{"id":7871,"date":"2024-09-18T04:50:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T04:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=7871"},"modified":"2024-09-18T04:50:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T04:50:56","slug":"ai-and-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/ap\/blog\/ai-and-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Your Own AI Model Probably Won&#8217;t Help Win Customers, But Data Will"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How can a brand turn a social media \u201clike\u201d into a sale? Or better yet, a loyal customer? AI gets all the attention right now, but the answer is less sexy. It\u2019s data.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Picture this. You\u2019re a global consumer retail brand with a presence across brick-and-mortar locations, an ecommerce site, and social media storefronts. A longtime in-store shopper just \u201cliked\u201d a new product on Instagram. This triggers an autonomous agent to reach out to the shopper with a personalised discount code to nudge them along to the next step.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agent shares a link to your site, where the shopper finds a bespoke shopping page, based on everything you know about them. It\u2019s like visiting a store that carries only items they love, in their size and within their budget. After the sale, autonomous agents follow up to see how they like the item, and offer a discount on complementary pieces. That shopper feels like a real VIP.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From generating automated messages to creating personalised shopping websites and post-sales service, AI is playing an increasingly pivotal role in the shopping journey. But what makes these curated digital experiences possible isn\u2019t some trillion-parameter, custom-trained <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/blog\/what-are-large-language-models\/\">large language model<\/a> (LLM) but a new kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/data\/\">data platform<\/a> that aggregates and connects the dots between each and every data point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without that connection, AI is simply not that helpful. 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Lots of it. Many businesses think if they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/blog\/adapt-or-train-your-own-llm\/\">train their own LLM<\/a> using their own data they can produce an AI model that knows everything about their business and their customers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But LLM training is very expensive, time-consuming, and requires specialized expertise. For the vast majority of companies, that option is just not feasible. Further, unlike a database, an LLM has no permission controls for data access. Then there\u2019s the issue of integrating the whole thing into all your apps and systems.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the truth is, even if you <em>could<\/em> train your own LLM, it wouldn\u2019t be 100% accurate for long. It only knows what it was last trained on. So every time you update a customer record, for example, the LLM becomes outdated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The better approach is to pair a pre-trained LLM with a data platform that pulls and marries data from multiple systems, regardless of the data\u2019s source or type. By providing the AI with a real-time stream of relevant data and context, you can vastly improve the accuracy of its outputs and quickly spot important patterns.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider our original example. Our shopper engaged with a social media post before connecting with an autonomous agent for more information. In isolation, those two interactions might not amount to much, but together they add up to a clear buying intent signal. Now imagine this at scale, for a brand that sees hundreds or even thousands of interactions like this daily. It\u2019s easy to envision a near-future where AI agents and salespeople work together to identify the most valuable opportunities and next steps to resolve a service case and secure more sales.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This future isn\u2019t limited to consumer retail. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/healthcare-life-sciences\/healthcare-artificial-intelligence\/\">healthcare<\/a>, autonomous agents can verify enrolee benefits and collate reams of patient information, insurance and pharmacy coverage details, then quickly summarise it. From healthcare and financial services to manufacturing and life sciences, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/artificial-intelligence\/use-cases\/\">business uses <\/a>are endless.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-metadata-sharpens-every-customer-interaction\">How metadata sharpens every customer interaction <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, AI can only achieve these amazing feats if it can <em>find<\/em> the right data, and that\u2019s where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/blog\/what-is-metadata\/\">metadata<\/a> comes in. 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