How AI will help you connect with customers

The age of artificial intelligence (AI) is upon us. As many in the field already know, AI in its various forms and expressions -- neural networks, machine learning, computer vision, and so on -- isn't a new media-fueled fad or trend, but rather the next era of our tech-centric civilization. Simultaneously, there's a revolution happening with the digital habits of consumers, who are increasingly glued to their phones and communicating more and more via visual means (instead of just text) through social media and messaging apps. As a result of these concurrent trends, business and marketing will undergo radical transformations, with AI enabling powerful and useful new methods of connecting consumers directly with companies. Here are just some of these new approaches.