“Just a few days after VentureBeat reported that Pinterest chief technology officer (CTO) Vanja Josifovski was jumping ship for Airbnb, the game of musical chairs is continuing with news that Pinterest has hired Walmart CTO Jeremy King as its new head of engineering. The announcement comes less than 24 hours after an internal memo revealed…
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Forget Go, Google helps AI learn to book flights on the Web
“Researchers at Google’s AI labs created a couple of novel neural networks that can succeed in navigating Web forms, such as an online flight-booking site. Although baby steps at the moment, the program succeeds as well or better than some models trained using human demonstrations of pointing and clicking. “As an example, in the flight-booking…
Artificial Intelligence ‘playing a role in 84% of households this Christmas’ – NetImperative.com
Key findings: Only 20% of people say they would trust AI to help them run their perfect Christmas Day Yet 84% are already planning on using AI-powered technologies this holiday season 70 per cent will use AI-powered ecommerce platforms to do their festive shopping 67 per cent will use AI-powered music or video streaming services…
How Merchants Are Driving Conversions With Five Features – PYMNTS.com
“Just over eight in ten merchants — or 81.5 percent — had implemented site help live in the second quarter. Just over seven in 10 merchants — or 72.5 percent — had implemented free shipping in the second quarter. Approximately one-fourth of merchants — or 27.8 percent — had implemented rewards in the second quarter….
And they’re off! Black Friday, the Super Bowl of shopping, kicks off holiday season
CSONDY, GETTY IMAGES On Thanksgiving Day, the traffic flowing through mobile devices represented 68 percent of all online traffic, according to Salesforce. And 54 percent of all digital orders that day were made through smart phones, the most of any day this year and roughly 30 percent more than in 2017. Social media is also playing…