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How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Digital Marketing

November 16, 2018
by Tanya Wehr
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Artificial Intelligence / Big Data / chatbot

Artificial Intelligence is changing many industries and Digital Marketing is no exception. Customers today expect personalized and consistent experience across every channel. For the second edition of the “State of Connected Customer” report, Salesforce Research surveyed over 6,700 consumers globally to better understand the mindset of the modern customer. The report revealed that 80% of customers think that the experience a company provides is as important as its products or services. 57% have stopped buying […]

Digamma.ai AI Q&A Series: Jackie Snow, MIT Tech Review

February 7, 2018
by Tanya Wehr
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Artificial Intelligence / Big Data
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Digamma.ai AI Q&A Series: Jackie Snow, MIT Tech Review 1. We are in the very early stages of AI in history. Style is still so complex and there is this sense that AI is trending towards an intelligent assistant that will help us look like we shop at Saks Fifth Avenue regularly and yet do it under budget. In what areas do you believe AI will help consumers and what areas of the style and […]

Why Companies Need To Tackle Big Data With Machine Learning

November 13, 2017
by Tanya Wehr
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Big Data / Machine Learning
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By 2018, 50,000 gigabytes of data will be created per second. A significant amount of that data will be stored in corporate server farms. A report from IDG found that “[m]anaging unstructured data is growing as a challenge – rising from 31 percent in 2015 to 45 percent in 2016.” IDC’s Digital Universe report found that “the amount of data stored in the world’s IT systems” doubles every two years. On one hand, many companies are […]

Digamma.ai CEO Q&A Series: Jonas Cleveland, CEO of COSY

October 10, 2017
by Tanya Wehr
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Artificial Intelligence / Big Data / Machine Learning
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Digamma.ai CEO Q&A Series: Jonas Cleveland, CEO of COSY What transformative effects do you intend COSY to have on the retail sector? We describe COSY as an aisle intelligence company that’s using machine vision and AI to improve retail execution and inventory productivity for our customers in retail stores and warehouses. The major trend occurring in retail today is the evolution of the retail store floor into a distribution center.  This is something that COSY […]

Digamma.ai Q&A Series: Karen Ouk of mode.ai

August 8, 2017
by Tanya Wehr
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Artificial Intelligence / Big Data / Machine Learning
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Digamma.ai Q&A Series: Interview with Karen Ouk, SVP Business Development at mode.ai, which builds AI-powered B2B2C visual chatbots for retailers. 1. mode.ai’s mission is to allow users to rediscover shopping in a more visual, conversational and personalized way. Why is this relevant now on the consumer front? There are three components of our mission: visual search, conversational commerce and personalization. Visual search allows us to offer features that purely text-based search cannot accomplish. For example, say […]

Two Artificial Intelligence Trends That Will Change the World — And How To Benefit From Them (Part II)

May 4, 2017
by Tanya Wehr
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Artificial Intelligence / Big Data / Machine Learning
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Continued from Part I: Two Artificial Intelligence Trends That Will Change the World — And How To Benefit From Them 2. AI Will Touch and Change Nearly Every Job, Even White Collar Ones Blue collar jobs previously thought vulnerable to AI are now not the only ones. In fact, AI is already disrupting white collar industries and many professional jobs aren’t as safe as once thought. As Erik Sherman at Fortune commented, “researchers are beginning […]

Two AI Trends That Will Change the World — And How To Benefit From Them (Part I)

April 14, 2017
by Tanya Wehr
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Artificial Intelligence / Big Data / Machine Learning
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In a recent interview of Andrew Ng and Neil Jacobstein on AI, Wall Street Journal reporter Scott Austin claimed that, “artificial intelligence is shaping up as the next industrial revolution, poised to rapidly reinvent business, the global economy and how people work and interact with each other.” Andrew Ng is chief scientist at Chinese internet giant Baidu Inc. and co-founder of the education startup Coursera. Neil Jacobstein is chair of the artificial intelligence and robotics department […]

5 Ways Artificial Intelligence Can Make Your Business More Profitable

April 12, 2017
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Artificial Intelligence / Big Data / Machine Learning
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1. Automation Artificial intelligence is becoming so advanced that we’re currently seeing honorary disciplines being aided, though not yet replaced, with computerized assistance. Some customary journalistic tasks are already being carried out by AI, such as summarizing reports, analysis, and pulling data from A to B to gauge further intelligence. Other advancements are being made within the administrative field at a growing rate, with AI able to schedule meetings, note down important items, and take […]

What is the Difference Between Machine Learning and Big Data?

April 12, 2017
by Tanya Wehr
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Artificial Intelligence / Big Data / Machine Learning
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Machine learning has been around for a while. What has made it less attractive — until now — has been the absence of large and robust datasets. Probably one of the most famous quotes defending the power of data is that of Google’s Research Director Peter Norvig claiming that “we don’t have better algorithms. We just have more data.” In essence, the recent explosion of machine learning has been largely due to the availability of […]