Pretty sure digital assistants are on the rise right now. Afaik expert systems are used in medicine, and I suppose some chat bots qualify as them too, though I

Pretty sure digital assistants are on the rise right now. Afaik expert systems are used in medicine, and I suppose some chat bots qualify as them too, though I think people will try to drop manually programming the rules at some point. Since we're finally marching straight into a scifiey cyberpunkish future, I'm sure these two things will be around.