AI

OpenAI's Sora, an almost unbelievable text-to-video generator, has been making waves since it was announced. In February, Sora was made available to a select group of "red teamers" for security and stability testing, as well as to a limited number of visual artists, designers, and filmmakers for feedback on its video generation capabilities. Continue Reading →

According to Inflection AI, Inflection-2.5 performs at more than 94% the average performance of GPT-4, despite using only 40% of the training FLOPs (floating point operations per second). Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer shares his insights on the evolution of search engines and introduces us to Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine that's changing the game. Original Airdate: March 12, 2024 Continue Reading →

Should Google be worried about Walmart's rapid success using generative AI to humanize search? Some say yes; I say no. Continue Reading →

Generative AI is a skills amplifier, not a skills democratizer. Said differently, if you're great at your job, proper use of a generative AI model will make you measurably more productive. If you suck at your job (or if you don't know the subject you're asking generative AI about), you're still going suck. Let's review. Continue Reading →

U.S. lawmakers voted 50-0 to force the sale of TikTok, alleging that the app's links with the Chinese Communist Party pose significant threats to national security. The House Commerce Committee approved a bill that would require ByteDance (TikTok's owner) to sell the company within 180 days or risk losing access to the U.S. market. Continue Reading →

Anthropic prompt engineer Alex Albert got everyone's pixels in a pickle when he tweeted that Claude 3 Opus (Anthropic's newest hopeful ChatGPT killer) demonstrated a type of "metacognition" (or self-awareness) during a "needle-in-the-haystack" evaluation. Continue Reading →

Anthropic claims that Claude 3, the company's most recent AI release, has achieved "near-human" capabilities in various cognitive tasks. It's a bold claim. Let's put it in perspective. Continue Reading →

The excitement around AI, and its ability to impact almost every function across the enterprise, is forcing a lot of CEOs to consider revising their corporate governance structures. As you can imagine, the org charts vary dramatically ranging from centralized hierarchical oversight to decentralized distributed innovation. The emergence of the Chief AI Officer (CAIO), AI task forces, divisional ownership by business unit leaders, and SVP-level committees are all common approaches. Here's what we've been seeing. Continue Reading →

I am thrilled to announce our first AI for Brand Marketers Summit powered by Brand Innovators & Shelly Palmer, hosted by Paramount Global (June 4-6 in NYC). Continue Reading →