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Computers, like many other technologies, were originally made for the 1 percent. More than 50 years ago, people would be as likely to touch a computer as to perform brain surgery. It wasn’t until ...

We’re in the midst of a fundamental shift in how people interact with computers. What started as an impressive novelty has become a trillion-dollar opportunity and a trigger to an arms race between ...

How would your workday change if you could converse with a computer as if it was a human? Imagine you’re in a two-hour department meeting when your team leader says she just got budget approval for ...

Aiming to make it easier for end users to invoke a conversational interface, Pegasystems today unveiled Pega Intelligent Virtual Assistant, a bot that end users can use to verbally engage any ...

In years to come, conversations will breathe new life into software — particularly the boring enterprise tools millions of knowledge workers begrudgingly use every day. Conversational user interfaces ...

We’re at the cusp of a sharp rise in devices that have no screen but do have conversational voice controls, such as the Amazon Echo. Smart home and Internet-of-things (IoT) objects that respond to ...

It’s no surprise that digital self-service channels have experienced increased use over the past couple of years. As with many technologies, the pandemic has accelerated a number of trends that were ...

It’s 2017, and conversational interfaces (people talking with machines the same way they talk to other people) are everywhere. Siri has become a household name. Taco Bell lets you order tacos over ...

Last week I wrote on how Cortana and her peers, Apple Siri and Amazon Alexa, were likely to evolve in a VR world to become the primary interface because touch, mice, and keyboards, in a virtual world, ...

Combining voice recognition and natural language understanding to create effective speech interfaces for the world’s largest Internet market. Stroll through Sanlitun, a bustling neighborhood in ...

From deal sourcing to portfolio management, Foresight is shaping the future of how the private market engages with data Foresight is ushering in the next generation of private market software by ...