How to profit from chatbots, big data and virtual reality

Primarily the Googles, Amazons, Microsofts and IBMs of the world who are very strong at that, but I think increasingly so we're going to be focusing on the holders of data which essentially is the feed stock that goes into things like artificial intelligence." Soon, investors will be assessing companies and sectors based on how well they can collect data and how they can use this data for their core business, according to Ma. Daniel Hegarty, CEO and founder of digital mortgage broker habito, says AI in the form of chatbots (a program which consumers engage with through messaging services) will become mainstream next year. "Expect them to become more polished and human-like, and even more ingrained in the fabric of our daily lives – whether you're ordering groceries from across the kitchen using Amazon's Alexa or transferring money to a family member using a Facebook chatbot," he said in a press statement. "Bots offer a comfortable conversational paradigm that allows us to get directly to what we need, yet still allow us to interact with them passively.