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What is Conversational AI

GlossaryLanguage Models and Natural Language Processing

Systems that conduct a dialogue with the user through text or voice.

Definition

Conversational AI refers to systems that conduct a dialogue with the user through text or voice. To put it simply, this concept helps you choose chatbots, assistants, and language models for a specific task. In practice, it helps to understand what capabilities the tool actually has, what data it will need, and what limitations are worth checking before implementation.

Example

The client writes to the support chat, and the conversational AI clarifies the problem, searches for an answer and transfers the complex case to the operator.

Why it matters

Conversational AI is useful in service, sales and training, but requires control over facts, tone and privacy. This helps you choose AI tools not by big promises, but by how they work in a real problem.

How it works

The system takes the request and context, converts them into tokens, builds a probable continuation, and returns a response to the user. In the case of the term “Conversational AI”, it is important to look separately at the data, quality criteria and application conditions.

Where it is used

  • It is used in chatbots, assistants, text generators, corporate search and document management tools.

Limitations

The model can be sure to make mistakes, lose context, confuse sources, and require verification in important tasks.