Blessing or Burden: Is Conversational AI the Right Choice for Your Business?

Ricardo Baeza-Yates
5 min readJun 20, 2020

From small mom-and-pop shops to multi-million-dollar corporations, all businesses face similar challenges when it comes to building a brand, increasing consumer engagement and gaining a competitive edge. Technological advancement has historically aided in this effort. For example, thanks to computers and the Web, online shopping has become a convenient way for many brands to reach new customers, expand geographical reach and broaden their product line. However, one could argue it has led to the death of brick and mortar…

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Ricardo Baeza-Yates

World-class expert on data science and algorithms. Director of Research at EAI Northeastern University. Former VP of Research at Yahoo Labs. ACM & IEEE Fellow.