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Post by SA on Jul 21, 2017 2:00:42 GMT
This eBay ShopBot knows what you like and feeds you trendy suggestions
Our goal is to build an AI platform that enables truly personalized shopping and provides a service that is better than what the best human sales assistants can offer customers today,” he added. Two good examples of this have to do with how the AI in the ShopBot “remembers” you. It can keep track of your shirt size or the brands you like, so it won’t keep suggesting Nike when you prefer Adidas. The bot also uses computer vision — it can find similar products it knows you like based on a similar image (or an exact photo match). For now, the bot is in beta but available to any user. “We’re finding some interesting things,” says Tulsi. “Search engines have made us think before we put something in a box. Users give us short-termed queries, but we want them to give us longer queries.” The good news: Users don’t need to always describe what they want; they can take a photo and have the bot find similar items. The shopping cart is also AI-powered. Tulsi says the bot can help users track a shipment and receive notifications.
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Post by SA on Jul 21, 2017 2:01:08 GMT
I'm trying to find the good in this.....................
Been searching since I read the article earlier today.
I got nothing.
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Post by zoesam on Jul 21, 2017 2:02:44 GMT
Unfortunately they suck at AI.
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Post by val2525 on Jul 21, 2017 2:58:46 GMT
they can take a photo and have the bot find similar items.
I like this idea. The trendy suggestion idea? Not so much.
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Post by chapeaunoir on Jul 21, 2017 3:54:14 GMT
OK, so the guy on the right is OK, but the guy on the left looks like a designer jeans monster from about 2003.
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Post by RetroMonde on Jul 21, 2017 16:26:13 GMT
“Our goal is to build an AI platform that enables truly personalized shopping and provides a service that is better than what the best human sales assistants can offer customers today,”
Someone just shoot me now; this creeps me out to the depths of my soul. And the fact that all this AI is already the norm on all my/our electronics is the kicker.
Ok, aside from me being a cry-baby about sci-fi becoming reality, this is the future of e-tail etc so we've gotta get used to it. What's gonna suck is being the guinea pigs while eBay is working out the kinks in the program. I just hope they don't do anything heinous right before the holiday selling season.
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Post by chapeaunoir on Jul 21, 2017 18:17:53 GMT
You know they will.
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Post by RetroMonde on Jul 21, 2017 19:28:26 GMT
Just noticed I used the word heinous 3 time before noon; DH is banned from reading me the news and talking politics for the rest of the day!
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Post by sunsetpainter on Jul 21, 2017 20:49:28 GMT
Just noticed I used the word heinous 3 time before noon; DH is banned from reading me the news and talking politics for the rest of the day! LOL! DH has banned me from watching the news while he is home. I yell at the TV too much and too loudly! ETA: And I say bad words...lots of bad words! lol |
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Post by chapeaunoir on Jul 21, 2017 21:13:37 GMT
Just noticed I used the word heinous 3 time before noon; DH is banned from reading me the news and talking politics for the rest of the day! LOL! DH has banned me from watching the news while he is home. I yell at the TV too much and too loudly! I read it online and pound my fist on my desk. I probably also shout HEINOUS! I then fulminate in the kitchen. The DH tells me NOT to read it at any time before bed. |
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Post by somany on Jul 22, 2017 21:07:46 GMT
IDK if the emails that are coming through are from this but I (re)searched a Misook top, only one of which came up in solds. Liz had sold it in a size medium.
Today I get an email "we want to help you get what you want" with a link to Liz's sold item and with 3 suggestions for Misook tops, two in size medium and one in size XS. So close, eBay. (Just some words of encouragement so they won't give up.).
If they can use it to improve the "more items" in our search results, that would be great, but I still get different sizes and brands with maybe only one aspect of my search that matches the results they provide.
On the page I clicked to from the email, there were also links to "other items from this seller, but the sizes were all over the place. That's the trouble I see with eBay implementation of this AI thing is that first you have to figure out what constitutes good matches/information, and it seems like they just don't know.
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