Why Commerce Players Must Invest In Artificial Intelligence Today

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So I found this really interesting article on Forbes today :

The power of artificial intelligence (AI) to transform the consumer journey dominated the conversation at Shoptalk this week. In its second year, Shoptalk brought together 5,000-plus players across the full ecosystem to better understand the continuous evolution of how consumers discover, browse and buy in the digital era.
AI, which refers to technologies capable of performing tasks normally requiring human intelligence, goes back centuries. The idea of cognitive computing gained steam in the 1940s when Alan Turing suggested that a machine could simulate any conceivable act of mathematical deduction. While AI technologies were commercially available by the 1980s, it was not until the turn of this century that the cognitive capabilities that comprise the emerging machine intelligence trend truly took off. In 2011, IBM Watson famously beat Jeopardy champions while at the same time personal assistants, such as Siri, Google Now and Cortana, entered the mainstream conversation. In 2015, Elon Musk and others announced a $1 billion initiative to develop a friendly artificial intelligence..

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelleevans1/2017/03/23/why-commerce-players-must-invest-in-artificial-intelligence-today/#4365359d4283