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Store Companion, Target’s New In-store Chatbot, Points to the Future of RetA.I.l
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog Store Companion is the name of Target's in-store chatbot assistant. This chatbot will assist employees and customers alike. It appears as an app on the employees' hand-held devices. The rollout begins with about 400 stores,...
Generative A.I. Representing Real People Point to the Future of A.I.-Powered Endorsements
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog Innovations in generative A.I. have made it easier to create chatbots in the guise of a real person. The latest example of this is Rebind Publishing, which offers the first "A.I. reading experience". This company pays...
A.I. in the Pharmaceutical Industry
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog A.I in the pharmaceutical industry is boosting development of drugs. Given how cost- and time-intensive developing a drug can be, the hope is that A.I. can speed up certain parts of the R & D phase. Certain parts of the...
What To Learn from the Census Data on A.I. Use by Businesses
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog The U.S. Census has released an Artificial Intelligence Supplement to its Business Trends and Outlook Survey. According to this new Census data on A.I., only 5% of businesses reported that they used A.I. for their business...
A Look at Microsoft Copilot’s Customizable A.I. Features
The Five Most Key Takeaways of This Blog Microsoft Copilot has been steadily integrating newer A.I. features for some time now. Copilot is Microsoft's generative A.I. chatbot that the company seeks to make present in a wide variety of its software suites, such as the...
What to Know About, and How to Create, Custom GPTs
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog The option to create Custom GPTs is available to subscribers of ChatGPT Plus, the premium paid tier of the free publicly available chatbot. You actually do not need to be a seasoned programmer to create one of these custom...
Applications for AI in Customer Service
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog The recent boom in conversational computing platforms related to developments in generative A.I. has brought customer service solutions to a new level. The traditional tool for AI in customer service is the chatbot. These...
Google Unveils Veo as Strengths and Weaknesses of Video-generating A.I. Become Clearer
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog Google has officially unveiled its video-generating A.I., Veo. This can generate 1080p videos over a minute long. In addition to generating video content from scratch, it also has demonstrable strengths in areas like...
Stanford’s Research on AI Tools in Law: What Lawyers Should Know
The Five Key Takeaways from This Blog Researchers at Stanford have found that on average, 1 in 6 queries by supposedly “hallucination-free” legal-assistance AI tools yielded hallucinatory language. Some A.I. companies are claiming to offer lawyer-assistant A.I. that...
Google Is Rolling Back A.I. Overviews–for Now. Here’s What Business Owners Need to Know.
A.I. Overviews The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog Google is rolling back the A.I. Overviews feature that it recently rolled out. This feature offered A.I.-generated responses that would appear at the top of a Google search. These responses would...
OpenAI Faces Legal Troubles from Scarlett Johansson Soundalike A.I. Voice Assistant: What Business Owners Can Learn from This
The Five Key Takeaways of This Blog Post OpenAI is facing legal troubles after unveiling an A.I. voice assistant that sounds eerily like Scarlett Johansson. The suer is none other than Scarlett Johansson herself (and her legal representation, of course). This follows...
Artificial General Intelligence, or Something Like It, Is On the Way–Is Your Business Ready?
The Five Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Artificial general intelligence (or, A.G.I.) refers to artificial intelligence (A.I.) that can equal or do better than a human intelligence in many cognitive tasks. The mere possibility of A.G.I. is highly controversial...
NASA and IBM’s Weather-Predicting A.I. Could Have Many Uses for Businesses
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog Prithvi-weather-climate is a weather-predicting A.I. platform that creates weather tracking and forecasts. IBM and NASA collaborated to create Prithvi-weather-climate. This A.I. project will be openly available thanks...
A.I. in SEO: What to Know from the Leaks about the Google Search Engine Ranking Algorithm
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog Post An internal source at Google leaked a ton of information about how Google's automated search engine ranking algorithms work. Among the findings is that user clicks are more or less seen as votes about what content is...
