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EP092 - Artificial Intelligence Deep Dive

Jul 12, 20171 hr 12 min
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EP092 - Artificial Intelligence Deep Dive

 

"We're in the middle of an obvious disruption right now: machine learning and artificial intelligence. It is a renaissance, it is a golden age. We are solving problems that were in the realm of science fiction for the last several decades." - Jeff Bezos

This episode is a deep dive into all the use-cases for Artificial Intelligence and machine learning in retail.

Insight Generation

  • Analytics - Google Automated Insights
  • Multi-Variable Regression Testing (Correlation) 
  • Targeting - Best Audience / Next Best $
  • Social Listening / Sentiment
  • Campaign Attribution / ROI

Business Acceleration

  • Inventory Management/Forecasting
  • Merchandise Compliance
  • Checkout - such as Amazon Go
  • Product Design - such as Stichfix
  • Tagging/Unstructured Data
  • Fraud
  • Price/Promotion Optimization
  • Logistic Optimization
  • Drone Delivery

Customer Engagement

  • Natural Language Assistants
  • Virtual Agents
  • Guided Selling
  • Visual Search
  • Search
  • Recommendations 
  • Fitment/Return Avoidance
  • Personalization
  • Loyalty/Retention

AI Vendors Discussed

General:

    1. IBM Bluemix Watson 
    2. Google Cloud Platform 
    3. Microsoft Azure
    4. Amazon AWS  -  including DSSTNE (pronounced “destiny”), the Amazon recommendation engine

Retail Specific Vendors:

  1. Twiggle - Search
  2. Sentient.ai - Visual Search/ Personalization/ Recommendations
  3. Clarifai.com - Visual Search / Video
  4. Simbe Robotics - “tally” Robot / Shelf Audit / Inventory
  5. Focal Systems - Computer Vision / Inventory
  6. Luminoso -  Analytics

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Episode 92 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Monday July 10, 2017.

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Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at SapientRazorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing.

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