![]() ![]() Socher showed how Einstein had been trained to recognize, identify and count the varieties and quantities of Coca-Cola bottles stored in one of its cooler display cabinets, simply by analyzing a photo taken with an iPad or iPhone. … leverage pre-trained image classifiers, or train their own custom classifiers, to handle a vast array of specialized image-recognition use cases. The demonstration showed off the newly launched visual recognition engine Einstein Vision, which according to the blurbs enables customers to: Longstanding customer Coca-Cola was glad to oblige, with the aid of Salesforce Chief Scientist Richard Socher, whose deep learning startup MetaMind was acquired by Salesforce a year ago for $33 million. ![]() “In a few clicks I could have this order completely automated and I could rely on Salesforce Einstein AI to make decisions for my businesss” Richard Socher, Salesforce Chief Scientist Salesforce wanted to show off the practical business benefits of its Einstein AI technology, freshly available to customers and newly supplemented by integration to IBM Watson. Visible from the wall-to-ceiling windows was the towering skeleton across the road of San Francisco’s tallest building, destined on completion to become the cloud giant’s new corporate home.Ĭo-founders CEO Marc Benioff and CTO Parker Harris blew out candles on a birthday cake to mark the eighteenth anniversary tomorrow of the now $8.4 billion revenue company‘s founding.īut the intended star of the event was the Coca-Cola cooler cabinet (see video above). The event was an intimate affair, though watched remotely by a huge online audience, held in a conference room on the 23rd floor of Salesforce’s temporary headquarters. The demonstration was part of the vendor’s customer kick-off event for its new financial year - the first in a series that will set the tone for Salesforce’s marketing from now until its annual Dreamforce conference in November. Even though it was intended as a bravura demonstration of the business potential of artificial intelligence (AI), Salesforce today perfectly captured the technology’s current limitations with the aid of a Coca-Cola cooler cabinet.
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