California’s Proposed Anti-discrimination Laws in A.I. Could Become The Standard
The Five Key Takeaways from this Article The California Civil Rights Council has proposed a series of amendments to the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) that seeks to mitigate and prevent discrimination in A.I. These amendments come as the uses for A.I. in...
How Are Property Managers Using A.I.?
The Five Key Takeaways from This Article Property managers are increasingly finding more and more interesting applications for A.I. across their properties. Predictive analytics can identify when certain machines (e.g., A.C. units) may need maintenance, repair, or...
Artificial Intelligence in Real Estate
Artificial Intelligence in Real Estate: The Five Key Takeaways A.I. can analyze extensive housing market data, including details about potential sellers to inform buyer bids. A great use for A.I. is predicting when homeowners might sell, enabling proactive buyer...
Google’s CEO Offers Comments on How A.I. Will Impact Search
When a company like Google is pouring billions of dollars into revolutionizing search with A.I., you can expect the CEO to offer an optimistic view about the impact of A.I. on how search engines operate. He did just that in a wide-ranging interview on A.I. with The...
Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Accounting
Accounting is, famously or perhaps infamously, the realm of number-crunching and virtual boatloads of data. As a discipline and pursuit, it tends to attract the more math-oriented crowd within a business school's program. In addition to that, it also just attracts...
A.I. in KY: Northern Kentucky University Announces Minor in Artificial Intelligence
The presence of artificial intelligence in Kentucky has been slowly growing for quite some time now. And it looks like 2024 is going to be a big year for this. For one, early this year the city of Lexington hosted the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce event Kentucky A.I....
What to Know About Answer from Brave, One of the Internet’s Largest A.I. Search Engines
In case you are unaware, one of the biggest changes to an extant technology that many analysts are expecting A.I. to bring about is the comprehensive upgrading of the search engine. From Google's Search Generative Experience to Microsoft's “the new Bing”, there are a...
Meet Meta AI, the Latest A.I. Assistant
Meta has been one of the biggest names in the A.I. race, although something of a curiosity alongside the more competitive big names like Microsoft and Google. That is not to say that Meta is out of the race, entirely. Far from it. In fact, Meta has been working hard...
The SEO Impact of the Google-Reddit Content Licensing Deal
A recent ranking happening that has been gaining a lot of attention among SEO practitioners is the apparent lightning-fast ranking of a Reddit post within mere minutes of its posting. For one, this shows something quite important to those in the world of SEO: posting...
Artificial Intelligence and Digital Twins: What to Know
Have you ever heard of the concept of "digital twins"? Like many tech-related concepts, it is actually not as complex as it may at first appear. What Is a Digital Twin? A digital twin is really just a computer model of a real-life thing. That "thing" is an object...
Apple’s “Ask” A.I. Platform: What We Know So Far
Sometimes, in business, keeping a low profile is not a sign of being behind in the race and needing to catch up. In fact, there can be virtues in keeping your head down and focused on your work while your competitors loudly make a whole lot of noise about how their...
Inside the Recent Issues with Amazon’s A.I. Ad-Placement
Maybe it slipped under your radar, or maybe it was front-page news on your feed, but either way you should have an understanding of the recent problems that a small number of sellers on Amazon have faced due to the company's automated ad-placer. If you sell products...
A.I. Video Tools Businesses Should Be Aware of in 2024
The Five Biggest Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Video A.I. tools are becoming more and more common in the marketplace. OpenAI's Sora is a high-profile example of artificial intelligence generating videos, though it is still in the "announcement" phase as of this...
Anthropic Claims Its Chatbot Claude Is the Best in the Market
The Five Biggest Key Takeaways from This Article Anthropic, an AI safety research company, was founded by former OpenAI employees. Anthropic's flagship A.I. platform is the chatbot Claude. The latest version of Claude is Claude 3, which is supposedly stronger in...
