Digital assistants set to outnumber people by 2021

The number of digital assistants installed is on track to exceed 7.5 billion by 2012, which is more than the world population. According to technology research company Ovum, Google Assistant will dominate the voice AI–capable device market with 23.3 percent market share, followed by Samsung's Bixby (14.5 percent), Apple's Siri (13.1 percent), Amazon's Alexa (3.9 percent), and Microsoft's Cortana (2.3 percent). Ovum's study finds that smartphones and tablets are leading the market for voice AI, with 3.5 billion active devices in 2016, most of which use Google Now and Apple Siri. However, the use of AI in conjunction with other… [Continue Reading]