AI Vendor Research: Sentient

I've begun to research different AI vendors and I thought I'd share my findings.

Vendor: Sentient

Website: sentient.ai

Offices: San Francisco & Hong Kong

Key Products:

1) Sentient Aware - Uses artificial intelligence to power an entirely new relationship between you and your customers. Understanding your product catalog at a deep and uncanny level, using both visual and data signals, Aware analyzes user actions in real time and matches their intent against your catalog.

2) Sentient Ascend - Is a conversion rate optimization solution that uses evolutionary algorithms to accelerate your testing 10-100X or more, finding winning designs faster.

Articles about Sentient:

Interview With The CEO Of The World's Highest Funded AICompany

This 'aware' AI knows what you want to buyand how to make you buy it

Articles written by Sentient:

9 Predictions for AI in 2017 by Babak Hodjat, Co-founder and chief scientist, Sentient Technologies

How AI is Transforming Retail for the Better by Andy Narayanan, Vice President of Intelligent Commerce, Sentient Technologies

Clients:

SHOES.COM & Sentient Technologies UnveilVisual Filter – the World’s First AI Shopping Experience

Founders:

ANTOINE BLONDEAU, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer LinkedIn Profile

BABAK HODJAT, Co-founder and Chief Scientist LinkedIn Profile

Artificial Intelligence: 5 key attributes of all modern AI systems by Richard Harris

This is a really interesting interview with Monte Zweben - former NASA Deputy Chief of AI.

He shares the 5 key technology attributes of AI are: Data Ingestion, Adaptive, Reactive, Forward-looking and Concurrent.  Check out the article 5 Key Attributes of...AI Systems by Richard Harris for the full explanation and details.

5 Bleeding-Edge Brands That Are Infusing Retail With Artificial Intelligence Starbucks, Lowe's and others roll out robots

5 Bleeding-Edge Brands...With AI is a terrific article by Lauren Johnson in AdWeek. This is my favorite quote, "This allowed us to condense six months to a year's worth of testing into 30 days."

"Shoppers who use the AI tool convert more often than those who do not. And the average order value is 'a mid double-digit percentage' better for shoppers who use AI compared to average shoppers, says Cal Bouchard, The North Face's vp of digital commerce and experience."

"'It is not a single algorithm that's used across the entire population,' Gerri Martin-Flickinger, evp and chief technology officer at Starbucks, told the audience during Starbucks' Investor Day last month. 'It's actually a data-driven AI algorithm based on your own preferences, your own behavior as well as behaviors that we're trying to drive.'"