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Facebook Forced to Halt its Artificial Intelligence | RBDR

August 8, 2017. Today on RBDR:

1) Facebook had no choice but to halt development of its Artificial Intelligence robots when they began creating fake Facebook accounts.

2) Bombora VP Greg Herbst addresses the desperation of brands for an independent authority capable of overseeing digital ad service quality among providers and establishing standards for digital advertising.

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“Sentiment Analytics” replacing Employee Surveys | RBDR

July 20, 2017. Today on RBDR:

1) Employee engagement surveys are popular but extremely lacking in comprehending people’s emotion, leading to use of other tools such as sentiment analytics.

2) Advice for college students interested in a marketing career: focus more attention on behavioral economics and behavioral sciences as an important way of successfully dealing with data and artificial intelligence.

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MR elevated to P&G’s 3 Key Business Components | RBDR

May 8, 2017. Today on RBDR:

1) Eric Horvitz, the new head of Microsoft Research, discusses his obsession with artificial intelligence and its most prominent place in new research initiatives. Read the original feature by clicking here.
2) Procter & Gamble’s disappointing third quarter financial results prompted its CFO to reveal new business plans to Wall Street analysts. “Market Research” is one of the three key elements of the plan, dubbed “Irresistible Superiority.
3) OdinText text analysis of France’s presidential vote points to the possibility of populist Marine Le Pen’s election in spite of polls showing centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron far ahead.

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Entrepreneurial Research Decisions That Limit ROI | RBDR

January 5th, 2017. Today on RBDR:

1) Entrepreneurs fail to realize mistakes they tend to make that limit ROI. Two of six primary issues are research-related.

2) Forrester Research put its finger on 15 dynamics that will be prominent in 2017 consumer marketing, a good number of which directly relate to research.

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2nd party research use is rising. How some MRX’ers look past SM and instead at AI (RBDR 11.01.2016)

Today on RBDR:

1) Research users are upping their interest in and use of second party research. They clearly believe it is very valuable.

2) Research users have a growing interest in Artificial Intelligence, many of them seeing it as more worthwhile than coveted social media research.

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