Artificial Intelligence in the Cosmetics Industry
We can expect that A.I. will radically change just about every industry imaginable. From manufacturing to the restaurant industry to finance and beyond, there is nary a corner of commerce that will not feel the reverberations of this most impactful technological...
What Is the “Alignment Problem” in A.I.? What Business Owners Need to Know
Anyone who has ever had a dog understands the frustration of trying to get the animal to do even the simplest task. You hold out the dry crumble-prone bone-shaped treat, entreating the furry four-legged friend to "sit, siiiiiiiiittttttt, c'mon just sit [Pet Name] do...
A.I. in Healthcare: How Nurses Can Get Assistance from A.I.
Being a nurse can be quite a difficult job on its own. This is especially true on busy days, when it can be a balancing act going from patient to patient with little to no downtime in between. Even during more slow shifts, there are often lives on the line that...
What Does A.G.I. Mean for Business Owners?
Artificial general intelligence (A.G.I.) has been a subject of much speculation and controversy for some time now. The basic idea behind the concept is that A.I. can indeed be developed to a point where it basically reaches the full potential of a human intelligence,...
A.I. Regulations’ Impact on Business Owners in 2024
The Five Big Key Takeaways from This Blog The U.S. Justice Department is increasing its focus on A.I and A.I. Regulations. Computer scientist and lawyer Jonathan Mayer will be the U.S.A.'s first Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, advising top leadership in the...
How ChatGPT’s Improved Memory Will Benefit Business Owners
The Five Key Takeaways from This Article OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT's memory so that you can train it for long-term purposes, such as writing a themed weekly blog. The chatbot's "recall" goes between different conversations, so you can have multiple conversation...
A.I. Is Powering Google’s Multimodal Search Experience
The Five Big Key Takeaways in This Article Google is advancing in A.I., which is allowing it to upgrade the Google search experience. One of the big projects is to create a "multimodal" search experience that goes beyond using text and/or speech in search. Being able...
Google Circle to Search Is A.I. in Action in the Search Experience
The Five Big Key Takeaways from this Article Google is experimenting with different ways to search for information, entertainment, or "infotainment" online beyond the usual text-typing or voice-searching. One of the biggest new features is Circle to Search, where...
OpenAI Is Releasing Sora, Its Video Generative A.I. Platform
The Five Key Takeaways from This Blog OpenAI, creator of DALL-E and ChatGPT, has revealed that its video-generating platform is called Sora. As of this writing, this platform will only be available to a select number of users for a trial phase before it becomes more...
What You Need to Know About Generative A.I. and Data Privacy in 2024
As business owners become increasingly acclimated to the new year and its developments, there is one thing that they are going to square with: progress in generative A.I. Despite looming regulations specifically centered on generative A.I., things are still going...
What to Know About the GPT Store and Its Custom Chatbots
For quite some time now, anyone with enough software development know-how could easily use OpenAI's GPT-4 as a template for building apps. Good idea, right? OpenAI certainly took notice of this, as it decided to extend the offer of custom-GPTs to non-developers. ...
Is Apple Going to Release a ChatGPT Competitor in 2024?
Microsoft, Google, Meta, IBM, Amazon, and countless other major tech giants have been straining in the neck-and-neck A.I. race to seem dominant. But one company, perhaps the biggest name of all, is conspicuously absent from the public track meet. Of course, we could...
A.I. Will Have Many Impacts on Cybersecurity in 2024
One of the most important fields for A.I. innovation is cybersecurity. As the number of cybersecurity threats continues to grow day after day, the need for top-notch cybersecurity solutions is becoming essential. A.I. will help combat the rise of risks associated...
Google Gives Bard an Upgrade, Starting by Integrating Gemini Ultra
Google's place in the A.I. race has always been kind of uncertain. For one, it sort of publicly showed its hand in declaring its hand in late 2022 following the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT (which rival Microsoft made enough majority-investor contributions to that it...
