How AI-enabled devices will affect businesses in 2017

Someone made a lot of new friends over the holidays. Her name is Alexa, and along with her acquaintances (perhaps frenemies?) Cortana and Siri, she's about to become as much a part of the daily life of American households as Alfred the butler is at Wayne Manor. Except that Alfred, for all his talents, can't tell Batman exactly what time the cable repairman will arrive this afternoon, or the current balance in his bank account (not that billionaire Bruce Wayne would care). The implications of 2017, the year virtual assistants really arrived, will be immense for business.