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 latest product and service is the latest and greatest available.  All the while, the low-profiler can keep attention trained on those supposedly latest and greatest products and/or services to inform the efforts done out of the white-hot center of the industry’s attention. Apple’s Low-Profile Approach to Gaining Market D ..read more

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 on Amazon and want to know more about this problem, which we can only assume Amazon is hurriedly working to rectify before any more costly incidents crop up, then read on.  What Went Wrong The problem with the A.I. ad placements was that the automated system would go ahead and place advertisements for products in region ..read more

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 writing.  Not all A.I. video tools generate videos, at least not yet. Many people use them simply to edit or refurbish videos. Adobe Premiere Pro Sensei integrates with Adobe Premiere Pro as a video A.I. tool. Other significant A.I. video tools include Runway and Synesthesia.  Video A.I. is Poised to Become the Nex ..read more

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 mathematical thinking and general knowledge than any other publicly available chatbot.  Claude 3 comes in two forms: Claude 3 Sonnet and Claude 3 Opus. The former is free while the latter, a much more sophisticated version, is available for $20 a month. Claude 3 Haiku will also be available for instantaneous results.  ..read more

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 innovation.  The cosmetics industry is no exception to this. It relies on understanding trends and data insights, which AI excels at. Below, we cover some of the applications (pun perhaps intended) of artificial intelligence in the ever-thriving world of cosmetics.  Beauty Is in the A.I. of the Beholder One of the big uses f ..read more

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 you want the treat or not?” and only getting a wagging tail and panting loose-tongued dog smile in return.  Or, you throw the tennis ball far in the dog park, and your pet runs after it. When the pet returns, it doesn’t hold a tennis ball in its slobbering mouth, but rather a pinecone. Sometimes, a version of this pet-r ..read more

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 depend on nurses to do good work. As a result, the job is inherently high-pressure.  To provide assistance to the nurses of the world, which is currently experiencing a shortage of nurses in the United States, healthcare providers are implementing artificial intelligence in hospital settings. Below, we cover the implic ..read more

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, and then some.  As of right now, A.I. is slowly growing from its status of being narrow-focused tools to more Swiss Army Knives for automated tasks.  How Quickly Is A.I. Growing?  Still, A.I. for the most part tends to be pretty specialized according to the algorithm(s) at work.  Part of the reason here ..read more

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 U.S. Justice System about the possible misuses and illegal uses of A.I.  This is timely, as there has been recent controversy over the exploitation of generative A.I. to create misinformation and just offensive or illegal content in general.  Mayer’s term will be up after 12 months, so you can expect to see many rule ..read more

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 threads that make use of the same information.  Users have the option to opt out of the memory.  As always, business owners should be wary of sharing any sensitive data with ChatGPT, especially now given the improved memory bank.  ChatGPT has always possessed a memory feature, but it usually confined it to one co ..read more