AI Updates

News:

• Don’t buy stand-alone AI hardware

• Free ChatGPT users now enjoy these GPT-4o features: browsing, vision, data analysis, file uploads, and GPTs. https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1795900306490044479

• OpenAI shut down five accounts used by foreign governments to manipulate public opinion. https://openai.com/index/disrupting-deceptive-uses-of-AI-by-covert-influence-operations/

• Google claims it has improved AI Overviews after catching flak for its bizarre responses. https://blog.google/products/search/ai-overviews-update-may-2024/

• * Raising Money * Perplexity is in talks to raise $250M at a $3B valuation. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bessemer-in-talks-to-invest-in-ai-startup-perplexity-at-3-billion-valuation

• One ring to rule them all Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has trained his ‘Eye of Sauron’ on its artificial-intelligence strategy, which comes with risks https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/metas-plan-to-win-ai-race-give-its-tech-away-free-4bcc080a

• Apple’s upcoming Siri update will let you control your iPhone apps with just your voice. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-30/apple-ios-18-siri-ai-update-will-let-users-control-features-in-apps-with-voice?embedded-checkout=true

• More New Chips Nvidia announced new AI chips https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/02/nvidia-next-generation-ai-chips-rubin-blackwell.html

• Nvidia surpassed $3T in market cap https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/05/nvidia-briefly-passes-3-trillion-market-cap-on-back-of-ai-boom.html

• Even more chips AMD announced new AI chips; Nvidia’s 2026 chips will be called “Rubin”. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/03/amd-unveils-new-ai-chips-amid-rising-competition-with-nvidia-intel.html

• Microsoft built a weather forecasting AI named Aurora that can predict and help mitigate extreme weather events. https://x.com/MSFTResearch/status/1797662278394827029

• Microsoft Turns Off Default ‘Recall’ AI Feature Amid Privacy Backlash https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/microsoft-turns-off-default-recall-ai-feature-amid-privacy-backlash?rc=z8s4f9

• Shutterstock made $104M in revenue last year solely by licensing their images and videos to AI companies. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-04/shutterstock-s-ai-licensing-business-generated-104-million-last-year?embedded-checkout=true

• AI adoption in at least 1 business function has risen from 33% of companies to 65% in the last year. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai

• AI Use The proportion of Kruze Consulting clients using multiple AI models rather than just one jumped from 1% last summer to 15% in April. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-long-can-openais-first-mover-advantage-last

AI Will End Humanity

• 42% of CEOs say AI could destroy humanity in five to ten years https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/14/business/artificial-intelligence-ceos-warning/index.html

• Roman Yampolskiy, an AI safety scientist and director of the Cyber Security Laboratory at the University of Louisville. He believes it's pretty much guaranteed to happen. He places the odds of AI wiping out humanity at 99.999999%. https://futurism.com/the-byte/researcher-99-percent-chance-ai-destroy-humankind

• The Useless Class https://ideas.ted.com/the-rise-of-the-useless-class/

• Historian Yuval Noah Harari offers a bracing prediction: just as mass industrialization created the working class, the AI revolution will create a new unworking class…. in 2017

• How AI will reinvent Marketing (Andrew Chen)

  • First-Order vs. Second-Order Effects First-order effects are easy to foresee, such as the direct applications of AI in marketing:

    • Infinite variations of ad creatives and content.

    • Cost reductions in creating video, audio, and other content forms.

    • Embedded ads within AI-driven responses.

    • Streamlined creative processes using generative AI.

  However, these ideas are considered "boring" because they merely enhance existing practices without fundamentally altering the landscape.

• Second-Order Effects: AI-Native Marketing Innovations To explore more profound implications, consider the concept of "infinite labor" and "infinite content":

  • Infinite Labor: AI transforms capital into various types of labor, allowing for unprecedented scalability in tasks like design and project management.

  • Infinite Content: The ability to create content at near-zero costs leads to mass personalization and real-time updates based on user sentiment.

• Marketing Transformations AI enables several groundbreaking changes in marketing strategies:

  • Instant Internationalization: Launching globally with localized content and UX in multiple languages.

