hi everyone my name is Amina Rashad like
heard I’m the CEO of a start-up here in
Dubai an AI or an artificial
intelligence driven ecommerce platform
but before I start talking to you about
how a AI is actually related to
something as mundane as grocery shopping
I want to tell you a little bit about my
own journey in to discovering AI so I’m
a mom of two teenage sons and like many
mums I am responsible for grocery
shopping in my home
never I’m a working mom so I’ve never
really had time to do everything I want
to do and even if I had the process of
grocery shopping is boring mundane
repetitive and you know anybody who’s
ever done it knows what I’m talking
about
there just had to be a better way to do
this I mean I looked around me and in
you know twenty fifteen or sixteen at
the time when I was thinking about this
I was going about this in exactly the
same way that my mom had and her mom had
and we were doing exactly the same thing
so I really thought you know what it’s
about time that we actually do something
about it so I started researching some
sort of technology if it’s if it’s that
big of a problem touching you know that
many lives technology has to have an
answer to this
the problem with grocery shopping is
that it’s like life it’s messy there are
a lot of things that actually impact it
so what you buy for example gets
affected by the weather whether we’re in
school season or not whether you have
guests and so on and so forth and it’s
this ever-changing kind of dynamic when
you program technology you almost have
to know what you know what you’re
solving what the problem is and how to
solve it in order to program for it
because just you know top top level
logic behind programming if something is
X then you do Y you have to literally
instruct the computer to do things but
if you don’t know where how to solve the
problem or what the issue is
it’s very diff
for traditional programming you can
actually solve it technology-wise
however that is not the case with AI and
we’ll talk about how you know how AI is
different the process for AI is is quite
different and I think in order for you
to understand it a little bit I’m gonna
go through a couple of definitions as to
what really is involved in AI so
artificial intelligence is this nebulous
term that people use and I want to sort
of vary zero in on what the definition
is the definition really is very simply
the concept of teaching a computer to
think like we do so when you think about
what we do what our brains do we
understand we reason we plan we decipher
language and and and react to it and so
on the real driver or technology behind
that process of teaching a machine or a
computer to do what we do is machine
learning a technological machine
learning which essentially is allowing a
computer to process streams of data with
minimal programming so you don’t have to
know what you’re looking for you could
just allow the technology to connect the
dots and cran and see and identify
patterns and learn from those patterns
and then teach itself to learn from new
patterns and so on so all you have to do
is to find the problem structure a data
infrastructure to capture that you know
those slows those those large amounts of
data that we’re now able to capture and
have them sit back and have the Machine
actually connect the dots in and and
teach you this is now possible because
of certain developments in technology
like processing power for example or the
ability to store large amounts of data
and and and so on which was not common
placed or reachable for most businesses
just a couple of years ago other things
that AI is able to kind of avail for
most businesses are for example you hear
terms like IOT
or the internet-of-things what is that
that basically is a network of millions
of devices connected learning from their
own data streams and sharing this data
in order to enable functions across
different devices we’re gonna talk today
about how for example your fridge can be
an IOT enabled device language
processing is another natural language
processing so the ability for AI to
actually go through language streams and
decipher things like sentiment for
example is she angry is she happy how do
I react and so on these are just
predictive analytics for example so
looking at historical data and then
using that data connecting the dots
there to predict things in order to
reduce your risk and so on and so forth
so enough with the definitions and let’s
talk a little bit about how that helped
me personally by the way I have zero
technical background like literally I
have not studied computer science
whatsoever
I’m a business person with a problem I
didn’t want to do my grocery shopping
and III just had to get my arms around
this new technology and do something
with it so much so the pain point was so
big that actually started a company to
develop the technology to do something
about it for me and for you know parents
who are like me so what does all of this
help you do big picture it actually
helps you do several things one is it
helps you understand the magnitude of
risk that you’re actually taking in any
given decision be it in marketing being
in source seeing being in whatever else
that you’re trying to do quantify it
prioritize it and then actually decide
to put resources behind it to do
something about it an example would be
you have a bunch of suppliers who are
late you don’t know why they’re late you
don’t know who’s late you just know
there’s a problem of some sort
if you program the artificial
intelligence actually collect the data
around certain points for example
accuracy of delivery or out of stock
situations with
pliers or the expiry date issues that a
particular supplier has and then it
connects the dots it allows you to see
things that you would not have been
otherwise able to see for example
suppliers who are always late
seem to have a problem with their expiry
dates or whatever it is something that I
didn’t know I was looking for in the
first place and in doing so allows me to
make decisions like you know what I’m
gonna have to have about three other
backup suppliers for this particular
product or I’m gonna buy from supplier B
because you know the a and C have a
problem of some sort and so on you can
also do the same thing when it comes to
your consumers so an example would be not all I’m sorry to say this
