AI in Marketing 101

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Marketing 101

These days there is a lot of buzz in the marketing community about use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in marketing.

In this post I will cover some basics of AI that you need to know before you can explore how AI and ML can help you in your marketing efforts.

What is Artificial Intelligence?

There are several definitions of Artificial Intelligence or AI. The simplest one to understand is from Oracle.com: “Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to systems or machines that mimic human intelligence to perform tasks and can iteratively improve themselves based on the information they collect.”

So in a nutshell AI refers to machine, which can learn and become intelligent like humans.

AI is an umbrella term that includes algorithms, concepts, tools, technologies etc. that perform these complex human like tasks.

One of such and widely used concept in AI is Machine Learning. Keep in mind that all machine learning is AI but not all AI is Machine Learning as AI include much more than just Machine Learning (ML).

What is Machine Learning (ML)?