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.
Of all the problems facing advertising, you might think that its carbon footprint would be pretty far down the list. But at least some people are paying attention, and some of those rely on Scope3 to estimate the carbon footprint of the programmatic supply chain and block high-emissions ad inventory. They just expanded their service to cover open programmatic as well as private marketplaces.
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.
Disney has agreed to license more than 200 characters, costumes, and environments (but not voices or talent likenesses) to OpenAI for Sora, its gen AI video platform. This is highly unusual for Disney, which generally sues AI models for copyright infringement; in fact, it sued Google for that a day before announcing the OpenAI deal. Disney will also invest $1 billion in OpenAI, nicely illustrating how very eager they are to join the AI party.