The online shopping industry is about to get a facelift, or at least, a lift in intelligence technology. According to Entrepreneur, nearly 68 percent of online shoppers abandon their shopping carts, which has many in the ecommerce industry wondering how to hold consumer attention for longer. For the CEO of Sentient Technologies, Antoine Blondeau, the solution just might be Artificial intelligence. Here are 5 ways Artificial Intelligence could forever alter the ecommerce playing field. Hard to please shoppers just might have met their match in software designed to actually analyze images uploaded by customers and find similar, or matching, products for sale.

Artificial intelligence is the key to the future of online retail, business bosses have said, providing a crucial way to help shoppers find what they want. Alex Baldock, chief executive of Shop Direct, which runs very.co.uk and Littlewoods, told the Telegraph Festival of Business in London that artificial intelligence was the company's "big bet". "You have three seconds to seize the shopper's attention - it's called thumb stopping, the three-second audition," Mr Baldock said. "That's where personalisation comes in." Shop Direct is owned by Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay, proprietors of Telegraph Media Group, the publisher of the Daily Telegraph.

According to the heads of a number of online retailers, artificial intelligence (AI) will play a key role in the future of the industry due to how it can be utilised to aid consumers in discovering new products and identifying what they want to buy. The chief executive of Shop Direct, Alex Baldock, believes that AI could be the company's "big bet" as it will provide a significant advantage to the retailer when dealing with its customers. Baldock explained how the new technology could help its business during a panel discussing technology's role in business, saying: "You have three seconds to seize the shopper's attention – it's called thumb stopping, the three-second audition. That's where personalisation comes in." Adrian Blair, the chief executive of Just Eat, was also present on the panel and noted that his company takes 80 per cent of its orders on mobile devices.

Artificial intelligence is the key to the future of online retail, business bosses have said, providing a crucial way to help shoppers find what they want. Alex Baldock, chief executive of Shop Direct, which runs very.co.uk and Littlewoods, told the Telegraph Festival of Business in London that artificial intelligence was the company's "big bet". "You have three seconds to seize the shopper's attention - it's called thumb stopping, the three-second audition," Mr Baldock said. "That's where personalisation comes in." Shop Direct is owned by Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay, proprietors of Telegraph Media Group, the publisher of the Daily Telegraph.

Not only are online retailers competing with other online stores and brick-and-mortar locations, but also the overall noise that is the Internet. We live in a world where consumer attention span is getting shorter and shorter: 40 percent of people abandon a website that takes more than three seconds to load, and the average shopping cart is abandoned more than 68 percent of the time. I'm hard pressed to find an ecommerce site that is not constantly scrambling to engage more and drive more sales. Technology is finally helping with those efforts in a big way. Artificial intelligence (AI), which has demonstrated its value in industries like marketing, healthcare and finance, is now making a splash in online commerce.

Few industries are as competitive as ecommerce. Not only are online retailers competing with other online stores and brick-and-mortar locations, but also the overall noise that is the Internet. We live in a world where consumer attention span is getting shorter and shorter: 40 percent of people abandon a website that takes more than three seconds to load, and the average shopping cart is abandoned more than 68 percent of the time. I'm hard pressed to find an ecommerce site that is not constantly scrambling to engage more and drive more sales. Technology is finally helping with those efforts in a big way.

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The early round of Black Friday tech deals from Amazon and Dell point to some big discounts on TVs and game consoles. With just over three weeks to go until the big shopping week, we now have an idea of what to expect when it comes to a variety of other tech products. Similar to Dell, Costco and Staples will be offering deep discounts on computers. Microsoft's popular Surface Pro 4 tablet for instance, will be priced at $799.99 at Staples, a $200 discount, although the $129.99 keyboard accessory is not included. Costco will have a bundle that includes the tablet as well as the keyboard add-on for $250 off its regular price, or roughly $749.99 assuming the discount is applied to the similar bundle Costco currently offers.

Sundown AI announces their recent integration of Chloe, an Artificial Intelligence platform, with Magento, Inc. a worldwide leader in cloud digital commerce innovations. Chloe enhances mobile commerce by providing a voice powered interface for Magento Online Stores. Chloe AI can be found in the Magento marketplace: https://marketplace.magento.com/sundownai-chloe.html With Chloe, Magento website visitors now have the ability to get immediate assistance to their product or service questions directly from their smartphones while navigating through a Magento store. While explaining how Chloe works is useful, a Chloe mobile demo is even better: https://youtu.be/9hsCAfTqIHs Chloe uses proprietary technology to automatically process a company's customer service data and identify the policies that will guide her behavior.