4 Steps To Bringing AI-Powered Products To Market: How Lyft Builds Intelligence Into Product

4 Steps To Bringing AI-Powered Products To Market: How Lyft Builds Intelligence Into Product 960 640 C-Suite Network

Lyft’s head of machine learning Gil Arditi talked today at VB Summit 2017 about how to take AI out of the lab and into real-world products that provide competitive marketplace advantage.

Lyft, which just closed an additional billion-dollar round of financing led by Google, has an internal four-stage process, Arditi says.

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The first step, of course, is data. And it’s not just about the amount.

“You have to normalize the data, make the data very clean, and very standard,” Arditi said.

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