The Copyright Question Will Define the Development and Use of A.I. in 2024
After the Thanksgiving he's-in, he's-out debacle over at OpenAI, it would make sense why the A.I. world would have hoped for a nice, relaxing close to 2023. There was a certain promise of peace to be found in the fact that U.S. legislators were going to enter their...
A.I. in SEO: Inside Google Performance Max and Search Generative Experience
Susie Vowinkel, managing director at Google Travel, recently went into detail in a Search Engine Land article about two of its most significant A.I.-driven marketing tools: Performance Max (PMax) and Search Generative Experience (SGE). These are A.I. tools developed...
Machine Learning in Employee Training
Employee training is one of the most common rituals known to the individual in this day and age. Workers from all backgrounds universally experience this ritual, making it one of the most commonly shared experiences. It is in employee training where the individual...
Here Is How The E.U.’s Latest A.I. Regulations Will Affect Business Owners in 2024
The A.I. Act will bring with it a host of regulations on artificial intelligence. The European Union (E.U.) drafted this and expects it to become effective within 12 to 24 months after passing. That alone is considerable, as the A.I. industry has been developing at...
Meta and IBM Join Forces for A.I. Innovation Project
When big game-changing technologies emerge, alliances form for the sake of gaining dominance in the market. We are seeing that across many industries. For instance, who would have thought that YouTube now inks heavy deals with the NFL for broadcasting rights of games...
What Business Owners Need to Know About Grok, X’s New A.I. Chatbot
As droves of advertisers flock from X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, the internal management is looking for any and every way to capitalize on the platform. This involves everything from offering paid "premium" subscription plans that offer...
Machine Learning for Businesses Involved in the Internet of Things (IoT)
Data is what makes the world go round. In the digital world, at least. But it is worth mentioning that the digital world is an entity that has a sizable influence on the "real", physical world. An outsize influence, some may say. Be that as it may, there is no...
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Network Solutions
A hallmark feature of our increasingly technological age is that certain conveniences become needs. These needs are true needs for many in their current life situations. Wi-Fi, like the smartphones that not even two decades ago were not in the public consciousness,...
A.I. Is Making Big Strides in 2024 Product Design
Northwestern University researchers have used an A.I. program to build a robot. The Northwestern University professor spearheading this research tells us that movement is fundamental to intelligence. He points to things like trees, which we all know do not move, not...
The Combination of AI Copyright Laws and AI Watermarks Will Have an Impact on Business Owners in 2024
The concept of a copyright is pretty straightforward: It grants certain parties the right to publish and, importantly, profit from certain materials. Baked into this idea is the exclusion of others able to do so. But with extant and expected regulations on...
2024 AI Predictions: AI Will Transform Product Placement
American consumers, and just consumers worldwide, have long been in the know about the ubiquitousness of product placement. Many of us with well-trained media-savvy eyes still fail to catch the subtler instances of product placement. Whether it's on a TikTok filmed...
Chatbots and Branding: How A.I. Interactions Help Customer Relations
See the little chat box on the bottom right-hand corner of our website? You probably see these on most websites. And on most websites, that box is commandeered by a chatbot. Although a lot of the time that chatbot has the guise of a human. For this article’s...
How Will the Internal Troubles at OpenAI Affect Businesses That Use ChatGPT?
A lot of people in the world of A.I. just had their Thanksgiving 2k23 week flat-out ruined because of certain developments in OpenAI. Specifically, the ouster of one Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. And shortly thereafter, the board reinstated him as CEO. As of this...
Which Will Be the Biggest AI Trends in 2024?
It’s not terribly insightful to note that when a market starts getting hot, businesses in that industry start popping up left and right. Nevertheless, it holds true. This is pretty much exactly what is happening in AI. The result is that many AI trends pop up, and...
The Strengths and Limits of AI-Powered SEO Platforms for Business Owners
Ever since the dawn of SEO, there have been get-ranked-quick solutions that have been hawked to business owners left and right. Most of the time, these “guaranteed rankings” are sort of SEO snake oil. Maybe you will get ranks quick, but it will not last. After a...