  • White Glove Experience: AI provides personalized, concierge-level onboarding and customer support.

  • Explosion of Content Depth: Creating extensive and complex digital assets, such as interactive video games, to promote products.

• Upending Marketing Channels The nature of marketing channels will evolve significantly:

  • The traditional channels might become obsolete, while new ones will emerge.

  • SEO/SEM could diminish in relevance with the advent of LLMs generating vast content.

  • AI companions might become a dominant new channel, providing personalized interactions and recommendations.

• Convergence of Marketing and Sales A significant transformation is the merging of marketing and sales:

  • Traditional marketing involves broad, static broadcasts. AI enables personalized, dynamic interactions.

  • Future marketing campaigns could involve millions of AI-driven virtual sales agents engaging in tailored one-on-one conversations.

  • This approach combines the broad reach of marketing with the personalized touch of sales, transforming how brands interact with consumers.

Creator Tools

• Claude: A conversational AI platform designed for nuanced and contextually aware interactions, aiming to provide human-like conversation experiences. https://claude.ai/chats

• ChatGPT: A platform offering access to OpenAI's GPT model, tailored for engaging in conversational responses, providing information, and generating text-based content. https://chatgpt.com/

• Pika Labs: A creative platform focused on AI-driven art creation, allowing users to explore and create digital artworks with the assistance of artificial intelligence. https://pika.art/

• Runway: A creative toolkit powered by AI, enabling users to apply machine learning models to video, image, and text projects for innovative content creation. https://runwayml.com/

• Leonardo: An AI platform (not widely known as of my last update, so this description is speculative) likely aimed at enhancing digital art creation or providing AI-based tools for creative processes. https://leonardo.ai/

• Storyblocks: A stock media platform offering royalty-free videos, images, and audio clips for content creators to use in their projects. https://www.storyblocks.com/

• Dalle-3 on Bing: Microsoft’s integration of OpenAI's DALL-E model into Bing allows users to generate unique images based on textual descriptions through a web interface. https://www.bing.com/images/create

• Ideogram: An AI-driven platform focused on generating ideograms or visual symbols that represent ideas or concepts, facilitating creative visual communication. https://ideogram.ai/t/explore

• MusicFX: A Google experiment that allows users to explore the creation of music using AI, part of Google's AI Test Kitchen, focusing on experimental AI applications in music. https://aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com

• Mubert: An AI-powered platform for generating unique music streams, allowing creators to produce music through algorithmic composition. https://mubert.com/

• Suno: An AI tool focused on enhancing voice communication by offering real-time, AI-driven voice analysis and improvement features (based on the description, this is speculative). https://www.suno.ai/

• ElevenLabs: Offers AI technology for creating realistic voice synthesis and cloning, enabling high-quality voice generation for various applications. https://elevenlabs.io/

• Adobe Speech Enhancer: A tool designed to improve the quality of audio recordings, especially in podcasting, by removing noise and enhancing speech clarity. https://podcast.adobe.com/enhance

• Timebolt: A video editing software that automates the process of cutting out silences from video content, making content creation more efficient. https://www.timebolt.io

• Descript: A multi-tool platform for audio and video editing that features transcription, text-to-speech, and media editing capabilities, aimed at content creators. https://www.descript.com/

• HeyGen: Provides AI-driven tools for generating written content, aiming to assist in the creative writing process with the help of artificial intelligence. https://heygen.com/

• Opus Clip: A platform (as of my last update, not widely recognized, so description is speculative) likely focused on video editing or creation tools enhanced by AI. https://www.opus.pro/

• TubeBuddy: A browser extension and mobile app designed to help YouTube creators optimize their videos, manage their channels, and grow their audience. https://futuretools.link/tubebuddy-com

• Invideo: An online video creation platform offering tools and templates for creating professional-quality videos for marketing, social media, and more. https://invideo.io/

• LTX Studio: Specializes in leveraging AI for text-to-video generation, allowing users to create video content from written narratives. https://ltx.studio/