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VR headsets like the Oculus Rift are expected to sell around 300,000 Samsung's sub-£100 ($100) Gear VR headset is expected to do even better Up to 12 million Amazon Echo and Google Home virtual assistants could sell during over the Christmas shopping period, predicts one expert Samsung's sub-£100 ($100) Gear VR headset is expected to do even better Virtual assistants are set to pummel virtual reality headsets in the fight for consumer cash this Christmas, according to new reports. What do you get the pampered pooch who has everything? New... Which emoji is popular in YOUR region? Bristol loves the... Want the ultimate Christmas party sound system? AmpMe app... Would Apple hire YOU? Revealed: 25 bizarre and tricky... What do you get the pampered pooch who has everything?

Technology has changed the very psychology of money and the way we perceive it and artificial intelligence promises to further the ease of doing business for economies across the globe. The great recession left people unsure and with a lower level of trust in banks. The need for secure systems and solid investment plans however, continues to be as great as ever and technology solutions are needed. Technology-backed advisors have now come into the picture and are expected to manage $2 trillion in Assets by 2020. The market is ripe for disruption and FinTech firms are set to take the lead in this change to cater to the changing customer preferences.

According to Gartner's latest report, Worldwide IT spending is forecast to reach $3.5 trillion in 2017, up 2.9 percent from 2016's estimated spending of $3.4 trillion. Additionally, IT services spending is also set to rise 4.8 percent in 2017 to reach $943 billion. All of these figures tell us that many organizations have already allocated billions of dollars to keep up with the emerging trends in enterprise technology. One of our CMS-Connected contributors and a founding partner of Digital Clarity Group, Cathy McKnight, wrote a splendid article about the relationship between artificial intelligence and marketers. She also pointed out that more and more of the technology titans have adopted and leveraged the power of AI to enable their platforms to generate natural language, content optimization, analyze consumer behavior, and ultimately, be ahead of the game by knowing more about their customers' needs than even the customers know themselves.

Falling in love with an intelligent computer operating system may become a thing of the present with the new Gatebox virtual home robot. The Gatebox robot is a glass tube in which a character is projected. It contains a microphone and camera for interaction. In addition to this companionship component, the Gatebox robot can also be connected to the user's home network to automate household appliances. The robot also has warmth, moisture, and light sensors.

The creative mind has a lot to gain from Artificial Intelligence and can use it as the pathway for their success. A creative mind is definitely an attribute that most entrepreneurs possess and their thoughts and ideas can often lead to producing many different forms of successful businesses. At the same time there is so much data that the human mind has to process that revolves around their creativity, that much of it can become lost in the transition of taking an idea and putting it into reality. With the use of artificial intelligence to relay what is present in the creative mind it opens up the way of the future for doing business and expanding upon creativity to beyond whatever could be imagined. In today's world of business within utilizing the resources of A.I., brands have to rely on limited resources to be able to identify what the consumer wants from them.

Artificial intelligence (AI) had a coming out party of sorts in 2016. Even though it has been in development for decades, this year, with the perfect combination of cheap computing power and access to increasing amounts of data, it seems AI's time has come. Its first foray in business has been directed at making salespeople more efficient at every level of the sales workflow. If you think about it, it makes sense to start with the part of the company that drives revenue. Certainly the vendors recognize that, says Alan Lepofsky, an analyst at Constellation Research, who is working on the impact of AI on work.

This year's news about what artificial intelligence (AI) can do in the arts has been both exciting and scary. Neural networks have learnt to paint like masters and compose sophisticated music. Those of us in creative endeavours might be as endangered by technological advances as blue-collar workers are often said to be - though we are protected by certain limitations that technology is never likely to overcome. Last summer, a team of Russian developers released Prisma, a mobile app based on the work of some German AI researchers. The neural network behind it could redraw an image using techniques it had learnt from studying the oeuvre of a number of painters, including Vincent Van Gogh and Edvard Munch. The end product was impressive: Prisma could reproduce brushstrokes and palettes, using only a photo for guidance, almost the way a human painter could have.

The first step away from search engines and towards intelligent assistants was marked by Google's launch in 2012 of Google Now, which offered "information that you need throughout your day, before you even ask". It tried to predict what users might want – such as weather reports, sports results or public transport updates – and this information would appear on your phone without the need to type anything into a search bar. By 2016 this had evolved into Google Assistant, capable of having a two-way dialogue with the user, and designed with wearable technologies in mind. You can ask it to remember things (such as codes or passwords) and it learns to recognise things you do regularly so it can offer relevant suggestions. It can also look at what is on your phone screen to get'context' for what you are doing – for example if you are discussing going to a rock-climbing centre with a friend, it can show you prices and directions.

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