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AI is Key

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AI is Key

Marketing and sales are evolving and fast. Artificial Intelligence is the key to better, faster, more personalized marketing and sales efforts.
But fear not, AI is not taking your job, even if it's taking over certain aspects of marketing and sales. AI is here to supplement what you are doing and help you do it better and faster.

What is AI?

Artificial Intelligence is the buzzword of the moment, but what is it? We won't go into the nitty-gritty technical or mathematical details, but a short definition of AI comes in handy most of the time, when people are talking about occult things.

The Encyclopedia Britannica defines Artificial Intelligence as "artificial intelligence (AI), the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings."

In contrast, Amazon, one of the organizations that has AI and machine learning built into its DNA, defines AI as "the field of computer science dedicated to solving cognitive problems commonly associated with human intelligence, such as learning, problem solving, and pattern recognition."

Practical definitions of AI

Both definitions tell us a bit about AI, but what does it mean? Like, really mean for your day-to-day job?
Nowadays, we're used to computers and programs helping us do something at scale. You need to reach out to a couple of people? Here is an email. Need a way to do calculations on huge tables? Enter Excel.
These are dumb tasks, computers help us do things a little more on scale, help us with easy tasks like doing calculations at scale, but the computer itself does not help us in problem solving (Ever tried to do something more sophisticated in Excel? Yeah, we've all been there. You got the point).
And now AI. What makes Artificial Intelligence so special? Machine Learning, a subfield of AI, is often defined as a computer gathering information out of data without explicitly being programmed to do so.

Provides some insight, but still not entirely satisfactory as an explanation. Let's take a look at how Mnemonic AI utilizes artificial intelligence to create buyer and marketing personas.
Or, better yet, what you no longer need to do to get your personas shipped to content creation, UX, and sales.

After conducting interviews, questioning consumers and prospects, the fun part starts. You need to analyze all the answers given, look for underlying patterns, gather financial information, and somehow tie them to the surveys. One sentence of tasks that, in practice, result in hundreds of hours of number crunching, reading through answers, and making sense out of it. In this process, you talk to sales, customer service, and anyone who might have a picture of customers, and try to incorporate all this input into your personas.
And all you originally want to do is bring your marketing campaigns to the next level.

Here is how Menmonic AI chimes in and takes on the tedious tasks of analysis and persona creation.

If we go back to the definition of AI, "solving cognitive problems commonly associated with human intelligence, such as learning, problem solving, and pattern recognition," we're at the heart of what Mnemonic AI does. Our AI understands human language, so it sifts through your surveys, interviews, and customer data and finds patterns in that data. Adding other data in the mix, like click-stream data, social, metadata, or reviews, gives our AI enough leverage to create the personas for you, understanding the underlying structure of what customers want, expect, fear, and adore.

You see, no one wants to take your job from you. AI helps you do your job more efficiently and effectively, without spending hours manually reviewing everything.

Phil Wennker

Phil Wennker

CTO

Co-founder and Principal Research Scientist of Mnemonic AI. Extensive background in research spanning academia, government, and the private sector.