Robots are probably the first thing you think of when asked to imagine AI applied to industrials and manufacturing. Indeed many innovative companies like Rodney Brooks’ Rethink Robotics have developed friendly-looking robot factory workers who hustle alongside their human colleagues. Industrial robots have historically been designed to perform specific niche tasks, but … [Read more...] about 4 Key Differences Between Industrial And Consumer AI
Business
AI Is Turning Supply Chain Logistics Into Automated Trading
Ever wonder how your Amazon Prime packages show up at your door mere hours after you place an order? A complex series of operations connects suppliers to manufacturers to wholesalers to retailers to you, the end consumer. Oversight of this process is called supply chain management (SCM). Within SCM, logistics is the portion that handles the movement of goods. E-Commerce … [Read more...] about AI Is Turning Supply Chain Logistics Into Automated Trading
Hate Recruiting? These 10 Companies Automate Hiring For You
Chatbots in the enterprise are already working side by side with their human counterparts and employees like Uber drivers spend their entire day reporting to an algorithm. Probably won’t be long before we’re interviewed and managed by robots. With human resources, AI and machine learning can take away the heavy lifting involved with recruiting. HR personnel with more … [Read more...] about Hate Recruiting? These 10 Companies Automate Hiring For You
Smarter AI Means Safer, Speedier Telecom Networks
With more than 12,500 patents, 8 Nobel prizes, and a 140 year history of field-testing crazy ideas, no one should be surprised that AT&T would be an important player in artificial intelligence. “AT&T is a backbone of the internet,” explains Nadia Morris, Head of Innovation at the AT&T Connected Health Foundry. The company manages wireless, landline, and even … [Read more...] about Smarter AI Means Safer, Speedier Telecom Networks
How 26 Top Marketing Executives Use Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming all digital industries and marketing is no exception. We asked 26 top marketing executives and entrepreneurs to share how they’ve leveraged A.I. and machine learning technologies to improve their products, simplify their customers’ lives, and address the top pain points in the industry. 1. Eric Stahl, SVP at … [Read more...] about How 26 Top Marketing Executives Use Artificial Intelligence
How AI Can Solve The Top 3 Pain Points In Marketing
3,874. That’s how many companies are featured on Scott Brinker’s behemoth 2016 Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic, which drives home the challenge of navigating the marketing industry. "Marketing has the unique challenge of not having a typical stack or process. If you look into any Fortune 500 company, they will have hundreds of products that they are … [Read more...] about How AI Can Solve The Top 3 Pain Points In Marketing
100 Best Bots For Brands & Businesses
You’d never expect Mark Zuckerberg, king of social networks, to publicly admit that “messaging is one of the few things that people do more than social networking,” but the evidence is now indisputable. In 2015, Business Insider reported that messaging apps overtook social networks in popularity. Since then, every major messaging product - from Messenger to iMessage, Slack … [Read more...] about 100 Best Bots For Brands & Businesses
Answer These 5 Basic Questions Before You Build A Chatbot
Here a bot, there a bot, everywhere a chatbot—there's no denying that chatbots are drawing a great deal of attention lately! You may be asking yourself, "Is now the right time for our business to hop on the chatbot bandwagon?" If so, you're not alone: Many companies are exploring the benefits of using bot technologies to support all kinds of business use cases. Just take a … [Read more...] about Answer These 5 Basic Questions Before You Build A Chatbot
What Salesforce Einstein Teaches Us About Enterprise AI
Every business has customers. Every customer needs care. That’s why CRM is so critical to enterprises, but between incomplete data and clunky workflows, sales and marketing operations at most companies are less-than-optimal. At the same time, companies who aren’t Google or Facebook don’t have the billion dollar R&D budgets to build out A.I. teams to take away our … [Read more...] about What Salesforce Einstein Teaches Us About Enterprise AI
Outsource Your Boring Back Office Paperwork To AI
There seems to be no end to what artificial intelligence can do. After thrashing humans at sophisticated games like chess and go, AI’s next conquest appears to be the workplace. Many already hold jobs at forward-looking companies across industries. Some work as customer service reps, translators and financial analysts. Others serve as lawyers, surgeons and chefs. Given that … [Read more...] about Outsource Your Boring Back Office Paperwork To AI