Gartner predicts that search engine volume will drop 25% by 2026, with search engine marketing losing to modern AI-based mediums as users turn away from traditional channels for resolving their queries. Conversational artificial intelligence is becoming a key strategic component for organizations' marketing efforts, but implementing it in daily business operations is challenging due to rising data complexity and costs. Conversational AI systems use natural language to interact with humans, enabling businesses to streamline customer interactions and boost operational efficiency. The technology offers benefits such as cost savings, scalability, better data insights, and a better customer experience. It has various use cases including healthcare, financial services, contact centers, e-commerce, and education. Conversational AI works by using natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to understand human language, modern NLP methods to convert text into word embeddings, and understanding user intent to determine the most optimal response. Building a conversational AI system requires identifying FAQs, establishing goals based on FAQs, identifying common entities, designing for intuitive conversations, simplifying the interface, implementing reinforcement learning, prioritizing data privacy and security, optimizing for multilingual support and accessibility, integrating with multiple channels, and establishing robust monitoring systems. However, developers may encounter challenges such as language data complexity and size, scaling conversational AI models, integrability, security, and using specialized third-party solutions like Encord to simplify the creation of high-performing AI models.