ChatGPT’s “Instant Checkout” and Your Business

ChatGPT's Instant Checkout

ChatGPT is making it easy for users to purchase goods right inside ChatGPT. The recently released Instant Checkout feature connects to a variety of merchants. Business owners interested in trying this feature can sign up here. The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post The Significance for Business Owners Businesses connected to this feature have […]

Target’s A.I. “Gift Finder”: Lessons for Businesses’ Chatbots

Target's A.I. "Gift Finder

Target’s A.I. chatbot has a particular angle to it: it helps shoppers find gifts by describing the gift recipient. Target Gift Finder represents a trend that has been growing in recent years, which is incorporating conversational A.I. into the online-shopping experience. Business owners looking to implement conversational A.I. into customer-facing operations should take note of […]

Google’s A.I. Calls Businesses for Customers

Google's A.I. Calls Businesses for Customers

 Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Google unveiled an agentic calling feature that lets customers use A.I. to call local businesses for them. Google began the rollout for searches for toys, health and beauty products, and electronics in the U.S.A..  The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post The Significance for Business Owners […]

ChatGPT’s “Company Knowledge” Update for Businesses

ChatGPT's "Company Knowledge

A recent ChatGPT update for Business, Enterprise, and Education users enables direct connection to GitHub, Google Drive, Sharepoint, Slack, and other tools. This lets ChatGPT search through these sources to find company information for you, functioning like a personalized search engine for your company.  The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post The Significance for […]

The Trouble with Vibe Coding in Business

entrepreneurship

Talk of future billionaire “solopreneurs” may be more hallucination than premonition, but it points to a real trend in entrepreneurship and the way of doing business with A.I. That is, outsourcing skilled work to A.I. The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post An example of a skilled worker is a coder, who many A.I. […]

A.I. for Conversational G,P.S. Will Help Businesses

A.I. for Conversational GPS

 Talking to Google Maps is an example one of the A.I. innovations that could become increasingly popular in the coming years. That is, using A.I. as a backseat driver offering on-demand navigational guidance that goes beyond the usual heuristical route-mapping.  The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Business owners can benefit here as the […]

A.I. Sycophancy: What Business Owner Should Know

A.I. Sycophancy

 Many experts agree that A.I. has a problem with sycophancy, which ChatGPT creator OpenAI describes as an A.I. being “overly flattering or agreeable”. For business owners, the sycophancy effect has some problems.  The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Sycophancy in A.I. can have wide-ranging consequences for users. In the context of business owners, […]

Google’s “Ask for Me” A.I. Calls Businesses for You

A.I. Calls Businesses for You

Google’s Search Labs has an A.I. feature worth knowing about, that being “Ask for Me”. As of this writing, this is one of those experimental-phase A.I. products made available to a select group of people who will test it for Google. Its rollout has been slow, starting with nail salons and auto shops.  The Five […]

Apple Intelligence: Can Businesses Use This A.I.?

Apple Intelligence

Apple Intelligence, which because of delays and underperformance relative to competitors has had a troubled reputation in the tech world, has the advantage of being on highly popular computers, phones, and tablets. For business owners, what opportunities does this present? The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Apple Intelligence is widely recognized inside and […]

“Generated by a Human” Marks for Businesses’ Content: Could It Help?

Human-Reviewed Certifications

A growing concern among content creators in general is how to make sure their content is recognized as human-generated amid a sea of A.I. slop on social-media feeds and search engines. For business owners, this could affect performance in realms like S.E.O., where content flagged as potentially A.I.-generated could potentially perform worse.  The Five Most-Key […]