“Papa John’s International wants to inject artificial intelligence technology into how its customers order pizza through an expanded partnership with Google Cloud,” reports Reuters:
The company’s plan is to put a personalized touch – based on past customer behavior and other context – onto phone push notifications suggesting orders, marketing emails, and loyalty program offerings. It will also add a new online chatbot and the ability to order through virtual assistants. …
“The advances in technology are allowing us to do things that we couldn’t do three or four years ago,” said Kevin Vasconi, Papa Johns’ chief digital officer. “Some of it is around scalability, some of it is around security, some of it is, quite honestly, around cost”….In the future, the chain intends to roll out more AI programs to help in-store operations, such as helping plan delivery routes and count store inventories.
Scientists are using artificial intelligence to identify the trillions of viruses that live within human beings.
Viruses can be useful. Scientists have engineered a virus to steal proteins from the HIV virus, potentially eliminating AIDS.
A virus is being used to cure deafness in new gene therapy. Researchers also discovered that a plant virus could be used to save crops from root-eating pests.
Some robots using artificial intelligence can identify and kill 100,000 weeds per hour.
Robots with artificial intelligence are spreading on Japanese farms.
On some American farms, there are already drones with artificial intelligence that spray fungicides to kill pests. As Bloomberg News notes, “These aerial acrobats use less than a tenth of the energy of ground tractors — and they don’t squash the crops, rut the earth or even touch the soil.”
