Today I spoke with the founder of Upsy, a self declared AI-driven Shopping Assistant, and I wanted to share some insights with you: 1. E-Commerce sites do not want their shoppers to chat. They want conversion; 2. Chatting with converted shoppers is fine; they may want information about delivery or returns; 3. AI learns from shopping behaviour. This is different from what I have come to expect from Large Language Models, who have stopped learning and just infer; 4. Help, don't disturb: if you picture yourself in a brick and mortar store, you want to be left alone while you shop — until you don't :D Understanding this contradiction is crucial to breaking into the market.

Question for those of you who already have experience working in companies or academics in a different field: - what field are you coming from? - how much experience do you have in it? - do you have plans to use your previous experience in your data adventure, or on the contrary, you are learning data science to move forward in your main area of expertise?

Just curious, is there any material at all regarding building neural networks from scratch and fine-tuning them in this community somewhere? If so, where? Thanks!

I was wondering may be i could do something with oil production data for future forecasting.....