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VirtualAgent. Calling chatbots “virtualagent” is actually doing virtualagents an injustice, so please stop doing this. Virtualagents actually have a much broader use. Virtual Assistant. InteractiveVoiceResponse (IVR). Natural Language Processing (NLP).
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