Would you like to visit a world where 17 million potential friends are just waiting for you to interact, where musicians connect with audiences and play their requests, where different languages are no longer a limit to communications and where work is no longer a requirement? A world with friendly interactions, musicians corresponding, easy communications and no work may sound magical, but it’s a place we are already moving toward as a society via the use of artificial intelligence (AI) software and robots. Current capabilities are stunning, and more are coming.Technological advancements, including deep learning and natural language processing (NLP), are leading to this world, where friends, entertainers and employees can be created and programmed to serve myriad purposes, moving automation and robotics into fields and aspects of social life that have heretofore been dominated by humans. While the move to workforce automation has been ongoing for some time, these amazing advancements are leading to a new world of possibilities, where the question for individuals, employers and marketers may soon become “Who needs real people?”