Ubiquitous Digital Assistants

Published 2020-03

Digital assistants (DAs)—like Siri, Alexa, and their Chinese counterpart Tiān Māo from Alibaba—use semantic and natural language processing, along with our data, in order to anticipate what we want or need to do next, sometimes before we even know to ask.

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Verdict

persistedThe same trend is listed again within the publisher's next two editions (D33).

Same subject listed again in 2021.

A trend is graded on whether the publisher keeps it, never as a hit or a miss (D6, D33).

The same forecast in other editions

2019rank 2
2020rank 53
2021rank 33

All captured fields

rank: 53
section: Artificial Intelligence
subsection: Consumer Products and Services
subject: Ubiquitous Digital Assistants
page: 46
confidence: medium
note: Title from the contents list in the SlideShare transcript of the publisher upload; order and section from contents page numbers. Quote added 2026-10-02 from the full slide transcript of the publisher upload (SlideShare, Wayback capture of the newer page format); source_url points at the section that holds the page.