Pizza Hut is building an AI that it says will recommend food to you based on your local weather

Pizza Hut plans to use AI tech to recommend orders to customers based on the weather in their location, the company's data chief told VentureBeat. The restaurant chain is building its own in-house AI technology to understand more about what its customers want, Tristan Burns, Pizza Hut Digital Ventures' global head of analytics, told VentureBeat in an interview. "Part of our machine learning program is to ingest customer behavior and a little bit about who customers are, where in the world they are, what the weather might be at their location, and then surface relevant product recommendations to them during their experience," Burns said, per VentureBeat. Burns told VentureBeat that Pizza Hut was in the early stages of developing the technology. He did not give details about how the weather would affect its recommendations.