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How Walmart’s Emerging Tech team is transforming retail with conversational AI

Walmart’s bold plan to bring greater scale, speed, immediacy and insight to every in-person and virtual customer interaction is transforming its customers’ retail experiences.  The Emerging Tech group at Walmart has worked with conversational AI for two and a half years, while relying on augmented reality, spatial computing and spatial awareness technologies to deliver the best customer…
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Mastercard, eBay and Capital One talk equitable generative AI and innovation

The Women in AI Breakfast, sponsored for the third year in a row by Capital One, kicked off this year’s VB Transform: Get Ahead of the Generative AI Revolution. Over one hundred attendees gathered live and the session was livestreamed to a virtual audience of over 4,000. Sharon Goldman, senior writer at VentureBeat, welcomed Emily Roberts, SVP, head of enterprise consumer product at Capital One…
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3 ways AI is already transcending hype and delivering tangible results

In January 2023, ChatGPT, the now ubiquitous chatbot from OpenAI, reached 100 million active monthly users, outpacing TikTok by seven months as the fastest platform to reach this milestone. The chatbot’s ubiquitous presence and popularity have renewed a decades-long debate about the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI). Google search trends for AI have soared since the service…
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Google drops two new big AI announcements: A better Bard and new NotebookLM service

The tsunami of new generative AI product news is showing no signs of letting up: Fresh on the heels of OpenAI’s expansion of Code Interpreter to all ChatGPT Plus users and Anthropic’s announcement of Claude 2, Google is taking the spotlight back with two big AI announcements this week. The first is a massive update to its large language model (LLM) product Bard, enabling users to upload images…
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