Today, artificial intelligence (AI) has become an irreplaceable part of how we shop and do business on the web. It's a key component of the underlying infrastructure that brands and retailers rely on to engage customers, track trends, make better business decisions, and provide the most optimal, personalized customer experiences possible. Here are the top nine trends in eCommerce AI that you can expect to see in 2022 and 2023. AI voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, and Google Assistant have become household names used by millions of people worldwide. In fact, 27% of shoppers took advantage of voice assistants to make online purchases in 2020, accounting for $40 billion of revenue in the U.S. and the UK alone.

Commerce moved beyond brick-and-mortar stores, seized the online space, and is steadily crippling into mobile. Modern online shopping offers unparalleled flexibility of access and selection of available interfaces. You can shop away while on a bus. You can buy your next favorite gadget while relaxing on a lawn on a beautiful sunny day. That's why mobile commerce is such a fast-growing niche that caters specifically to smartphone users and their respective app ecosystems.

Click here to learn more. In celebration of Thinks Out Loud's 250th(!!!) episode, host Tim Peter is counting down 4 huge trends that every digital marketer needs to know in the year ahead;. You might also want to check out these slides I had the pleasure of presenting recently about the key trends shaping marketing in the next year. You can subscribe to Thinks Out Loud in iTunes, the Google Play Store, via our dedicated podcast RSS feed)(or sign up for our free newsletter). You can also download/listen to the podcast here on Thinks using the player at the top of this page.

Pete Skomoroch and Jon Bruner will be hosting O'Reilly Bot Day October 19, 2016, in San Francisco. Subscribe to the O'Reilly Bots Podcast to learn about advances in conversational user interfaces, artificial intelligence, and messaging that are revolutionizing the way we interact with software. Find us on Stitcher, iTunes, SoundCloud and RSS. Greylock Partners investor Sarah Guo joins us for episode two of our new pop-up podcast on bots and conversational interfaces. She's written insightfully on bots and has worked on several investments in bot startups. We open by asking how bots fit into Sarah's investment thesis and why bot startups are appealing right now (short answer: they sit at the intersection between messaging, AI-based search, and mobile commerce).