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. Summit. The late-January event gave business owners and researchers and government representatives the opportunity to brainstorm and learn about this fast-growing technology.  And also of course that summit was an opportunity to find out ways to advance and likewise implement A.I. within the state of Kentucky, fostering ..read more

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 number of notable examples out there that pertain to this most interesting development in the A.I. world.  But one of the A.I.-powered search engines that has been catching the eyes of many in the tech world is Brave’s search engine called Answer.  Brave the Company Makes Brave the Web Browser Firstly, Brave Software, I ..read more

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 to develop A.I. that can rival some of the largest A.I. offerings by companies like OpenAI (a Silicon Valley start-up that has multi-billion-dollar backing by Microsoft).  But Meta does so through an approach that is decidedly different from some of the other leading A.I. companies. Meta’s Approach to A.I.  A ..read more

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 on Reddit can lead to a good ranking.  Think about why this may be: a blog post may show up on featured snippets for a search query, but a target audience may be more attracted to Reddit posts from users in organic search results. Including relevant search terms and link building are things that SEO practitioners consc ..read more

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 or system. The goal of a digital twin is to do more than just visually represent the thing, as in a simulation.  Rather, the goal of a digital twin is to create a genuine virtual environment that can take in data in real time. That data can lead to real-time updates to the digital twin, so that the virtual envi ..read more

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