EP092 - Artificial Intelligence Deep Dive   "We're in the middle of an obvious disruption right now: machine learning and artificial intelligence. It is a renaissance, it is a golden age. We are solving problems that were in the realm of science fiction for the last several decades." - Jeff Bezos This episode is a deep dive into all the use-cases for Artificial Intelligence and machine learning in retail. Insight Generation Analytics - Google Automated Insights Multi-Variable Regression Testing (Correlation)  Targeting - Best Audience / Next Best $ Social Listening / Sentiment Campaign Attribution / ROI Business Acceleration Inventory Management/Forecasting Merchandise Compliance Checkout - such as Amazon Go Product Design - such as Stichfix Tagging/Unstructured Data Fraud Price/Promotion Optimization Logistic Optimization Drone Delivery Customer Engagement Natural Language Assistants Virtual Agents Guided Selling Visual Search Search Recommendations  Fitment/Return Avoidance Personalization Loyalty/Retention AI Vendors Discussed General: IBM Bluemix Watson  Google Cloud Platform  Microsoft Azure Amazon AWS  -  including DSSTNE (pronounced “destiny”), the Amazon recommendation engine Retail Specific Vendors: Twiggle - Search Sentient.ai - Visual Search/ Personalization/ Recommendations Clarifai.com - Visual Search / Video Simbe Robotics - “tally” Robot / Shelf Audit / Inventory Focal Systems - Computer Vision / Inventory Luminoso -  Analytics Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 92 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Monday July 10, 2017. New beta feature - Google Automated Transcription of the show: http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at SapientRazorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:25] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 92 being recorded on Monday July 10th 2017 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:40] Hey Jason happy Prime day Eve. Jason: [0:44] Happy Prime day Eve to you Scott. Scot: [0:47] You were recording here on July 10th Prime deals have launched the Alexa deals exclusives came out days ago I think I don't like 5 days ago and then now here at 9 to watch somebody else it's pretty exciting. Jason: [1:00] Yeah if you made a bunch of purchases yet. Scot: [1:03] Hi man I'm kind of just kind of keeping you in Iowa. One of the things I suffer from that I think I have is already have a fair number of Amazon devices so does seem to be the most discounted items and unfortunately already have a pretty full dance card there. Jason: [1:19] Yep I'm in the same boat it feels like there's a lot of deals but it's slightly tricky to identify the deals that would be personally interesting to you like as as is a problem with Amazon in many other areas Discovery is not their strength. Scot: [1:34] Yeah did see some pretty nursing with Deco and sipping pretty dramatically off younis I've seen some 30 40 50 per cent off so it's pretty pretty good. Jason: [1:43] Yeah if you haven't invested in the hardware this is definitely the right time to buy the hardware and other way to extend till I Kindles and stuff too so the lot of interesting things you can do with Kindle tablets, you can Jailbreak come and put other operating systems and stuff on them so I know a lot of people that use prime day as an opportunity to stock up on Hardware. Scot: [2:02] This is our first show in July we took a little bit of a vacation there how was your fourth of July. Jason: [2:09] It was great my mom was in town got to spend some time with her grandson and so we had a good time everyone in my family enjoys the 4th of July except MacGyver who definitely does not enjoy the 4t