
Everyday AI At Work Blog Series
Last month Chevrolet, the iconic US auto brand, launched the Chevy Global Positivity System to reinforce its association with a positive, never-give-up attitude, as part of its newest global brand awareness campaign. What’s notable about this is that the campaign breaks new ground in marketing by leveraging artificial intelligence to support brand engagement.
Chevrolet is leveraging IBM Watson APIs including the Watson Personality Insights – a cognitive computing service that extracts and analyzes a spectrum of personality attributes from things people have written – to help users of the Global Positivity System evaluate how positive they are through their social media posts by generating an overall positivity score. The Chevrolet Global Positivity System also identifies people’s most positive and least positive posts, their most frequently used positive words and emojis, and highlights their top three personality traits, such as excitement and self-expression. Then, the site encourages users to Find New Roads that may appeal to their traits, such as touring a museum or taking on a new hobby.
This may at first seem a little far-fetched but the Chevrolet campaign is just one example of how AI can be leveraged to reinvent branding and marketing. And that make the new field of cognitive marketing a potential goldmine.
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