Shopping app: more on ‘THE YES’

 

As advanced in a previous article, ‘THE YES’ is a shopping app that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to create a personalised feed of items that are recommended to users.

The application spent two years in stealth mode. During this time frame, it was designing a system to pull in and standardise product data from existing brands. Using this, it will create its recommendation algorithms. Every time a customer installs the app, they are prompted with a series of questions about what they like or dislike. These recommendations are refined as they choose ‘yes’ or ‘no’ on the products shown. Hundreds of other data points, such as preferred brands, price range, size and item silhouettes, are also taken into consideration.

Ever since it was launched in May 2020, there have been more than seven million entries into the ‘THE YES’ recommendation system and its creator, Julie Bornstein advanced that the firm is on the tenth version of its algorithm.

‘THE YES’ is not the only company using artificial intelligence to reinvent the fashion industry. Google’s Cloud Business posted a research in November 2020 saying that retailers were looking to use this technology within ten different areas of their business. These include demand prediction, customer loyalty schemes and product personalisation.

Artificial intelligence is reinventing the industry 


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