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Today, Chris explores Shopify Magic and other AI offerings with Mike Tamir, Distinguished ML Engineer and Head of Machine Learning, and Matt Colyer, Director of Product Management for Sidekick. They talk about how Shopify uses generative AI and LLMs to enhance their products, and they take a deeper dive into Sidekick, a first-of-its-kind, AI-enabled commerce assistant that understands a merchant’s business (products, orders, customers) and has been trained to know all about Shopify.

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51:39
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2024-12-11 22:15
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https://changelog.com/practicalai/299
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Today, Chris explores Shopify Magic and other AI offerings with Mike Tamir, Distinguished ML Engineer and Head of Machine Learning, and Matt Colyer, Director of Product Management for Sidekick. They talk about how Shopify uses generative AI and LLMs to enhance their products, and they take a deeper dive into Sidekick, a first-of-its-kind, AI-enabled commerce assistant that understands a merchant’s business (products, orders, customers) and has been trained to know all about Shopify.

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0 Welcome to Practical AI
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1041 Sponsor: Timescale
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1198 Find your way out of the forest
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1409 Other products
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1637 Plugging in the ecosystem
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1845 Sponsor: Eight Sleep
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196 What is Shopify?
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2009 What is Magic?
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2050 Adding more AI capabilities?
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2410 Finding utility in other tools
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2657 Looking to the future
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3023 Thanks for joining us!
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3050 Outro
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310 What sets Shopify apart?
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35 Sponsor: Fly
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369 Wide array of customers
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481 The Ai turning point
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552 Shopify's mission
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633 Approaching different models
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703 Strengths and weaknesses of different perspectives
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891 Growing pains
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