This Emerj AI Research consensus addresses the most important AI consumer tech trends in the next 5 years.

1. TECHEMERGENCE CONSENSUS:
AI AND CONSUMER TECHNOLOGY
The data from this consensus was collected June 2016

2. In this TechEmergence Consensus, we contacted a
total of 35 artificial intelligence startup executives/
founders and asked them what they believe to be
the most important AI consumer tech trends in
the next 5 years.

3. This slide deck displays the major trends of
responses as well as some of the most poignant
quotes from the recognized experts we spoke with.

4. Access to the complete data set and all quotes
and answers from all the executives that we
connected with for our “AI Consumer Tech Pre-
dictions “as well as “AI Investor Trends” and
“Most Common AI Misconceptions in Business”
is available for free download as a spreadsheet
or Google Sheet in the link below:
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5. AI Consumer Tech Predictions in the Next 5
Years
2 4 12
NUMBER OF RESPONSES
RESPONSETYPE
VIRTUAL AGENTS/CHATBOTS
NONE
SMART OBJECTS/ENVIRONMENTS
PHYSICAL EMBODIMENT
MANY/UNDECIDED
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
PERSONALIZATION OF UX
PROCESS AUTOMATION
* RESPONSES ROUNDED TO NEAREST WHOLE NUMBER
6 8 10 14
37%
20%
11%
11%
6%
6%
6%
3%

6. We’ve selected one or two quotes from each of
the major response categories. Beneath each
quote is a link (if available) of our complete
interview with this guest on the TechEmergence
Podcast.
* These consensus answers were recorded seperately from our podcasts interviews, but most podcasts are focused on
related topics around the implications and applications of artificial intelligence.

7. VIRTUAL AGENTS/CHATBOTS
We are already seeing AI take off in the Virtual Assistant spcae.
Online search, E-commerce and Online Shopping will continue
to be an area of massive impact and growth as well.
- Dr. Ben Waber
PhD in Media Artis and Sciences | President & CEO, Humanyze
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Listen to or read our full interview with Dr. Ben Waber at techemergence.com:

8. VIRTUAL AGENTS/CHATBOTS
Truly intelligent personal assitants with which you’ll be able to
have a full conversation. They will get to know you, and your
preferences; learning from you interactively.
- Peter Voss
Founder, AGI Innovations, Inc.
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Listen to or read our full interview with Peter Voss at techemergence.com:

9. SMART OBJECTS /
ENVIRONMENTS
Smart cars, smart homes, and smart city. By “smart” I mean the
application of AI to generate usable data (e.g. real-time parking
information at global scale) from noisy and partial data.
- Eyal Amir
PhD in Computer Science | Founder, ParkNav
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Listen to or read our full interview with Dr. Eyal Amir at techemergence.com:

10. SMART OBJECTS/
ENVIRONMENTS
Basic home automation will be taken over by AI. The ability to
adapt in response to individuals is a big driver in consumer AI
technology. The biggest adoption would come from
entertainment and consumer finances.
- Ankur Modi
Master’s in Smart Systems| Founder, Status Today
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Listen to or read our full interview with Dr. Eyal Amir at techemergence.com:

11. PHYSICAL EMBODIMENT
I think we’ll see a huge leap forward in robotics and generally
the way physical machines interact with humans and the other
big development will be in UX - new intelligent user interfaces
for all kinds of services.
- Ulrik Deichsel
MS Business ESCP-EAP| Founder, micropsi industries GmbH

12. MANY/UNDECIDED
Consumer AI will transform almost everything we do. Routine
tasks like driving, food production, food preparation, cleaning,
paying bills, construction, gardening will be augmented or re-
placed with AI.
- Mark Chung
Masters in Electrical Engineering| Founder, Verdigris

13. NATURAL LANGUAGE
PROCESSING
We believe the next 5 years will see huge advances in machine
comprehension of language. This will fundamentally change
how we interact with all products and services.
- Edward Challis
PhD, Artificial Intelligence | Founder, re:infer

14. PERSONALIZATION OF UX
The definition of software and neural networks (also called
Deep Learning) will blend in: most software will be adaptive
and learn. From web searches, to image recognition, to robot-
ics, fixed, immutable systems will give way to adaptive, learning,
‘live’ systems that can learn new info.
- Dr. Max Versace
PhD in Cognitive and Neural Systems | Founder, Neurala
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Listen to or read our full interview with Dr. Max Versace at techemergence.com:

15. PROCESS AUTOMATION
We believe we will go through stages where AI technologies are
embedded or integrated to automate or improve existing pro-
cesses and applications. In particular applications where un-
structured data has to be processed or verified.
- Mohamed Sayed
Founder, Huero Labs GmbH

16. If you’ve enjoyed this presentation and you’d like
to see the full set of 33 AI researcher responses
from our AI Consumer Tech Predictions as well as
“AI Investor Trends” and “Most Common AI
Misconceptions in Business”, the entire dataset is
made freely availble in a simple spreadsheet
accessible via the form below:
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