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A.I. Bridging-Based Ranking Algorithms Could Change Online Recommendations: What Business Owners Ought to Know
Bridging-based algorithms are emerging as a possible alternative to heretofore dominant recommendation algorithms that will often serve up antagonistic, divisive content to viewers. The idea of bridging-based algorithms is that users will see more posts of positive...
California Governor Gavin Newsom Veto of an A.I. Safety Bill: What Business Owners Should Know
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill by the name of SB 1047, which many in the tech world thought to be a threat to the current pace of ongoing development of A.I. An important point in the bill describes requiring A.I. developers...
How NOT to Use A.I.: The U.S. Justice Department Alleges A.I.-Assisted Collusion in Real Estate
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog Post The nature of the alleged collusion involves the widely used real-estate software platform RealPage. According to the U.S.A. D.O.J., many real-estate companies that used RealPages' A.I. rent-price recommendation...
A.I. in Video Production: Insights from Hollywood’s Growing Adoption of This Technology
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Video's emerging dominance is increasingly making video content a highly valuable part of the majority of businesses' marketing and communications strategies. Despite this emerging importance of video content, many...
A.I. in KY: Kentucky Lawmakers Consider Artificial Intelligence Legislation
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Kentucky lawmakers recently expressed concerns about the negative influence that A.I. could have on elections. One of the main concerns is disinformation and misinformation made and spread by artificial intelligence. ...
A.I. for Auto Dealers: What to Know About Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog Auto dealers are going to have to get used to selling vehicles with more and more A.I. features. Though driverless cars are unlikely to be huge anytime soon, there are still plenty of A.I. systems that do not drive the...
The Current Challenges of Voice-Assistant A.I.
The Five Most Key Takeaways of This Blog Post All signs are pointing toward voice-assistant A.I. becoming a major technology in the coming years. Right now, major tech companies are ironing out some of the challenges standing in the way of making this type of A.I. a...
Google Search Has Reportedly Seen No Decrease in Traffic and Queries Despite Competing A.I. Search Engines
According to a report by Datos that SearchEngineLand covered, Google has managed to retain its standing in search even as A.I. search engines continue to grow in popularity. A factor that may affect this is the recent antitrust ruling, which could ultimately lead to...
RetA.I.l: Artificial Intelligence Can Help Brick-and-Mortar Businesses Identify Shoplifting Incidents
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog According to a CBS report, a company named Veesion is enabling store owners to quickly identify shoplifters in the store. Veesion sends store owners a real-time notification that looks pretty close to a Snapchat D.M. with...
DreamFlare AI Shows How Far Video-Generating A.I. Is Advancing
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog Post DreamFlare AI is boldly venturing into uncharted territory: a streaming service that offers A.I.-generated content. Did this company jump the gun here? Meaning, is the A.I. tech just not on a level to deliver...
The Impact of the Google Antitrust Ruling on Search
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog A federal judge has ruled that Google is a "monopolist" in online search. Many analysts consider this ruling to be the most significant for the tech world since Microsoft's anticompetitive wrist-slap in the 1990's. The...
A.I. in KY: Kentucky’s Public Defenders Are Relying on JusticeText, an A.I. Made for Public Advocacy
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Kentucky public defenders are using A.I. to accelerate their case work. Not just any A.I., however: those attorneys use JusticeText, A.I. that is exclusive to public defenders. The idea here is that the A.I. can help...
What to Know About Meta’s Open-Source A.I. Said to Surpass ChatGPT
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog Meta recently released Llama 3.1, an open-source A.I. large language model (LLM). An LLM is a generative A.I. model that has a huge amount of data in its training-data set. So, the "large" part refers to the data set, in...
The EU’s A.I. Act Has Become Law: The Implications for Business Owners (Especially American)
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog The European Union (E.U.) has been drafting the A.I. Act for years now. This tracks because ChatGPT, which prompted (pun not originally intended, but nonetheless endorsed by this writer) global awareness of A.I. and how far...
How Would Restricting Open-Source A.I. Affect Business Owners?
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog Open-source A.I. development has been a hot-button topic in the A.I. world for some time now. It refers to making the "source code" for certain A.I. projects openly available. That open availability translates to allowing...
A.I. in the Olympics Has Lessons for Business Owners, Especially Those in the Sports Industry
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog This year, there were multiple notable uses of A.I. in the Olympics. Many news organizations and businesses are drawing attention to this. Heck, even the Olympics (i.e., the organization responsible for putting on the event,...
Google Ends Its Plan to End Third-Party Cookies
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Digital marketers, sigh your sighs of relief: Google is indeed reneging on its years-long promise to nix third-party cookies. This should not be a terribly huge shock to the rest of the world, given the enormous...
Using A.I. to Find Resources for Business Owners
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog The ability of A.I. to find resources for extraction, potentially lucrative locations, is surprisingly sophisticated. Real-life example: A.I. recently identified a deposit in Zambia with quite literally millions of tons of...
Unpacking the Announcement of SearchGPT: What Business Owners Need to Know
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog There had been plenty of indications that OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, had been working on a search engine. But that indication is now a confirmation thanks to a recent announcement by OpenAI introducing SearchGPT. The...
What to Know About Recent and Upcoming Projects from OpenAI
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog OpenAI has been releasing and teasing a lot of products recently, some of them more likely to turn out successful than others. We go into them in this blog. For one, the secretive somewhat-under-wraps project with code name...
