-generated summaries of asset history and service interactions help prepare workers before they arrive at a job site, enabling better service and potential upsell opportunities. What’s Next in Field Service? Technologies like generative AI, augmented reality, and mobile solutions are shaping the future of field service. Companies that embrace these innovations now will gain a competitive edge. Like Related Posts Salesforce OEM AppExchange Expanding its reach beyond CRM, Salesforce.com has launched a new service called AppExchange OEM Edition, aimed at non-CRM service providers. Read more The Salesforce Story In Marc Benioff’s own words How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world’s Read more Salesforce Jigsaw Salesforce.com, a prominent figure in cloud computing, has finalized a deal to acquire Jigsaw, a wiki-style business contact database, for Read more Health Cloud Brings Healthcare Transformation Following swiftly after last week’s successful launch of Financial Services Cloud, Salesforce has announced the second installment in its series Read more

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GPT-4o GPT4 and Gemini 1.5

GPT-4o GPT4 and Gemini 1.5

An Independent Analysis of GPT-4o’s Classification Abilities Article by Lars Wilk OpenAI’s recent unveiling of GPT-4o marks a significant advancement in AI language models, transforming how we interact with them. The most impressive feature is the live interaction capability with ChatGPT, allowing for seamless conversational interruptions. GPT-4o GPT4 and Gemini 1.5 Despite a few hiccups during the live demo, the achievements of the OpenAI team are undeniably impressive. Best of all, immediately after the demo, OpenAI granted access to the GPT-4o API. In this article, I will present my independent analysis, comparing the classification abilities of GPT-4o with GPT-4, Google’s Gemini, and Unicorn models using an English dataset I created. Which of these models is the strongest in understanding English? What’s New with GPT-4o? GPT-4o introduces the concept of an Omni model, designed to seamlessly process text, audio, and video. OpenAI aims to democratize GPT-4 level intelligence, making it accessible even to free users. Enhanced quality and speed across more than 50 languages, combined with a lower price point, promise a more inclusive and globally accessible AI experience. Additionally, paid subscribers will benefit from five times the capacity compared to non-paid users. OpenAI also announced a desktop version of ChatGPT to facilitate real-time reasoning across audio, vision, and text interfaces. How to Use the GPT-4o API The new GPT-4o model follows the existing chat-completion API, ensuring backward compatibility and ease of use: pythonCopy codefrom openai import AsyncOpenAI OPENAI_API_KEY = “<your-api-key>” def openai_chat_resolve(response: dict, strip_tokens=None) -> str: if strip_tokens is None: strip_tokens = [] if response and response.choices and len(response.choices) > 0: content = response.choices[0].message.content.strip() if content: for token in strip_tokens: content = content.replace(token, ”) return content raise Exception(f’Cannot resolve response: {response}’) async def openai_chat_request(prompt: str, model_name: str, temperature=0.0): message = {‘role’: ‘user’, ‘content’: prompt} client = AsyncOpenAI(api_key=OPENAI_API_KEY) return await client.chat.completions.create( model=model_name, messages=[message], temperature=temperature, ) openai_chat_request(prompt=”Hello!”, model_name=”gpt-4o-2024-05-13″) GPT-4o is also accessible via the ChatGPT interface. Official Evaluation GPT-4o GPT4 and Gemini 1.5 OpenAI’s blog post includes evaluation scores on known datasets such as MMLU and HumanEval, showcasing GPT-4o’s state-of-the-art performance. However, many models claim superior performance on open datasets, often due to overfitting. Independent analyses using lesser-known datasets are crucial for a realistic assessment. My Evaluation Dataset I created a dataset of 200 sentences categorized under 50 topics, designed to challenge classification tasks. The dataset is manually labeled in English. For this evaluation, I used only the English version to avoid potential biases from using the same language model for dataset creation and topic prediction. You can check out the dataset here. Performance Results I evaluated the following models: The task was to match each sentence with the correct topic, calculating an accuracy score and error rate for each model. A lower error rate indicates better performance. Conclusion This analysis using a uniquely crafted English dataset reveals insights into the state-of-the-art capabilities of these advanced language models. GPT-4o stands out with the lowest error rate, affirming OpenAI’s performance claims. Independent evaluations with diverse datasets are essential for a clearer picture of a model’s practical effectiveness beyond standardized benchmarks. Note that the dataset is fairly small, and results may vary with different datasets. This evaluation was conducted using the English dataset only; a multilingual comparison will be conducted at a later time. Like1 Related Posts Salesforce OEM AppExchange Expanding its reach beyond CRM, Salesforce.com has launched a new service called AppExchange OEM Edition, aimed at non-CRM service providers. Read more Salesforce Jigsaw Salesforce.com, a prominent figure in cloud computing, has finalized a deal to acquire Jigsaw, a wiki-style business contact database, for Read more Health Cloud Brings Healthcare Transformation Following swiftly after last week’s successful launch of Financial Services Cloud, Salesforce has announced the second installment in its series Read more Top Ten Reasons Why Tectonic Loves the Cloud The Cloud is Good for Everyone – Why Tectonic loves the cloud You don’t need to worry about tracking licenses. Read more

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