{"id":78187,"date":"2018-05-02T08:03:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/this-is-how-to-get-started-with-ai-when-the-only-thing-you-know-is-the-acronym"},"modified":"2018-05-04T11:08:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T18:08:15","slug":"this-is-how-to-get-started-with-ai-when-the-only-thing-you-know-is-the-acronym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/this-is-how-to-get-started-with-ai-when-the-only-thing-you-know-is-the-acronym","title":{"rendered":"This Is How to Get Started With AI When the Only Thing You Know Is the Acronym"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-is-how-to-get-started-with-ai-when-the-only-thing-you-know-is-the-acronym.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><b>1. <\/b><b>Predictive analytics<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Imagine being able to project a customer\u2019s worth as soon as he buys your service. Sounds impossible, right? Well, in the course of our AI-as-triage work, we helped a leading online registry predict the lifetime value of its patrons within a few days of sign-up with 90 percent accuracy. Now, the registry can make more informed decisions about its customer service, delivering as much value as possible to its most loyal users.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, creating a predictive solution requires a complete record of your customer interactions. Building this database takes time, but many of the necessary components are available off the shelf. Even if predictive analytics are a way off for your business, start collecting customer data now so you\u2019ll have it when you decide to tap into AI.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/312640\">https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/312640<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Predictive analytics Imagine being able to project a customer\u2019s worth as soon as he buys your service. Sounds impossible, right? Well, in the course of our AI-as-triage work, we helped a leading online registry predict the lifetime value of its patrons within a few days of sign-up with 90 percent accuracy. Now, the registry [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78299,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78187\/revisions\/78299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}