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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · today 13:11 EDT

  Boston Consulting Group is doing something slightly unusual with its new AI sales agent. It is teaching it how to fail. The agent, called Jamie, is being trained not only on the call transcripts, engagement patterns, and conversational habits of BCG’s strongest-performing sellers, but also on the behaviours that did not work, the approaches […]
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