Siri, Bixby, Cortana, Oh My!

In a CardLinx Card-Linking and O2O Industry Survey, leading tech companies selected AI assistants as the next big platform for digital commerce. And according to eMarketer (via Ad Week), there will be 67 million voice-assisted devices in the U.S. by 2019. But these digital assistants only scratch the surface of what the future with AI might look like. Advances in AI will be an iteration of the convergence of today's buzzwords: big data, cloud computing, biometric verification, contactless payments and geo-location. From payment networks to digital advertisers and retailers, every industry in the online-to-offline (O2O) ecosystem is using AI to enhance their real-time data analysis for greater consumer engagement.