Need to Know News - January 31st, 2024
AI In Action
OpenAI adds ‘GPT Mentions’ feature to ChatGPT
OpenAI quietly launched one of the most exciting new ChaptGPT features of year - GPT Mentions.
GPT Mentions allow users to @ custom GPTs into a text prompt. Much like calling someone over to help with a problem, this will instruct that GPT to act on your prompt. Writing Facebook ads?...simply @ in an expert copywriting GPT to help. Then, bring in a master marketing GPT to brainstorm what creative would work best along with them.
Full Story
Dollar General Expanding Automated AI Ordering Tech
Dollar General is partnering with Shelf Engine for a national rollout of its artificial intelligence ordering technology. Shelf Engine is an automated prediction engine that predicts the perfect amount of perishable goods to order. By the end of fiscal year 2023, Dollar General expects to have the AI technology implemented in approximately 3,000 stores.
Full Story
Ola Founder’s Krutrim Becomes India’s First AI Unicorn
Krutrim, an AI startup founded by Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal, said it has raised a funding round that values it at $1 billion. The startup, founded last year, is the fastest to become a unicorn in India, it claimed in a press statement.
Krutrim, which means “artificial” in Sanskrit, is building a large language model that has been trained on local Indian languages in addition to English. The startup plans to launch a voice-enabled conversational AI assistant that understands and speaks multiple Indian languages, the startup said.
Full Story
🚀 Learn Copy from Stefan Georgi Without Spending 5k
Midjourney’s “Niji V6” Is Here — Next Level AI-Generated Anime Images
Great news for otakus and AI enthusiasts alike — Midjourney just dropped the latest version of its anime fine-tuned image model called Niji V6. Niji is an anime-specific AI model with extensive knowledge of anime, styles, and aesthetics. It’s especially adept at creating dynamic and action-packed shots with an excellent focus on characters and composition.
Full Story
At the Frontier of AI
Google Update Reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages
Google unveiled a game-changing AI upgrade for Android. But it has a darker side. Google’s AI will read and analyze your private messages, going back forever. So what does this mean for you, how do you maintain privacy, and when does it begin?
Full Story
Neuralink Implanted A Brain Chip Into A Human (For the First Time)
Elon Musk said Monday that his company Neuralink conducted its first brain implant in a human patient. “The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well,” Musk said in a post on X, his social network. “Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.”
Neuralink has been working for years on a brain-computer interface through wireless brain implants.
Full Story
What Advertising Looks Like In A Privacy-First World
Lookalike modeling popularized by Facebook and Google represented a significant leap forward, enabling brands to expand their target audiences by identifying users with characteristics akin to their specific brand audience. With the phasing out of tracking cookies and this lookalike model with them, advertisers need a new way to navigate the digital landscape.
One that uses custom AI to build campaign-specific machine-learning models using first-party data. These models would analyze URLs, scoring them based on their semantic relevance to a brand’s campaign brief. The result is a refined selection of content that aligns closely with the campaign’s objectives, surpassing the accuracy of standard segments.
Full Story
Samsung to Build All-AI, No-human Chip Factories
Samsung Electronics is planning to fully automate its semiconductor factories by 2030, with “smart sensors” set to control the manufacturing process, according to South Korean media reports. The world’s largest maker of memory chips aims to create an “artificial intelligence fab” that operates without human labor.
Full Story
Lumiere: Google’s Groundbreaking AI Video Model
Developed by Google Research in collaboration with the Weizmann Institute and Tel-Aviv University, Lumiere is unlike any other video model. It utilizes an innovative technology called "Space-Time U-Net architecture."
Unlike traditional models that generate distant keyframes followed by temporal super-resolution, Lumiere generates the entire duration of a video in a single pass. This process, involving both spatial and temporal down- and up-sampling, enables the model to produce full-frame-rate, low-resolution videos across multiple space-time scales
Full Story
AI’s Achilles Heel? New Research Pinpoints Fundamental Weaknesses
ChatGPT and similar machine learning-based technologies are on the rise. However, even the most advanced algorithms face limitations. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have made a groundbreaking discovery, mathematically demonstrating that, beyond basic problems, it’s impossible to develop AI algorithms that are always stable.
Full Story
The Copywriting Training Portal on FreeAdCopy.Com
...and it will help you learn everything you need to know about copywriting. The portal includes a mountain of video trainings taught by world-class copywriters.
These are the same high-level trainings mastermind members have paid 30k a year to access, including Justin Goff's legendary "3rd Layer" presentation.
You see, there’s actually a “3rd Layer” of understanding that most marketers and businesses don’t know about their buyers…and knowing this “3rd Layer” according to Justin...
Improves conversions significantly…
Gets you more money (as a business owner, marketer, or copywriter)...
You get less “bombs” with your ads, emails, and sales pages…
And if you’re a copywriter?
You can beat writers with more talent than you.
GOT 15 SECONDS?
Thanks for reading.
Until next time!
The AI Marketers
P.S. Want to automate your marketing with AI? Let us know what problems you want us to solve with AI and we’ll put our dedicated team to solving it. If we make the code, we’ll share it with you.
Just fill out this form here: https://bit.ly/3Smsvcy
