Your Very Own AI-Powered Personal Shopper--Chia-Lin Simmons—LookyLoo, Lucy AI
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Online clothing purchases today are premised on the idea that all you need to know is your size or measurements in order to guarantee a good fit, and while men can often get away with this, the reality is that women's clothing purchases are much more complex. The fact that more than 30-50% of all online apparel purchases are returned is a testament to this, but even those who have the luxury of shopping in person struggle with getting the feedback they can rely upon and feeling confident with their purchases. More than 71% of millennial women send selfies to their friends when trying on clothes, but the chances that they'll get a response from every friend while they're still in the store are low.
Now there's a solution: LookyLoo, an AI-powered social commerce platform that allows users to post photos and receive direct feedback on fashion choices from a cloud of other consumers. Meanwhile, the AI (better known as "Lucy") learns based on how you and others to vote, leading to stronger, personalized, and specific recommendations. What looks good in fashion is contextual to location and age group, and Lucy takes this into account for every user.
"Fashion is art, and for a lot of people it's an opportunity to be something beautiful," says Chia-Lin Simmons, founder of LookyLoo. The app is already enormously popular, and the team at LookyLoo is looking to the future. Where's that, you might ask? Cosmetics.
Tune in for all the details and find LookyLoo on Twitter and Instagram.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:17.0 | Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:21.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the future tech podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | My guest is Shylin Simmons. |
| 0:32.0 | She's the founder of Licki Lou or Lucy A. |
| 0:36.2 | It's actually Licki Lou, it's a AI-powered social |
| 0:39.9 | commerce platform and I won't give any more details than that because I'd rather |
| 0:44.0 | heard describe it to you but Shilin thank you for coming. Thank you for inviting me |
| 0:48.0 | Rich. Yeah tell me about Lookie Lou I like the name. Tell me what it's about. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm glad to like the name. |
| 0:56.0 | Well, Rich, I don't know what the audience of the podcast are made up of, but if it's a guy, I'm sure a lot of you guys have heard sort of that dreaded question from the females in your life, which is that dreaded, so how does this make me look and so it is literally a |
| 1:16.5 | conundrum that many men run into because there's really only one good |
| 1:20.9 | answer as my husband with Tommy me and the reality is that |
| 1:24.6 | that's a predictable answer right and so for a lot of women getting validation |
| 1:30.2 | on the clothing that they're purchasing is crucial because for everything else in the environment |
| 1:35.3 | that we're living in today we're really used to what I call the Amazon justification of purchases, |
| 1:40.9 | right? |
| 1:41.9 | So we're all now conditioned to think about when we make a purchase, say for example, a binocular, right, that five stars from five people may not be as reliably good a purchase decision as maybe four stars from a |
| 1:55.8 | thousand people. But today clothing and apparel online purchases don't have that |
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