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Artificial Intelligence - Anyone? (10)

04-26-2017 09:46 PM #1 nirvana (Member)
Artificial Intelligence - Anyone?

Hi guys,

Anybody looking to chat about this topic hit me up!

I have nothing to offer, just looking to connect.

04-26-2017 09:50 PM #2 jessejames (Member)

AI in what context?

04-26-2017 10:12 PM #3 nirvana (Member)

Machine learning

04-27-2017 12:17 AM #4 xxf8xx (Member)

There's a tracker called Track Revenue that offers this. I've never tried it though.

04-27-2017 05:39 AM #5 manu_adefy (Veteran Member)

Did you have a look at Amazon's Machine Learning? I have it on my list to check out later on, lower priority but still interesting if they have a good service for ML.

04-27-2017 10:07 AM #6 caurmen (Administrator)

I've looked at Amazon's ML services: interesting stuff, and potentially quite usable for AM. Basically, it's a simple, automated system for training models on data (at least as far as I could tell in an hour or so of playing around with it.)

Not sure whether the pricing model would make it practical for a lot of AM applications, though. That's still on the to-test list.

BTW, if anyone's looking for a data-mining tool for AM that's usable by non-coders and includes some ML stuff, check out Orange. Definitely my new favourite ML tool, replacing WEKA for me.

04-27-2017 03:37 PM #7 jessejames (Member)

I think it's very similar to Azure ML, which Trackrevenue uses. Along with IBM Watson.

I've used Weka briefly, and Python with Scikit, but not for AM applications -- just for funz. For gathering data now, we're working on something with node.js and Google Firebase, not necessarily for ML as we'd need tons of data for that, but to structure it and make sense of it.

04-27-2017 03:55 PM #8 azureus (Member)

Azure is just a cloud platform. So Amazon's equivalent to Azure is AWS. Amazon Machine Learning (AML) is a completely different thing even though it's a subpart of AWS. I have bookmarks full of stuff I want to learn about, haha. GoodAI, Elasticsearch, machine learning, Hadoop. But I would prefer to have a specific problem that it can solve for me (in marketing) and then apply something to it.

It's a crazy field of science. Maybe not just Elon Musk should be scared of AI but affiliate marketers as well haha.

04-27-2017 04:26 PM #9 nirvana (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by azureus View Post
Azure is just a cloud platform. So Amazon's equivalent to Azure is AWS. Amazon Machine Learning (AML) is a completely different thing even though it's a subpart of AWS. I have bookmarks full of stuff I want to learn about, haha. GoodAI, Elasticsearch, machine learning, Hadoop. But I would prefer to have a specific problem that it can solve for me (in marketing) and then apply something to it.

It's a crazy field of science. Maybe not just Elon Musk should be scared of AI but affiliate marketers as well haha.
That was awfully comforting to hear. You got the idea!

04-28-2017 10:44 AM #10 caurmen (Administrator)

Maybe not just Elon Musk should be scared of AI but affiliate marketers as well haha.
I think my STM London 2014 talk is still available on the forums somewhere - in which I talked about this exact issue.

Affiliates should definitely be scared of AI in the long term. The bigger affiliates are already using ML to gain advantages from their enormous datasets, and as time goes on more and more of what we do will be automatable.

But that doesn't mean we're all going to lose our gigs to Skynet (at least for a decade or so - there are some hard problems to solve before we get a truly automated affiliate). It more means that the affiliates who do use these tools effectively will gain a massive advantage over those who don't.

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