“Last September, a data scientist named Peter Skomoroch tweeted: “As a rule of thumb, you can expect the transition of your enterprise company to machine learning will be about 100x harder than your transition to mobile.” It had the ring of a joke, but Skomoroch wasn’t kidding. Among the biggest obstacles is getting disparate record-keeping…
Tag: implementation
Build, buy, or both? The AI implementation conundrum – Pedro Alves, Ople
“Let’s assume you are in ecommerce, and you’re interested in predicting the likelihood of a customer checking out her shopping cart. If you are making the prediction based on factors like the previous purchase history and time spent on site, you will get a reasonable outcome. But if you are looking at factors like the…
Retailers & AI – CSA
Study: More than half of retailers ready for AI “In a move to step up their customer experiences, more retailers are embracing artificial intelligence (AI). This was according to the third quarterly ‘2017 E-commerce Performance Index,’ a report from SLI Systems. 54% of companies reported they are using or plan to add AI in the…