Chep

Bitcoin Adoption Specialist

How far are we from AI cold calling on behalf of companies and doing the job better than 50% of reps out there?

Came across this AI tool which lets you voice clone anyone they have on the website and get them to say anything. There is a great quote by Professor Albert Allen Bartlett that states "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function”. I bring this up because if they can clone the voices of famous people and get them to say anything I would predict we are about 1 year away from AI being better than about 10% of reps out there. 2 years from AI surpassing 50% of reps 3 years from AI being in the top 1% of reps for booking demos. Now my numbers might be way off but that's why it is a prediction. On the one hand I think this is massively deflationary and should lower everyone's cost of living. On the other hand I hope humanity figures out a way to replace a lot of jobs that will be rendered obsolete by AI. I think closing will be safe for awhile, but the straight up SDR role could be disrupted in the coming years.

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Kosta_Konfucius

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Sales Rep

If AI takes over, then I think the amount of calls they will do will be an insane amount. Leading to more spam filters from buyers blocking AI calls. Leading to more human interactions

oldcloser

Arsonist

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💀

Agreed. It ain't there yet.

Chep

WR Officer

3

Bitcoin Adoption Specialist

Hahahahahahaha 🎯

MileHighSolo

Personal Narrative

2

SVP of Sales

They buyers will be powered by AI also. Robot vs Robot.

pirate

Big Shot

1

🦜☠️ Account Executive

Going to be like with Gmail blocking emails

sketchysales

Politicker

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Sales Manager

My question is, will AI. be good enough for people to not be able to distinguish if its a real human and if not, even if its very good, are people willing to set up meetings with robots?

Not the least to say AI. is built and on collective data so are companies going to be willing to input sensitive info into these systems?

And then further to that point, could people really mess with AI. by feeding crap info into the areas it collects info from thus rendering the tool useless?

This is text to voice which is nothing new, maybe sounds better but isnt really revolutionary as far as i can see, it wont handle objections or questions on that initial call without the AI. aspect and unless that data is provided by a closed and encrypted source, will companies really embrace it?

Personally i dont see any threat in the near to medium future.

Chep

WR Officer

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Bitcoin Adoption Specialist

My hypothesis is the AI will just book the meeting for a rep because on an actual zoom it will be much harder for an AI to prove it’s not a bot. Could be wrong though you are spot on about the data point. Lot of lawsuits will be coming in the next few years about what data can and can’t be used to train these things

sketchysales

Politicker

3

Sales Manager

Yeh my main thing is how will the bot handle an objection to the meeting or a complex product related question on the initial call, I just cant see it taking over for many years if at all.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

4

🦊

Either way I ain't answering the phone 😆

sketchysales

Politicker

2

Sales Manager

Exactly. The way sales is happening is changing as well, taking more creative approaches to cut through crap, AI wont do that.

pirate

Big Shot

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🦜☠️ Account Executive

I think it's going to be like internet and dotcom bubble. We all use internet now. We have more jobs thanks to internet. And same for AI. I don't think anyone would want to watch AI generated celebs for long. I use ChatGPT and SalesGPT occasionally and that's it. I think also too much AI will become ouroboros and destroy itself

jefe

Arsonist

2

🍁

I agree

Chep

WR Officer

1

Bitcoin Adoption Specialist

Excellent comment. I’m reading What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly and he makes the point that technology, while solving many of our problems, it also creates new challenges. It is a double edge sword. I think you are correct it will eliminate many jobs, but create even more.

pirate

Big Shot

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🦜☠️ Account Executive

I guess you snooze you lose and it will be the same here. There'll be AI that won't go anywhere and solutions that will. Yuval Noah Harari had a good theory years ago that maybe it would create a new social class useless people. But that's not AI that's just overpopulation

oldcloser

Arsonist

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💀

It's not there yet, but inbound is a whole different story. IVRs are dead. AI assistants can answer, direct, speak and pull 75 simultaneous API calls to deal with complex customer issues.
RIP CS
Outbound sales? Safe for our lifetime.

Chep

WR Officer

2

Bitcoin Adoption Specialist

💯

Sunbunny31

Politicker

1

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

I have yet to come across this nirvana of CS.

oldcloser

Arsonist

0

💀

See amelia ai - scary.

