Category Archives: virtual assistants

AI by the Numbers: Disagreements about the Impact of Chatbots

Posted on September 26, 2019 by GilPress

Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the progress of AI, highlighted among other findings, disagreements about the impact of chatbots: Do purchase rates go down when people find out they are interacting with a chatbot? Or do … Continue reading →

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Alexa, How Many of You Have Been Sold?

Posted on February 2, 2017 by GilPress

Business Insider: According to Statista’s estimates — based in part on earlier US sales data from CIRP — total Echo device sales have more than doubled from 2015 to 2016. The amount of “skills” third-party developers have built for Alexa, meanwhile, has risen … Continue reading →

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