Nikola Mrkšić

Nikola Mrkšić

Nikola Mrkšić is the CEO and co-founder of PolyAI, a leading provider of enterprise-ready voice assistants built for customer support. Mrkšić has a Ph.D. in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing from University of Cambridge, and served on the initial team that developed Apple’s Siri.

AI Armor: Protecting Customer Service Agents Against Abuse

Customer expectations are at an all-time high. The facilitation of near-instant gratification has led to reduced consumer patience and more frequent temper tantrums. Though no-wait resolution is a common expectation from customers seeking support, delivering abuse to contact center agents shouldn't be the default response to an imperfect interaction. Unfortunately, a recent study found that…