Archie

Fire Starter

2

AE

We are 10 years away from AI being better on the phones than humans.

Chep

WR Officer

0

Bitcoin Adoption Specialist

I hope you are right but I fear we as a species are bad at estimating exponentials

HVACexpert

Politicker

1

sales engineer

I give it a 1 in 10 chance

wolfofmiami

Opinionated

2

🐺

gonna have to sell on the golf course

Chep

WR Officer

0

Bitcoin Adoption Specialist

few

JCG139

Member

1

Enterprise SDR

I say never once someone can figure out it’s AI they will instantly turned off and ghost IMO

Revenue_Rambo

Politicker

1

Director, Revenue Enablement

There are tools on the marketing doing much of this now. One that I know of in particular will run your cadences fully personalized and all you have to do is feed it in source point like LI and then provide value points for various target roles. If a prospect is interested it can book the meeting with a rep.

If I were an SDR I’d be worried. Though still at least a few years out from possibly taking AE roles.

As far as voice spoofing. It can sound like who ever you want, but still needs to be “intelligent” enough to navigate a serious of questions. Order takers will vanish. Sellers will continue.

SoccerandSales

Big Shot

1

Account Executive

I personally don't see it getting into to cold calls to a level where they are better than 50% of reps. Maybe that is me overestimating the quality of SDRs out there, but we shall see

Sunbunny31

Politicker

1

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

It'll be bots talking to bots, pretty much how it is on a lot of social media.

Chep

WR Officer

0

Bitcoin Adoption Specialist

The dead internet theory is compelling

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Sales rep

Chep

WR Officer

1

Bitcoin Adoption Specialist

If it comes to captchas, maybe😂

RelationshipMaker

Opinionated

1

Head of Sales

If it’s good now, imagine what it’ll be like in 5 years. Not only that, it’ll know that you need a product or service because of data that supports its hypothesis.
I think it’ll be major game changer for cold outreach.

Chep

WR Officer

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Bitcoin Adoption Specialist

This ^^

sleepingjaguar

Opinionated

1

CSM, Emerging Markets

You’re telling me yall really haven’t heard of Air AI??? https://www.air.ai/

HVACexpert

Politicker

0

sales engineer

Yay…. Another AI post 🙄🤦‍♂️

Chep

WR Officer

0

Bitcoin Adoption Specialist

The technology is fascinating. I understand posts saying hey guys what AI sales job are out there are redundant and lame but I tried with this post to bring a unique perspective and wanted to hear opinions from other savages about this

HVACexpert

Politicker

0

sales engineer

The whole subject matter has been beaten to death constantly, lot of existing threads.

SalesPharaoh

Big Shot

0

Senior Account Executive

Well i found out a hot IG model i was following was AI...

peachykeen

Politicker

0

sae e-commerce

Despite the growing trend of AI, and even remote work to a degree, we are social creatures. Human interaction will still win for now.

Justatitle

Big Shot

0

Account Executive

don't know that it will ever be there, there's at least sympathy when someone is cold calling, if it's AI that is gone

SgtAE

WR Officer

0

AE

AI callers are just advanced robo diallers.
There are established laws around this, I think they'll nip this in the bud honestly

MyAnonymousName

Opinionated

0

Sales Leader

Now imagine you create an AI tool to answer cold calls?

What's the result?
The greatest cold calls ever we will get to read all about on LinkedIn? Or an endless conversation that collapses on itself creating a black hole and destroying life as we know it?

I am not in sales because I am good at Science but I think those are the only potential results.

GDO

Politicker

0

BDM

very far away. Just check how bad chatbots are

Beans

Big Shot

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Enterprise Account Executive

What is your reasoning for that level of success?

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Business Development Rep

AI is not going to take over SDR roles indefinitely. It may be used at first, but once a buyer knows they are talking to a robot, they will ghost them. Also, the US gov is cracking down on automatic sales tools like autodialers and prerecorded calls. I don't think they will ignore AI sales tools much longer. So, SDRs will always be needed, but like anything, the demand will fluctuate.

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