“KPMG India has announced the aqui-hire of Mumbai-based AI-led decision-science services company Recommender Labs. With this, KPMG is poised to build its own Centre of Excellence (CoE) specialising in decision-science and AI-driven solutions. It will build unique assets, enable quick go-to-market, and build the ability to respond with AI-led offerings, by combining its capabilities with…
Month: June 2019
When AI Becomes an Everyday Technology – HBR
Andrew Moore is Head of Google Cloud AI LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/andrew-moore-016b751 “At its core, AI is about automating judgments that have previously been the exclusive domains of humans. A deployed AI solution works backwards from the existing needs of the people who will use it. Sooner or later, every technology transitions from an elite niche to…
Amazon re:MARS Announcements and Highlights
Amazon in 1999 was “relying primarily on Skip” to manage package fulfillment. Skip isn’t an algorithm, he said — “Skip is a dude.” Amazon Launches Image Search For Fashion “Now, according to reports, Amazon’s Consumer Worldwide CEO Jeff Wilke has announced a new AI-powered fashion search tool called StyleSnap, designed to help customers find clothes…
eCommerce Business Gets 30% More Sales Using AI Chatbot & Reveals the Secret in a New Book
“The eCommerce business, Paper Models, Inc., which provides downloadable paper models for school projects since 1999, has received 30 percent increase in sales after adding an AI chatbot to their website https://www.PaperModelsOnline.com, achieving the highest monthly sales in more than 10 years.” https://www.prweb.com/releases/ecommerce_business_gets_30_more_sales_using_ai_chatbot_reveals_the_secrete_in_a_new_book/prweb16354868.htm
Amazon drone “Prime Air” to be up and running “within months” – Jeff Wilke
YouTube: https://youtu.be/HydLO5jWNEI “The ecommerce company says the unmanned aircraft uses AI and other advanced tech to safely fly and avoid obstacles. The FAA has certified both Amazon and a service being developed by Google-parent Alphabet to introduce commercial drone deliveries in 2019. The demonstration is part of an Amazon project, dubbed Prime Air, that aims…