Google Vids, the Gen A.I. Feature Coming to Gemini: What Business Owners Need to Know
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Google Vids is the tech giant's coming-soon (as of this blog's writing) gen-A.I. video-creator. It has a specific B2B slant to it, as the Google Workspace page for Google Vids says that it is meant to create videos "for...
Amazon Rolls Out Its A.I. Shopping Assistant Rufus to All Users. Here’s What Business Owners Should Know.
The Five Most Key Takeaway from This Article Just in time for Prime Day, Amazon chose to release its A.I. shopping assistant Rufus. You need the Amazon app to have a conversation with Rufus. Rufus, which--fun fact!--gets its name from a somewhat mythical dog that...
IBM Watson vs. ChatGPT: Why So Many Business Owners Still Prefer IBM Watson.
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog OpenAI's ChatGPT may be the most popular chatbot in the world, but for reasons that may not be relevant to business owners in the way IBM Watson is. The wide range of tasks you can set to ChatGPT is impressive, sure. Who does...
IBM Watson vs. ChatGPT vs. Gemini: How Will Each Affect Search Engines?
Early into the widespread availability of generative A.I. chatbots, many people were already pointing out how this technology will integrate with search engines. It may be hard to imagine, let alone predict, exactly how search will alter our online search...
IBM Watson vs. ChatGPT: Which One Is Worth the Price?
The Five Most Key Takeaways of This Blogs ChatGPT has several subscription plans that offer access to things like image-generating A.I. along with customizable chatbots. The most expensive monthly subscription is Enterprise, which does not have a one-size-fits all...
IBM’s Watsonx.ai VS. ChatGPT: The Biggest A.I. Rival in 2024?
Google’s Gemini, Anthropic's Claude, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup X.AI’s Grok, have all seen plenty of hype as potential rivals to OpenAI's ChatGPT, which of all the gen A.I. chatbots in the market is the one most likely to have household-name...
A.I. in the Food Industry: How a Seafood Company Is Using Automation to Optimize Resources
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog A soft-shell crab company is using A.I. in combination with UV light to identify when a crab is between shells. (Between-shell crabs are apparently quite the sought-after item in the world of seafood.) The use of A.I. in the...
ChatGPT vs. IBM Watson: Which Is Your (And Your Customers’) Data Safer with in 2024?
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog A summer 2024 revelation that a hacker got access to OpenAI's ChatGPT internal messaging in early 2023, raising relevant questions about how secure OpenAI's A.I. technologies really are. Given the secrecy surrounding this...
IBM Watson vs. ChatGPT: A Deeper Look at Their Differences in 2024
When judging a contest of IBM Watson vs. ChatGPT, it is important to realize that not all chatbots are built the same. ChatGPT is serviceable at offering content for a broad range of topics and forms. But IBM Watson is great for narrower use cases, which well...
A.I. in Healthcare: Will “Mental-health Bots” Be a Success?
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog Mental-health bots, which are A.I. chatbots that can have therapeutic conversations with people, have been getting some high-profile exposure this year. Part of the appeal here is that using a chatbot may be more affordable...
Snickers Blazes a Trail for Business Owners Looking to Use Gen A.I. in Interactive Marketing
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Snickers is leveraging gen A.I. in a campaign that is an innovation on the existing, classic "celebrity endorsement" marketing technique. But further analysis shows that this is also a form of interactive marketing as...
For Businesses and Other Organizations, What Makes a Successful Chatbot?
The Five Most Key Takeaways of This Blog A chatbot that was meant to "transform" and "democratize" education ended up flopping. Many public schools implemented Ed, the chatbot, with the hope that it could lead to higher grades and engagement across the board. The...
A.I. in KY: University of Louisville Details A.I. Educational Offerings
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Article The University of Louisville (U of L) College of Business has detailed a number of offerings for students to learn more about A.I. Gen A.I. is a big focus here, with some classes by design meant to introduce students to...
Leading Tech Companies Are Changing Their Terms and Conditions for A.I. Data Collection. What Impact Will This Have on Business Owners?
The Five Most Key Takeaways of This Blog Most major tech companies are updating the terms and conditions for services and products (one example being Adobe's creative suite) regarding A.I data collection. These changes are meant to reflect the companies' strategy to...
A.I. in Property Management: Uses for Landlords and Multifamily Properties
The Five Most Key Takeaways of This Blog Landlords are finding more uses for A.I. now that generative A.I. in property management has become widely popular. In particular, property management companies are integrating more chatbots into the operations. There are...
Privacy and Security on Next-gen A.I. Devices: What Business Owners Need to Know About
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Article A new wave of A.I.-enhanced devices like laptops and smartphones will be rolling out in the coming years. The fact is, it is doubtful that tech companies will offer versions of these devices without the A.I. upgrades. As...
Medical A.I.: Assessing Patient Risk
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Blog A University of California San Diego (UCSD) research team comprised of doctors and scientists will be developing a medical A.I. model for assessing patient risk. This specific model will focus on assessing a patient's risk...
TikTok’s A.I. Avatars Ads: What Brands Need to Know
The Five Most Key Takeaways from This Article TikTok recently announced TikTok Symphony, a creative suite of A.I. tools. One of the standout features is Symphony Digital Avatars, which allows for brands to create content using generative A.I. avatars of real people. ...
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,...