What comes to mind when we talk about implementing AI in daily activities? Maybe self driven cars, a self sufficient thermostat that can determine body temperature while taking the outside environment into account in order to set the room temperature, and a lot of other awesome things. From the perspective of a business, there are a lot of key roles that AI can play to make their entire workflow more efficient. This does not mean that there will be less work, but on the flip side, people will be able to focus on other issues, maybe business expansion or launching a new product! This is especially beneficial for e-commerce platforms, be it of any size, they have two objectives, one, to make purchase convenient for consumers, and to make it easy for consumers if they wish to communicate any grievances, or have a query, to the team.

Businesses are using voice assistants to answer rote, repetitive questions faster and cheaper so HR, IT and other departments can focus on higher value tasks. In some cases, businesses are just replacing website and internal portal Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) pages with simple, deterministically programmed chatbots. In other cases, they're replacing or supplementing what employees have traditionally done with digital counterparts that use machine learning. "Before one of our clients decided to implement a recruitment voice assistant, HR department employees had to personally process all phone calls from job seekers. They also had to create a new profile for every new candidate and fill in the information manually, which took a lot of time," said Julia Ryzh, chief marketing officer at voice experience platform provider Just AI. "It was [also] hard to tell whether the candidate had already applied for the position in question, since all the necessary pieces of information were stored in different places."

ZHONGSHAN, CHINA – Amid Beijing's push to turn the country into an artificial intelligence (AI) powerhouse and embed the technology in all facets of life, some Chinese entrepreneurs are taking the expertise to a new frontier: sex dolls. WMDOLL, one of China's biggest sex doll makers, which is based in the southeastern province of Guangdong, launched what it calls AI-powered dolls at end of 2016 that offer features ranging from simple conversation to moving eyes, arms and torsos. Customers can personalize their dolls by choosing various appearance options including height, hairstyle and eye color. AI features on the dolls are still very basic: they can answer questions but cannot hold longer conversations. The doll uses vocabulary by connecting to a database supported by Chinese tech giant Baidu.

WMDOLL, one of China's biggest sex doll makers, which is based in the southeastern province of Guangdong, launched what it calls AI-powered dolls at end of 2016 that offer features ranging from simple conversation to moving eyes, arms and torsos. Customers can personalize their dolls by choosing various appearance options including height, hairstyle and eye color.

Amid Beijing's push to turn the country into an artificial intelligence (AI) powerhouse and embed the technology in all facets of life, some Chinese entrepreneurs are taking the expertise to a new frontier: sex dolls. WMDOLL, one of China's biggest sex doll makers, which is based in the southeastern province of Guangdong, launched what it calls AI-powered dolls at end of 2016 that offer features ranging from simple conversation to moving eyes, arms and torsos. Customers can personalize their dolls by choosing various appearance options including height, hairstyle and eye color. AI features on the dolls are still very basic: they can answer questions but cannot hold longer conversations. The doll uses vocabulary by connecting to a database supported by Chinese tech giant Baidu.

Automation is good, so long as you know exactly where to put the machine, or so the saying goes. Being the boss of small or medium size enterprise can be a blessing or a curse, depending how one looks at the conundrum. On the one hand, you're the top dog, the man on the throne, to whom all look up to in times of need. On the other hand, you are likely to be mired in a myriad of tasks, from administration and customer meetings to, well, running the business. In a way, you may be a Jack of All Trades and master of none.

Nowadays, it is quite clear that Chatbots are much more than just a trend. More and more companies offer a chatbot as part of their variety of interfaces. However, as chatbots become a common practice, the need for smarter bots arises. Smart bots can do much more than the simple chatbots. Powered by advanced machine learning capabilities, such as image analysis, NLP and text analytics, these smart bots can understand concepts in a sentence, identify objects within an image and extract entities and sentiment in a given text.

In addition to compelling keynote speakers, the Business Insider IGNITION 2016 conference included panels of experts who shared their deep, insightful knowledge. One such panel included Dennis Mortensen, CEO and founder of x.ai; Michael Roberts, head of Messenger at Kik Interactive; and Alex Wellen, chief product officer at CNN. They sat down at IGNITION 2016 to discuss smart bots and how they're affecting life as we know it. CNN is focused on making news available using bots. With the use of voice-activated digital assistants such as Alexa, Siri, and Cortana, news can be delivered in new ways.

Low paying jobs seem to be more at risk of a robot takeover, but a new developed has suggests that not even highly paid Wall Street jobs are safe. Goldman Sacs has published a job posting seeking a software developer to build a'robot adviser' that provides mass affluent clients with'detailed information on their financial portfolio and analytics'. The move comes as Goldman is looking at ways to broaden its customer base outside the super wealthy, including making deeper inroads into new consumer-focused businesses. Goldman Sacs has published a job posting seeking a software developer to build a platform that gives mass affluent clients'detailed information on their financial portfolio and analytics' According to the job posting, Goldman Sachs wants to leverage'a global technology platform offering an integrated suite of tools and applications to service clients. 'Digital innovations to shape client experience and enable our Institutional and Third-Party Distribution (TPD) salesforce with the tools required to best serve our clients,' the listing reads.

We are slowly getting used to relying on technology to help us out in nearly every aspect of our lives, so it makes sense that banks are turning to the newest "small" innovation, chatbots, to help guide you, the customer, through your everyday banking interactions.Whether the chatbot reminds you how much you have spent on coffee so far this week, or talks you through setting up a new account, banks are putting a lot of stock in bots in banking being the "next big thing" in 2017. However, according to Forrester's Peter Wannemacher, the chatbots of today won't be able to keep up in the high-stakes world that is banking now. Wannemacher is confident about bots in banking--he just doesn't think that the technology is where it needs to be to offer the most right now.He says that banks are investing in technology that will help make the next generation bots, which will really have an impact on the industry. This basically just means that there is plenty of work to be done when it comes to bots in banking, but the chatty bot that takes care of front-end work is coming soon and will really improve the customer experience. It is easy to see bots in banking as the bright new trend of 2017: many tech companies are already spending a good deal of resources developing bots just for the financial services industry.