Harris’ Law
When a system operates optimally, when interacting with individuals or groups who mirror the makeup of its creators; yet suboptimally otherwise. – Shawn Harris
Three Quick Thoughts: Amazon Go 3000 #OPINION
Mechanical Turk at Work: Given the complexity involved in training “AI’s” to identify people, identify products, and associate and disassociate the two, I believe that humans are in the loop. Continue Reading
What is your customer data share?
By the year 2020, it is estimated that the average person will generate 1.5 GB worth of data per day. At that point, it won’t be just about your firm’s Continue Reading
#010: This Game is Not One-Dimensional, You Have to Face the Customer with Shawn Harris, Global Innovation Strategy Lead, Zebra Technologies.
In this episode of The IoClothes Podcast, we speak with Shawn Harris, Global Innovation Strategy Lead for Zebra Technologies. The reality is, innovative products don’t just sell themselves and companies Continue Reading
AI and the Final Judgement.
I believe that for the foreseeable future, human machine collaboration, which will lead to a new type of collective intelligence will be a requirement. Today, we are seeing many advances Continue Reading
Startups at the Intersection of AI and Blockchain
Decentralized Intelligence: TraneAI (training AI in a decentralized way); Neureal (peer-to-peer AI supercomputing); SingularityNET (AI marketplace); Neuromation (synthetic datasets generation and algorithm training platform); AI Blockchain (multi-application intelligence); BurstIQ (healthcare Continue Reading
Lifelong Learning
I believe that lifelong learning is essential to career success. Technology is changing every industry, and each segment within. Today, you cannot rest on your undergraduate and graduate degrees, and Continue Reading
The Technology Behind Alibaba
Highlights from a recent article in the South China Morning Post: “The widespread application of cutting-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning by the e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba Group is borne out Continue Reading
Alibaba Found Lots of Love on Singles Day 11.11.17
The Chinese’s Guanggun Jie, or Singles Day, takes place each year on 11/11. A day set aside to celebrate being proud to be single, has become one of the largest Continue Reading
In conclusion…
Retailers you can’t run from this. You can’t regard these times as being temporary in nature waiting for market improvements; this change is not cyclical, it’s structural. Focus on your Continue Reading