Excitement about ChatGPT and friends is already being replaced by doubts it can live up to the hype. (Here’s a Gartner take, for example.) What’s good about that is vendors are already building tools to address those concerns. For example, Credo AI, an AI governance software vendor (yes, it’s a category), just released GenAI Guardrails, which helps companies minimize the risks of AI misuse and build the most valuable applications first.
If you spent yesterday trapped under a rock (bad) with a dead cellphone (worse), you might not have heard that Google announced all sorts of AI-related things at its I/0 conference. We didn’t cover it because everyone else did. But lest we be totally left out, here’s news that they just launched ML Hub, a free destination to help users at all levels take advantage of machine learning models – which includes more than just generative AI.
Persado was using AI to create marketing content when ChatGPT was still learning to sing Daisy. They haven’t had much attention recently but did just release this interesting study that found senior marketers do no better than chance at picking the winner among three possible email subject lines. The key is less that AI generates better content than that Persado tests many alternatives to find which performs best.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.