The PRQL: Exploring the Evolution of AI and ML in E-commerce Search Optimization with Jesse Clark of Marqo.ai

July 15, 2024

In this bonus episode, Eric and John preview their upcoming conversation with with Jesse Clark of Marqo.ai.

Notes:

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Transcription:

Eric Dodds 00:05
Welcome to The Data Stack Show pre cool. This is a short bonus episode where we preview the upcoming show. You’ll get to meet our guests and hear about the topics we’re going to cover. If they’re interesting to you, you can catch the full length show when it drops on Wednesday. Right Welcome back to The Data Stack Show a we are here with Jesse Clarke from Marqo.ai. Jessie, welcome to The Data Stack Show. We are super thrilled to talk with you today.

Jesse Clark 00:33
Yeah, great to be here. Thanks so much for having me.

Eric Dodds 00:35
All right. You have a really long interesting history which we’re going to dig into an amendment give us the abbreviated version. A pretty good version.

Jesse Clark 00:43
Yes. Started out physics PhD looking at very small things, stood about six years in academia then decided that this wasn’t for me moved into women’s fashion doing data science at Stitch Fix segwayed into Alexa at Amazon robotics and search and then found in Marco, which brings me here today. Awesome.

John Wessel 01:02
tons to discuss. Alright, yeah. Welcome on Jesse. So we talked a little bit before the show about the E commerce application for search someone the history of search, and why it’s so complicated and messy right now. So what are some topics you’re interested in cover?

Jesse Clark 01:18
Yeah, really excited to talk about machine learning and search vector search, some of the new capabilities that really unlocks and really forward looking as well, because I think that we’re gonna see a large evolution in the way that we searched. We’ve already seen some of that with things like chat GPT and these kinds of question answering methods. So, you know, forward looking, I think it’s really exciting.

John Wessel 01:37
Yeah. Awesome. All right. Shall we do that? Let’s do it. All right.

Eric Dodds 01:41
That’s a wrap for the prequel. The full length episode will drop Wednesday morning. Subscribe now so you don’t miss it.