In the second quarter of this year, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon spend a combined $54.9 billion on AI. Constantine von Hoffman on September 12, 2024 Some interesting AI data points in the news: AI marketing assistant is the fastest-growing job in marketing with 21% projected job growth, according to a Linkee.ai study. Market … Continue reading AI-powered martech news and releases: September 12
Microsoft’s AI products aren’t doing well: The new Copilot PCs can’t run games and Office with Copilot costs twice the regular version, so no one’s buying it. Constantine von Hoffman on September 5, 2024 It’s been a bad week for Microsoft’s AI products. On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that many games don’t … Continue reading AI-powered martech news and releases: September 5
UK government promises teachers an AI chatbot helper that will “generate accurate, high-quality content.” Good luck. Constantine von Hoffman on August 29, 2024 The U.K.’s government is giving teachers AI chatbots to help them “mark and plan lessons.” The AI will be trained on government documents including curriculum guidance, lesson plans and anonymized … Continue reading AI-powered martech news and releases: August 29
A new startup is using AI to help computers generate smells in order to improve healthcare and make safer, aromas for consumer goods. Constantine von Hoffman on August 22, 2024 Can your AI smell better? That’s the goal of Osmo, a startup using artificial intelligence technology to help computers “generate smells like we … Continue reading AI-powered martech news and releases: August 22
Tech companies are spending a lot on ads touting AI, despite more research showing it turns off consumers. Constantine von Hoffman on August 15, 2024 Tech companies are spending a lot of money on ads about AI, despite tons of research showing consumers’ dislike for it. As observed here last week, products mentioning AI … Continue reading AI-powered martech news and releases: August 15
The platform, powered by Safeguard Privacy, will keep the adtech industry current on privacy compliance. Chris Wood on August 13, 2024 Today, IAB launched the updated IAB Diligence Platform, a third-party privacy compliance solution available for digital advertisers, agencies, adtech companies and publishers. The platform initially rolled out in January to begin the process … Continue reading IAB releases updated IAB Diligence Platform
Consumers are really, really not impressed with AI, consistently preferring products that don’t mention AI over those that do. Constantine von Hoffman on August 8, 2024 Does your consumer product have AI? Do yourself a favor and don’t tell anyone. A study of 1,000 people found products described as having AI were consistently less … Continue reading AI-powered martech news and releases: August 8
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
