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Walmart just unveiled a new automated grocery warehouse. Here are the 3 questions the retail behemoth uses to guide all its AI projects.

called Alphabot that can fulfill online grocery orders roughly 10 times faster than store associates.

Those employees help support the over 100,000 different machine learning or AI-based projects the organization currently has in production. Among the applications that Walmart is currently rolling-out are"I do more work in the AI and [machine learning] space then I have ever done in my life," Groves said at the MLOps NYC conference two weeks ago.

And it's continuing to build-out that staff. Among the positions Walmart is hiring for is a data scientist to help develop. The company already uses the technology in grocery pickup and deliveries. Overall, Walmart has 67 data science openings, 43 software development vacancies, and 90 available data analytics jobs, according to its careers website.

"If the answer is 'no' to any of these three, we'll typically put a stop to the project immediately so that way we aren't spending money that we shouldn't spend," he said.One of the first questions that Walmart employees have to answer when deciding whether to pursue an AI-based project is: will someone pay for it? That can include the company itself, or a vendor that may purchase the application from Walmart.

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