Virtual Assistants have a huge potential in transforming business processes, like cutting down costs, training employees etc. However, it brings some challenges, along with its benefits. Will the CIOs able to overcome it? FREMONT, CA: A virtual wireless assistant is basically an engineered entity embedded in software that communicates with humans in the natural human language. This technology embodies components of communicative voice response, and other advanced artificial intelligence (AI) projects to offer skillful "virtual identities" that interact with users. The list of modern and popular virtual assistants (VA) include Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana among many others.

Artificial intelligence is all the rage these days. There's broad consensus that AI is the next game-changing technology, poised to impact virtually every aspect of our lives in the coming years, from transportation to medical care to financial services. Gartner predicts that by 2020, AI will be pervasive in almost every new software product and service and the technology will be a top five investment priority for more than 30 percent of CIOs. An area where AI is already showing enormous value is wireless networking. The use of machine learning can transform WLANs into neural networks that simplify operations, expedite troubleshooting and provide unprecedented visibility into the user experience.