The last holiday season was replete with the sound of ads for Amazon Echo, Apple Home, Google Home, and Microsoft Cortana. All these products promise their owners the ability to speak aloud and have the receiving device trigger specific actions such as turning on the heat or reading the results

A combination of human resources and automation manage business processes. A loan application, for instance, involves the submission of specified financial documents for analysis, a human-designed algorithm for the review of the data, and human beings to shepherd the process along. Healthcare is another large sector where human beings provide