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Bang Digital Media’s “The Donald Bot” Shows Strong Test-Market Results; Company’s First A.I. Chatbot Proves Call Centers May Become Obsolete
Bang Digital Media’s “The Donald Bot” Shows Strong Test-Market Results; Company’s First A.I. Chatbot Proves Call Centers May Become Obsolete.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n DENVER, Nov. 03, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bang Holdings Corp. (OTCQB:BXNG), through its wholly owned subsidiary Bang Digital Media, today announced its “Donald Bot” is delivering impressive real-world productivity test-market results, and proves artificial intelligence (“A.I.”) bot technology could render human staffed call centers obsolete. Today’s news follows the Company’s October 25, announcement that “The Donald Bot” had reached the beta-test stage.\n During Week One of market beta-testing, 5.7 percent of The Donald Bot’s 776 conversations on Facebook resulted in sales, indicating the bot’s closing ratio compares favorably to results obtained in call centers staffed by humans. The Donald Bot is an A.I. chatbot that was programmed to sell its fans a self-annotated copy of the US Constitution. It currently has over 450,000 followers, the largest following of any Facebook Messenger chatbot in the world.  The US call center industry generates around $21 billion in revenues each year.1 The Company believes that with advances in natural language recognition, speech software and A.I., it could see A.I. bots take a multi-billion dollar bite out of that industry within five years. Further, Bang sees bots being used as a highly valuable aid to social media engagement and sales. Bang Digital Media’s The Donald Bot is proof of concept for what the Company calls a Digital Social Influencer, or “DSI.” $21 billion is a huge addressable market, and Bang aims to eventually capture a piece -- initially by deploying more advanced AI bots in its proprietary cannabis digital marketing network. “The Donald Bot is literally a sales machine. It never gets tired, takes lunch breaks, or calls in sick. Its focus is absolute,\" Steve Berke, Bang Holdings Chief Executive Officer said. \"It is the perfect salesperson. We believe The Donald Bot is the first A.I. persona on Facebook to sell products to humans without the customers realizing they are speaking with a machine.” “The Donald Bot has opinions to express on a range of topics from politics and domestic policy to celebrities and billionaires,” Berke added. “It’s the first Digital Social Influencer we have created and, in its future iterations, we are confident our A.I. bot wi...