With consumers now shopping and managing their services online, retailers are racing to find ways to improve their customer service and shopping experiences while transforming how they communicate with their customers. Also, as of mid-April, Facebook opened Messenger platform to chatbot services. Rogers Communications is also wading into the bot game by using Facebook Messenger for customers to chat with service representatives to change account information, add a phone line or deal with other service information, and are on the cusp of implementing a bot. In many ways it makes sense for retailers to incorporate bots in areas they can be controlled, like automating everyday customer service tasks (imagine never sitting on hold again).

INFLUENCER: "Conversational artificial intelligence is alive and well," says Paul Slattery, Technical Director at AKQA Berlin One of the most natural things for humans to do – engage in a simple conversation – has been one of the hardest things for machines to master. Yet a new era has started where we might chat with machines more often than we do with each other – as conversation becomes the most effective interface for getting things done. Conversational AI (Artificial Intelligence) is alive and well in applications like Telegram, which passed 100 million active monthly users earlier this year. Facebook has re-launched Messenger as a platform with built in AI; x.ai has spent the last two years teaching'Amy', its calendar AI, how to handle meeting schedules via email; and a 19-year-old has created DoNotPay, a free chatbot AI lawyer that has appealed 3 million in parking tickets. Let's have a look at how these intelligent systems work, the advantages they present to us and where we might be heading.

DETROIT/SAN FRANCISCO, July 12 (Reuters) - Concerns raised by the first reported fatality in a semi-automated car were expected to speed adoption of more sensitive technology to help vehicles see and drive themselves safely, increasing demand on the emerging autonomous vehicle technology industry, investors and analysts said. Goldman Sachs forecasts the market for advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous vehicles will grow from about 3 billion last year to 96 billion in 2025 and 290 billion in 2035. More than half of that revenue in 20 years, Goldman estimates, will come from radar, cameras and lidar, a sensor that uses laser - all tools considered essential to building vehicles that can pilot themselves. The May 7 death of Ohio technology company owner Joshua Brown in a Tesla Motors Inc Model S while the car's semi-automated Autopilot system was engaged highlighted the limitations of current automated driving systems. Tesla's Autopilot system uses cameras and radar, but not lidar.

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But the job recruitment process can be taxing for both applicants and companies, which spend long hours flipping through troves of résumés to determine the best candidates. In an attempt to streamline hiring, FirstJob, a millennial-focused HR company, has launched a recruiting assistant named Mya that they say can automate up to 75 percent of the recruitment process. The system uses machine learning and natural language processing to perform an initial screen, answer applicants' questions, give feedback, and provide suggestions on how an applicant should proceed. Meanwhile, the system gives businesses much-needed breathing room when attempting to qualify large groups of potential candidates. Related: Look out, Google Assistant!

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has spelled out the technologies the company believes will reshape enterprise. Chatbots, machine learning, augmented reality and cloud-based automation will be commonplace within businesses in the near future, Nadella told the company's Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto today. During his keynote, Nadella talked about Microsoft's efforts to help businesses incorporate each of these technologies and satisfy what he said was a desire among CEOs "to use digital technology to change their business outcomes". Microsoft HoloLens is an untethered headset that overlays digital information and images on top of the real world around you. Nadella described the "mixed reality" offered by HoloLens as a sea-change in personal computing, which would transform training within business.

Just as text messaging has become a mainstream form of communication, attention is shifting to the chatbot as the next big thing for information management and customer service. Chatbots are computer programs that interpret human speech or written inquiries and decide which information is being sought. Although chatbots have been around since the 1960s, they have evolved into tools for giving out details or taking orders, such as when people search for a job or buy a movie ticket. The chatbot picks up keywords from sentences and matches them with a database to create replies. Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence and big data processing technology, the machines today can analyze and understand a wide range of speech and produce the exact services sought, said Goshi Yonekura, chief technology officer of Tokyo-based AI developer Alt Inc.