Is analytics based on Big Data and artificial intelligence already capable of predicting what we will think about tomorrow, that we need something, that we should perhaps buy something we think we need?
Can an AI-equipped internet robot using the results of research carried out by Big Data advanced socio-economic analytics systems and employed in the call centre department of a company or institution already forecast, in real time, the consumption and purchase needs of a specific internet user on the basis of a conversation with a potential customer and, on this basis, offer internet users the purchase of an offer of products or services that they themselves would probably think they need in a moment?
On the basis of analytics of a bank customer's purchases of products and services, analytics of online payments and settlements and bank card payments, will banks refine their models of their customers' purchase preferences for the use of specific banking products and financial services? for example, will the purchase of a certain type of product or service result in an offer of, for example, a specific insurance or bank loan to a specific customer of the bank?
Will this be an important part of the automation of the processes carried out within the computerised systems concerning customer relations etc. in the context of the development of banking in the years to come?
For years, in databases, data warehouses and Big Data platforms, Internet technology companies have been collecting information on citizens, Internet users, customers using their online information services.
Continuous technological progress increases the possibilities of both obtaining, collecting and processing data on citizens in their role as potential customers, consumers of Internet offers and other media, Internet information services, offers of various types of products and services, advertising campaigns that also influence the general social awareness of citizens and the choices people make concerning various aspects of their lives. The new Industry 4.0 technologies currently being developed, including Big Data Analytics, cloud computing, Internet of Things, Blockchain, cyber security, digital twins, augmented reality, virtual reality and also machine learning, deep learning, neural networks and artificial intelligence will determine the rapid technological progress and development of applications of these technologies in the field of online marketing in the years to come as well. The robots being developed, which collect information on specific content from various websites and webpages, are able to pinpoint information written by internet users on their social media profiles. In this way, it is possible to obtain a large amount of information describing a specific Internet user and, on this basis, it is possible to build up a highly accurate characterisation of a specific Internet user and to create multi-faceted characteristics of customer segments for specific product and service offers. In this way, digital avatars of individual Internet users are built in the Big Data databases of Internet technology companies and/or large e-commerce platforms operating on the Internet, social media portals. The descriptive characteristics of such avatars are so detailed and contain so much information about Internet users that most of the people concerned do not even know how much information specific Internet-based technology companies, e-commerce platforms, social media portals, etc. have about them.
Geolocalisation added to 5G high-speed broadband and information technology and Industry 4.0 has, on the one hand, made it possible to develop analytics for identifying Internet users' shopping preferences, topics of interest, etc., depending on where, specifically geographically, they are at any given time with the smartphone on which they are using certain online information services. On the other hand, the combination of the aforementioned technologies in the various applications developed in the applications installed on the smartphone has made it possible, on the one hand, to increase the scale of data collection on Internet users, and, on the other hand, also to increase the efficiency of the processing of this data and its use in the marketing activities of companies and institutions and the implementation of these operations increasingly in real time in the cloud computing, the presentation of the results of the data processing operations carried out on Internet of Things devices, etc.
It is becoming increasingly common for us to experience situations in which, while walking with a smartphone past some physical shop, bank, company or institution offering certain services, we receive an SMS, banner or message on the Internet portal we have just used on our smartphone informing us of a new promotional offer of products or services of that particular shop, company, institution we have passed by.
In view of the above, I would like to address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
Is analytics based on Big Data and artificial intelligence, conducted in the field of market research, market analysis, the creation of characteristics of target customer segments, already able to forecast what we will think about tomorrow, that we need something, that we might need to buy something that we consider necessary?
Is analytics based on Big Data and artificial intelligence already capable of predicting what we will think about tomorrow?
The text above is my own, written by me on the basis of my research.
In writing this text, I did not use other sources or automatic text generation systems such as ChatGPT.
Copyright by Dariusz Prokopowicz
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