Last week, while attending this year’s VOICES, BoF’s big annual gathering of industry thinkers and leaders, I had the opportunity to speak with people in different roles in fashion. Being that I’m a technology reporter, a lot of those conversations naturally turned to innovation.

As I chatted with people from brands, fashion intelligence, and education companies, one technology kept coming up, and it wasn’t VR, the metaverse, or NFTs. it was the AI.

Artificial intelligence is a decades-old concept, but in recent years advances in fields like machine learning and computer vision have allowed it to begin to have a real impact on businesses. Today, the most tech-savvy fashion brands use it for practical tasks like forecasting demand and setting…