Military AI, Business VAs, And Peak Hype - Five Unmissable Stories In This Week's AI Digest

Here's what you need to know today: Siri, Cortana, and Alexa could soon have to move over in the office, following the release of Cisco's AI assistant for business. Yesterday saw the first live demo of Cisco's Spark virtual assistant, first announced back in November 2017, at a Cisco Live event in Melbourne, Australia. Cisco senior VP and general manager of applications Rowan Trollope told the event that "existing voice assistants that have traction – none of them were built for business. They were built for the consumer domain. That is a totally different domain space to the one we are interested in."