How 970 million voicebots shipped by 2020 will change sales forever

Stephen Hawking famously said, "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." Before that happens, however, the emergence of AI-driven sales technology will almost certainly spell the end of selling as we know it now -- and could spell the end of the line for businesses that don't appreciate the power in the next wave of technology. Imagine a digital sales assistant that responds to verbal commands. Those commands could be simple -- "call the next most qualified lead in my queue," for example. Or they could be complex -- "provide an analysis of which up-sell offers have worked best for prospects like the one I'm working on." Such assistants -- when connected to large data sets of sales and marketing automation data -- will allow salespeople to work at the speed of their thoughts, rather than at the speed their systems allow them to work.