Generative AI News - 2023-03-03
FTC smackdown, Anthropic arms startups, Typeface does enterprise content, Microsoft raises Bing API prices, and OpenAI offers GPT API for dirt cheap
FTC Smackdown on AI Marketing
The FTC, in a rare and remarkable way, has warned companies that want to tout AI in their marketing. To stay on the right side of regulations, the FTC suggest marketers ask themselves complicate questions like, “Are you exaggerating what your AI product can do?” and such gems as “Does your product actually use AI at all???”
The Future of Influencers is Virtual
As one of “The Olds”, I’m apparently slow to realize (1) there are virtual influencers that (2) have millions of followers. AI promises to let them chat directly with those millions of followers simultaneously. They work for free (not counting the teams that maintain them), 24/7, and are always on-message.
Anthropic Supplies Text-Generating AI to Select Startups
Anthropic, the hot startup founded by ex-OpenAI employees, is providing its model to select companies like Robin AI - a legal startup. Anthropic recently received $300 million in funding from Google.
Generative AI Startup Typeface Emerges from Stealth With $65M
The company is focused on enterprise content creation, as in, “…working with a handful of companies including Sequoia Benefits Group to create optimal headlines, test different media assets, and even brainstorm content ideas.”
Google Introduces AI-Powered Search Ads
Google can generate ad copy and images based on the contents of a landing page. Early adopters report a 2% increase in conversions - which doesn’t sound huge, but the technology can’t help but improve.
Companies Team up on Responsible AI
10 companies, including OpenAI, Adobe, the BBC, and TikTok, have agreed to follow a new set of guidelines on how to use AI to generate content in a responsible way. The guidelines were developed by the Partnership on AI (PAI), an AI research nonprofit, and they aim to increase transparency and disclosure about AI-generated content and its capabilities and limitations.
What to Watch Next
Can’t figure out what show or movie to watch next? WatchNowAI.com gives great AI-powered recommendations.
Connect ChatGPT to the Internet
I’ve tested a lot of ChatGPT-related chrome extensions, but this one is pretty good. Given a prompt, it will do web searches and paste them into ChatGPT to help answer your question. It works pretty well when you need ChatGPT to answer questions that require current information.
OpenAI Makes ChatGPT API Dirt Cheap
1,000 tokens for $0.002 for GPT 3.5-Turbo - their best model for text generation, summarization, translation, and question answering. They’re also offering their translation API, Whisper, for $0.006 per minute. You can also get dedicated servers form OpenAI. And data submitted to the API won’t be used to train future models, providing a key assurance that corporate customers need.
Microsoft Hikes Prices for Bing API
Prices will increase 4x to 10x. I don’t think they even include access to Bing Chat AI.
Microsoft Adds AI-Powered Bing Chat to Windows 11 Taskbar
You can use Bing Chat right from the Windows 11 task bar once you install the latest Windows update.
Lasers, Drones and AI: The Future of Weeding
AI powered sprayers only spray weeds as the tractor drives by or the drone zips overhead. Precision agriculture is so underrated.
Zoom Jumps On AI Bandwagon
There’s so much opportunity at the intersection of AI and Zoom. Transcription, summarization, organization of meetings / transcripts. Whole companies exist to augment Zoom in ways that could be built into the product.
AI Pilots a Military Fighter
What could possibly go wrong?
Wired Mag Talks About How it Will and Won’t Use AI
Writing? No. Image generation? No. Brainstorming story ideas? Yes. Doing research? Yes.