You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well written SQL scripts

Re:You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well ... by elchief on Monday April 23, 2018 @02:07AM (#16900882)

eh. I built a lead gen system at a fortune 1000. The heuristic SQL version brought in 10M a year. The random forest version brings in 100M a year. It saw things we didn't

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Re:You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well ... by kgdinesh on Monday April 23, 2018 @02:46AM (#16901018)

can you elaborate?

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Re:You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well ... by elchief on Monday April 23, 2018 @03:02PM (#16906390)

Built a lead generation system. Looks at searches on our site and picks out the best people for our sales team to call.

Set up a bunch of rules created by the sales team. Tweaked it over months. Made money

Then used real sales data tied back to search history and built a machine learning model. It found new patterns that the sales team hadn't thought of, and performs much better

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