“The re:MARS conference in Las Vegas will include “visionary talks, interactive workshops, technical deep dives, roundtables, hands-on demos, and more,” an Amazon statement said. The conference called Machine learning, Automation, Robotics and Space on June 4-7 grew out of a private, invite-only event hosted by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in recent years. “We’re at the…
Month: January 2019
AI has a bias problem. This is how we can solve it
Rethinking AI “I would argue that the problems in our AI systems are not simply limitations of data or developers’ blind spots, but rather stem from our entire approach to how these systems are built. We have approached AI development from the top-down, largely dictated by the viewpoints of developed nations and first-world cultures. No…
Bold Commerce raises $16.5 million to bring AI to ecommerce stores on Shopify and elsewhere
AI in ecommerce “As is the case in pretty much every other industry, AI is increasingly infiltrating the ecommerce realm — and automation is also emerging as one of the major products in Bold Commerce’s arsenal of tools. The Bold Brain app is designed to help merchants automatically display personalized product recommendations to each of…
Former Facebook engineer picks up $15M for AI platform Spell
“In 2016, Serkan Piantino packed up his desk at Facebook with hopes to move on to something new. The former director of Engineering for Facebook AI Research had every intention to keep working on AI, but quickly realized a huge issue. Unless you’re under the umbrella of one of these big tech companies like Facebook,…
Artificial Intelligence Is Expected To Be The Most Impactful Technology On Commerce
“In the same survey, Euromonitor International also asked industry professionals what aspects of commerce would be most impacted by key technologies like artificial intelligence. In the near term, respondents expected artificial intelligence to improve customer engagement, such as tailored marketing and personalized recommendations, as well as enhanced website search. Despite the promise of these technologies,…