Walmart says AI provides 100x productivity boost

Neil McKechnie • August 16, 2024

Executives say AI is 100 times more productive at updating product pages than people


I'm frequently asked by people interested in using AI in I&R how effective it is. I've collected a number of anecdotes from clients that are compelling, and here's one from a different industry that I think is very relevant to our I&R.


"John Furner, president and CEO of Walmart U.S., said generative AI has helped the company populate the attributes and characteristics of hundreds of millions of items, and that it would have taken 100 times longer to do this manually."


This type of work sounds a lot like editing a resource database of service provider records and emphasizes one of the core benefits of using Yanzio's AI Assistants: assisting with the detailed curation of records in a manner that both streamlines the details of data editing while applying the vast range of your guidelines and best practices.


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