Photo Illustration by The New York Times; Screen grabs, via ThredUp “The prevalence of dark patterns across the web is unknown, but in a study released this week, researchers from Princeton University have started to quantify the phenomenon…researchers developed software that automatically scanned more than 10,000 sites and found that more than 1,200 of them…
Tag: AI eCommerce
Baidu CEO gets water poured on his head at company AI event
“One of China’s top tech billionaires faced an unusual interruption to his speech at a company event on Wednesday, when a man walked on stage and drenched him with water.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/07/03/tech/baidu-ceo-robin-li/index.html
Facebook open-sources DLRM, a deep learning recommendation model
“Facebook today announced the open source release of Deep Learning Recommendation Model (DLRM), a state-of-the-art AI model for serving up personalized results in production environments. DLRM can be found on GitHub” https://www.google.com/amp/s/venturebeat.com/2019/07/02/facebook-open-sources-dlrm-a-deep-learning-recommendation-model/amp/
AI predicts whether you’ll return an item before you buy it
This is one of the most informative articles that I’ve read on eCommerce return rates, driving factors and the tools being developed to help predict outcomes. “With sales anticipated to reach $4 trillion by 2020, ecommerce is an unstoppable force. It’s estimated that as high as one-third of online orders are returned, which whittles down…
Amazon’s future vision of AI, warehouse bots and Alexa
“‘[AI] is sprinkled everywhere,’ Creative Strategies analyst Carolina Milanesi said after attending re:MARS. ‘It’s an integral part of every service they offer, every product they make and every business they run.’ We’re not particularly worried about job displacement … We’re growing, we need to hire more people.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/amazons-future-vision-of-ai-warehouse-bots-and-alexa/