Some products you buy are being suggested to you by artificial intelligence.

The artificial intelligence market will be worth a lot. Like, really a lot.
A PwC report estimates that AI will contribute

$15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030. AI will make products and services better, and it's expected to
boost North America's GDP by 14% by that year

World-famous physicist Stephen Hawking thinks AI will make a lot

of jobs disappear.
Hawking is one of many deep thinkers who believe AI systems will eliminate many jobs, and not create enough
to replace them. Specifically, he said, "The automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional
manufacturing, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend this job destruction deep into the middle
classes, with only the most caring, creative or supervisory roles remaining." He's far from alone in his
views. PwC says that 38% of U.S. jobs will be vulnerable to AI over the next 15 years.
Shares of Twilio (NYSE:TWLO), one of the leading names in the
communication platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) sector, are up 47.8% so far this
year, as investors have grown increasingly bullish on its in-app communication
solutions service. The stock closed at $131.49 on Tuesday, giving it a market
cap of roughly $17.8 billion.
The cloud communications company offers application programming interfaces (APIs), allowing develop
video, voice and messaging features into their apps through voice to text AI software. Its Autopilot platfo
chatbots for businesses and contact centers as a way to scale user communications and improve custo
experience (CX) levels.