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Dec 11, 2024 51 min

Sidekick is an AI Shopify expert

from Practical AI Hosted by Daniel Whitenack and Chris Benson

Today, Chris explores Shopify Magic and other AI offerings with Mike Tamir, Distinguished ML Engineer and Head of Machine Learning, and Matt Colyer, Director of Product Management for Sidekick. They talk about how Shopify uses generative AI and LLMs to enhance their products, and they take a deeper dive into Sidekick, a first-of-its-kind, AI-enabled commerce assistant that understands a merchant’s business (products, orders, customers) and has been trained to know all about Shopify. Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Timescale – Purpose-built performance for AI Build RAG, search, and AI agents on the cloud and with PostgreSQL and purpose-built extensions for AI: pgvector, pgvectorscale, and pgai. You can try it for free for 30 days - but we’re confident you will not want to return it (we love ours). Once you experience AI-optimized sleep, you’ll wonder how you ever slept without it. Currently shipping to: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. Featuring: Mike Tamir – LinkedIn Matt Colyer – LinkedIn, X Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X Show Notes: Shopify Shopify’s Winter Edition ’25 Upcoming Events: Register for upcoming webinars here!

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  1. 0:00 Welcome to Practical AI
  2. 0:34 Sponsor: Fly
  3. 3:16 What is Shopify?
  4. 5:10 What sets Shopify apart?
  5. 6:08 Wide array of customers
  6. 8:00 The Ai turning point
  7. 9:11 Shopify's mission
  8. 10:33 Approaching different models
  9. 11:43 Strengths and weaknesses of different perspectives
  10. 14:51 Growing pains
  11. 17:21 Sponsor: Timescale
  12. 19:58 Find your way out of the forest
  13. 23:29 Other products
  14. 27:16 Plugging in the ecosystem
  15. 30:45 Sponsor: Eight Sleep
  16. 33:28 What is Magic?
  17. 34:09 Adding more AI capabilities?
  18. 40:10 Finding utility in other tools
  19. 44:16 Looking to the future
  20. 50:23 Thanks for joining us!
  21. 50:49 Outro

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