How Walmart in Mexico changed everything for an omnichannel future
Six years ago, Walmex—a publicly traded subsidiary of Walmart Inc. and one of Mexico’s largest retailers and employers—was a very different company from the one it is today. Since 2017, Walmex has opened more than 400 new omnichannel stores, with home delivery, drive-through pickup areas, and in-store commercial kiosks where even customers who transact in cash […]
Amazon ‘enhances’ reviews with AI while Snap’s goes rogue
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of the last week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. Amazon announced that it’ll begin tapping generative AI to “enhance” […]
Top 5 Emerging Technologies in 2023 and Beyond
1. Generative AI Forrester defines generative AI as a set of technologies and techniques that leverage massive amounts of data to generate new content such as text, video, images, audio and code in response to natural language prompts or other noncode and nontraditional inputs. Benefits of using generative AI include improved digital experiences via natural language interactions, […]
Artificial Intelligence: Cheat Sheet
What is artificial intelligence? AI is largely a pattern-recognition tool that can run at a scale that’s dramatically beyond any human, yet never quite replaces humans. Even at its best, AI delivers acceptable, though not perfect results, giving people the ability to step in, observe the data and reason from there. Note that while we […]
Generative AI and the future of work in America
The US labor market is going through a rapid evolution in the way people work and the work people do. Months after MGI released its last report on the future of work in America, the world found itself battling a global pandemic. Since then, the US job market has come roaring back from its sudden drop. […]