heard I’m the CEO of a start-up here in
Dubai an AI or an artificial
intelligence driven ecommerce platform
but before I start talking to you about
how a AI is actually related to
something as mundane as grocery shopping
I want to tell you a little bit about my
own journey in to discovering AI so I’m
a mom of two teenage sons and like many
mums I am responsible for grocery
shopping in my home
never I’m a working mom so I’ve never
really had time to do everything I want
to do and even if I had the process of
grocery shopping is boring mundane
repetitive and you know anybody who’s
ever done it knows what I’m talking
about
there just had to be a better way to do
this I mean I looked around me and in
you know twenty fifteen or sixteen at
the time when I was thinking about this
I was going about this in exactly the
same way that my mom had and her mom had
and we were doing exactly the same thing
so I really thought you know what it’s
about time that we actually do something
about it so I started researching some
sort of technology if it’s if it’s that
big of a problem touching you know that
many lives technology has to have an
answer to this
the problem with grocery shopping is
that it’s like life it’s messy there are
a lot of things that actually impact it
so what you buy for example gets
affected by the weather whether we’re in
school season or not whether you have
guests and so on and so forth and it’s
this ever-changing kind of dynamic when
you program technology you almost have
to know what you know what you’re
solving what the problem is and how to
solve it in order to program for it
because just you know top top level
logic behind programming if something is
X then you do Y you have to literally
instruct the computer to do things but
if you don’t know where how to solve the
problem or what the issue is
it’s very diff
for traditional programming you can
actually solve it technology-wise
however that is not the case with AI and
we’ll talk about how you know how AI is
different the process for AI is is quite
different and I think in order for you
to understand it a little bit I’m gonna
go through a couple of definitions as to
what really is involved in AI so
artificial intelligence is this nebulous
term that people use and I want to sort
of vary zero in on what the definition
is the definition really is very simply
the concept of teaching a computer to
think like we do so when you think about
what we do what our brains do we
understand we reason we plan we decipher
language and and and react to it and so
on the real driver or technology behind
that process of teaching a machine or a
computer to do what we do is machine
learning a technological machine
learning which essentially is allowing a
computer to process streams of data with
minimal programming so you don’t have to
know what you’re looking for you could
just allow the technology to connect the
dots and cran and see and identify
patterns and learn from those patterns
and then teach itself to learn from new
patterns and so on so all you have to do
is to find the problem structure a data
infrastructure to capture that you know
those slows those those large amounts of
data that we’re now able to capture and
have them sit back and have the Machine
actually connect the dots in and and
teach you this is now possible because
of certain developments in technology
like processing power for example or the
ability to store large amounts of data
and and and so on which was not common
placed or reachable for most businesses
just a couple of years ago other things
that AI is able to kind of avail for
most businesses are for example you hear
terms like IOT
or the internet-of-things what is that
that basically is a network of millions
of devices connected learning from their
own data streams and sharing this data
in order to enable functions across
different devices we’re gonna talk today
about how for example your fridge can be
an IOT enabled device language
processing is another natural language
processing so the ability for AI to
actually go through language streams and
decipher things like sentiment for
example is she angry is she happy how do
I react and so on these are just
predictive analytics for example so
looking at historical data and then
using that data connecting the dots
there to predict things in order to
reduce your risk and so on and so forth
so enough with the definitions and let’s
talk a little bit about how that helped
me personally by the way I have zero
technical background like literally I
have not studied computer science
whatsoever
I’m a business person with a problem I
didn’t want to do my grocery shopping
and III just had to get my arms around
this new technology and do something
with it so much so the pain point was so
big that actually started a company to
develop the technology to do something
about it for me and for you know parents
who are like me so what does all of this
help you do big picture it actually
helps you do several things one is it
helps you understand the magnitude of
risk that you’re actually taking in any
given decision be it in marketing being
in source seeing being in whatever else
that you’re trying to do quantify it
prioritize it and then actually decide
to put resources behind it to do
something about it an example would be
you have a bunch of suppliers who are
late you don’t know why they’re late you
don’t know who’s late you just know
there’s a problem of some sort
if you program the artificial
intelligence actually collect the data
around certain points for example
accuracy of delivery or out of stock
situations with
pliers or the expiry date issues that a
particular supplier has and then it
connects the dots it allows you to see
things that you would not have been
otherwise able to see for example
suppliers who are always late
seem to have a problem with their expiry
dates or whatever it is something that I
didn’t know I was looking for in the
first place and in doing so allows me to
make decisions like you know what I’m
gonna have to have about three other
backup suppliers for this particular
product or I’m gonna buy from supplier B
because you know the a and C have a
problem of some sort and so on you can
also do the same thing when it comes to
your consumers so an example would be not all I’m sorry to say this
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