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My Encounters with AI

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Artificial intelligence has become a very rapidly growing industry that has began being incorporated in almost every industry. The first time that I encountered the use of AI first hand was a year and a half ago while selling solar panels. My first few months the job consisted of going from door to door hoping that the lead would open the door. There was no way to predict the good or the bad houses and also no infrastructure to allow us to keep track of good or bad leads. This persisted for about 6 months and then the salesman were provided a personal I pad.     That I pad included a software that helped us input information from each encounter with clients. Such as if the deal was successful, if you were able to get personal info such as a phone number, email, etc.. The AI then would take that information it and use its algorithm to create predictions. With the help of this software and about a month of data input it began to help us immensely. It first was able to predi...