Description
Product leaders should use Gartner's emerging technologies and trends impact radar to explore 23 must-know technologies. We highlight four impactful technologies.
Summary
- Although virtual assistants have been around for a while, and most consumers are used to dealing with them, the application is limited and the experience can be poor.
- 1-3 years The estimated time to market is driven by the expansion of current, limited function virtual assistants (which have been around for years now) to advanced virtual assistants that target a multitude of jobs and functions — propelling the expansion of AI conversational agents into every sphere of consumer lives, business interactions and operations.
- The impact potential of advanced virtual assistants is high because the technology can be utilized in virtually every vertical segment and almost all disciplines.
- 1-3 years The time to market is driven by the effectiveness of the training tools, runtime efficiency and ease of deployment.