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my company is experimenting with a chatbot for support.

Of course if you ask it to do something impossible with our product, the answer is a very long thing telling you where to click, which will never work.

It just won't ever say "can't be done".

When asking things that can in fact be done, it seems to get right the general direction, but the details are wrong. Of course a user without in depth knowledge will not know that.

Our CEO loves it.



  > Our CEO loves it. 
Of course, it probably saves them thousands in support salaries. Of course, it's a little harder to quantify how much it's costing them in lost goodwill and sales, but who cares about the long term, right?


As a probabilistic model trained to always provide an answer. You need to allow "Can't be done" as a valid response.

Find top queries that should have but didn't have this answer and add it to the examples of your bot.




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