Will 2019 be the Year of Voice AI? – Audrey Wu – Medium

At CES this year both Amazon Echo and Google Assistant take center stage as voice assistants grow in popularity. Artificial intelligence is definitely the hot topic at CES this year. With significant investments from companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Apple, AI in 2019 is off to the races. Amazon recently confirmed it has sold 100 million Echos. In addition, Google Assistant comes preinstalled on the Pixel, and it's been estimated that Google Assistant will be on one billion devices devices by the end of January. But how smart is AI?