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When Machines Become Customers

The Gartner Sales Podcast

CHAPTER

The Evolution of Machine Customers

In chapter three of your book, you talk about the term custom bot. Can you walk us through exactly what is a machine customer? Our definition of a machine customer is a non-human economic actor that obtains goods or services in exchange for payment. As it starts to evolve, we're going to say to these machines, we as customers, are going to say "I can't have you just operating only as a dumb kind of machine"

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