Having used up all the available human-made data, scientists are now training large language models on AI-created data. This is a very bad idea. Constantine von Hoffman on August 1, 2024 Charles II of Spain What do artificial intelligence and the Holy Roman Empire have in common? Inbreeding by both produced something called the … Continue reading AI-powered martech news and releases: August 1
The IOC’s AI agenda, aimed at cleaning up its image and improving the Olympics, results in social media monitoring and athlete support chatbots. Constantine von Hoffman on July 25, 2024 Welcome to The Olympics, now with AI! Earlier this year, the International Olympic Committee (which definitely no longer has any problems with corruption) released … Continue reading AI-powered martech news and releases: July 25
80% of consumers expect a future where marketers stop advertising to humans and instead target the AI assistants that will do all the shopping. Constantine von Hoffman on July 18, 2024 Predicting the future is a rube’s game and AI is no exception. Nonetheless, the fine folks at Ericsson put out a list of … Continue reading AI-powered martech news and releases: July 18
Customers really don’t want AI being used for customer service. A Gartner survey found 53% saying it might make them switch to a competitior. Constantine von Hoffman on July 11, 2024 You might want to hold off on using AI for customer service: 64% of customers don’t want companies to replace people with bots, … Continue reading AI-powered martech releases and news: July 11
Please don’t get your news from AI chatbots Please. pranav dixit Fri, Jun 28, 2024 REUTERS / Reuters This is your periodic reminder that AI-powered chatbots still make up things and lie with all the confidence of a GPS system telling you that the shortest way home is to drive through the lake. … Continue reading Please don’t get your news from AI chatbots
The smallest companies are biggest AI adopters: 42% of companies with 10 or fewer employees are now using it, only 23% of those with 100+ are. Constantine von Hoffman on June 27, 2024 Small companies are the biggest adopters of AI, according to a new report. Pipedrive’s Annual State of Sales and Marketing report … Continue reading AI-powered martech news and releases: June 27
Is AI an existential threat to humanity? Probably not. Will that stop people from spending billions to prevent it? Probably not. Constantine von Hoffman on June 20, 2024 One of OpenAI’s founders has a new company dedicated to solving a problem that doesn’t exist and likely never will. Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence is focused … Continue reading AI-powered martech news and releases: June 20
There’s cashing in on a trend and then there’s Oral-B adding AI to a toothbrush and calling it the “Genius X.” Should have gone with Ex-Genius instead. Constantine von Hoffman on June 13, 2024 Was the text in the ad AI-generated or did it require a human to create the typo in “where your … Continue reading AI-powered martech news and releases: June 13
By one calculation companies spent $50 billion on NVIDIA chips used to train AI last year but only brought in $3 billion in revenue. Constantine von Hoffman on June 6, 2024 No one doubts AI can be a great help to businesses. However, is it any good as a business? None of the companies … Continue reading AI-powered martech news and releases: June 6
The huge amount of media attention given to AI hasn’t created much interest in the general public, according to a new study. Constantine von Hoffman on May 30, 2024 Since OpenAI made ChatGPT publicly available at the end of 2022, artificial intelligence has ridden a tidal wave of earned media attention. This has created … Continue reading AI-powered martech news and releases: May 30
