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Italy Considers Mini-BOTs To Pay Gov’t Vendors, Igniting Debate

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Reports in Reuters on Sunday (June 9) said Italy’s mini-BOT scheme, developed by the League party and endorsed by Parliament in May, would create small-denomination bills that don’t expire in order to pay the state’s debts. There would be no obligation for third parties to accept them.” ” Euro Fears.

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AI/BOTS: Artificial Intelligence’s Impact On Jobs

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“Chatbots are here, and there will be a lot more of them in retail by the end of 2017,” said Baird. They need to give consumers options, and they need to make sure their labor model adapts to more bot-driven interactions, so consumers don’t get frustrated.”. Research from U.K.-based

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Small Businesses At The Center Of Bots Vs Accountants

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In a 2017 report from job hunting site Indeed , researchers found that “small business accountant” was nowhere to be found in the top-10 job positions sought after by most small business employers. One way this shift has materialized is in how small businesses seek and hire financial professionals to join their companies.

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Are Robots Last-Mile Delivery’s Future?

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FedEx , for instance, recently unveiled its FedEx SameDay Bot concept, which the carrier said is in development with DEKA Development & Research Corp. The idea behind the bot is to let merchants accept customer orders and deliver them to customers on the very same day. along with DEKA Founder Dean Kamen (of Segway fame).

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AI Bots Can Help Retailers Serve Customers

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Chatbots, or virtual customer assistants (VCAs), will be used in 25 percent of customer service and support operations by 2020, up from just 2 percent in 2017. Beyond messaging, Kolacz said there might be another user for AI bots in the future.

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Chatbot Tracker: Could Bots Be Too Helpful?

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Regardless of whether all those Alexas were successful in their purchases, it begs the question if bots are being too helpful and perhaps collecting too much data from people. “It So, while nannies can relax, there is the concern that bot and AI services may be listening to those interactions, whether users are OK with it or not.

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AI/BOTS: Cognitive Chatbots, New Retail Frontier

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s research. As such, it should come as no surprise that recent IBM research indicated that 91 percent of retail executives believe cognitive computing will be a major disruptor to the industry, while 83 percent think it will have a big impact on their businesses’ future and 94 percent of merchants are planning to invest in the technology.

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