How UPS Leverages AI to Level Up Logistics

UPS delivers nearly 25 million packages and documents every day. While the process seems near-effortless, AI is hard at work behind the scenes to ensure the reliability consumers have come to expect. Today on The ConversAItion, Laura Patel, Principal Data Scientist within UPS’ Advanced Technology Group, walks us through how the scientific method can inform data science, the role of AI in a package lifecycle and why data will be essential for the success of logistics companies going forward—including building a more sustainable future.

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Host Jim Freeze, a high-energy tech enthusiast and CMO at conversational AI company Interactions, is on a quest to understand the impact of AI on business and society. AI materializes in business, academic and government innovations. It finishes our texts, analyzes complex medical data and if you ask, can recite the weather forecast or play your favorite song. Through dialogue and debate with AI executives and academics, Jim’s peeling back the layers on the ways the technology is changing our lives to understand how its impact can be as productive as possible. For more, visit interactions.com/podcast.