How Walmart decides which artificial intelligence projects to pursue

WALMART is a giant retail organization that managed to keep up with its customer's changing needs in the digital era, delivering groceries and everyday essentials as efficiently as delivering on expectations. At a recent conference, Business Insider heard Walmart Chief Digital Officer Bill Groves talk about the organization's journey to digital. Groves revealed that Walmart employs roughly 1,500 data scientists and 50,000 software engineers who support the 100,000-odd artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) projects that the organization currently runs. "I do more work in the AI and [machine learning] space then I have ever done in my life. We're involved in robotics, we're involved in micro-personalization, we're involved in probably the biggest supply chain in the world." The important thing, however, is that Groves said that Walmart's success rate with AI and ML projects is 75 percent.