Meta Has Implemented New AI Transparency Rules That Will Have an Impact Across Many Industries
Political Ads Are the Main Focus, but Other Industries Must Follow the Rules Picture this: You are scrolling through Meta (or Facebook, if you still want to call it that…) and see a political ad. A gravelly voice over accuses a certain Opposing Candidate of signing a...
Business Owners Can Now Customize ChatGPT for Their Specific Needs
Customizable AI is one of the crucial technologies that will benefit business owners in the coming years. The customizable aspect lies in the ability to tailor an AI tool to a specific company’s unique operations. Historically, this has involved fairly...
AI Is Helping Businesses Manage Their Brand Image Online. Will This Practice Last?
Business owners are well aware that creating and maintaining a brand image is quite challenging thanks to the Internet. It is a place where people are constantly exposed to content that is designed to make a big impression, and big impressions about the quality of a...
AI in SEO: Inside Google’s 2023 Spam Update
Google’s spam filter algorithm is one of those examples of artificial intelligence that many people are perhaps familiar with, yet do not realize is actually an example of artificial intelligence. It’s like when your navigation app updates in real-time to bad weather...
How We Are Using Canva’s Image-Generating AI Tools in 2023 and 2024
Within the past year, professional content creators have been able to use a wide number of automated tools that have been boosting productivity. For many workers, these tools may not even be used in their daily lives. But for those who do, it truly does feel as if...
How Grocery Stores of All Sizes Are Using AI to Improve the Shopping Experience
Are you lost in the grocery store? No worries, A.I. can help you find what you are looking for. Artificial intelligence has many grocery chains around the world bringing their operations to a new level of technological sophistication. One example of this is...
Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the Art of Customer Engagement
Customer engagement in the 21st century is rapidly evolving, and A.I. is greasing the wheels of change more than anything else. What Is Customer Engagement? When we say “customer engagement”, we are not simply referring to getting your business’ name in front of a...
Spotify’s AI DJ Named “DJ” Shows Business Owners the Power of AI in Product Recommendations
Spotify’s new feature, DJ, is yet another example of how A.I. is growing in sophistication and reach. “DJ” has been available since February of this year, which was when the recent A.I. frenzy really started to pick up. In early August, Spotify announced that DJ has...
ChatGPT Can Now Browse the Internet For You: What This Means for Business Owners in 2023 and 2024
Perhaps the biggest update to ChatGPT since its release in November of 2022 was recently announced: It can now browse the Internet for you. As many ChatGPT users know, the chatbot was previously only approved to use data from September 2021 and before. This major...
Preparing Your Business for AI Integration: What You Need to Know About Your Data in 2023 and 2024
Picture this: After months of hearing about how A.I. can transform your business, you find yourself willing to make the investment to integrate artificial intelligence into your business. Maybe it was the ads for watsonx on Monday Night Football, maybe it was the GO...
Voice-Command Generative AI Will Save Businesses Time and Energy in Content Creation
In case you heard, ChatGPT is getting yet another major upgrade: Voice command capabilities. You will now be able to have conversations with ChatGPT that are reminiscent of Siri and Alexa interactions. This announcement from OpenAI comes on the heels of yet another...
Pennsylvania’s State Government Has Announced It Will Integrate AI into Its Operations. Here’s the Lesson Business Owners Can Get from This.
Politicians in the United States differ widely on the issue of artificial intelligence, but the state of Pennsylvania seems to be optimistic about the technology. After all, Pennsylvania’s governor Josh Shapiro recently announced that the state government will be...
Business Owners Should Take Advantage of ChatGPT’s New Image-Generating Capability, DALL-E, in 2023
In November of 2022, the public was blown away by the debut of ChatGPT, which generated text on command. Now, close to a year later, chatbots are part of the daily lives of people around the world. Automated text generation in the workplace has become as commonplace...