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In this episode, we are thrilled to welcome Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek, a leading voice in the field of AI and the CEO of Clarity AI. Ranked the #4 Influencer in Voice AI by Voicebot.ai, Joan shares her insights on building custom AI solutions and discusses her debut book, Your AI Roadmap: Expand Your Career, Money, and Joy, which has already become an Amazon bestseller. Key Topics Discussed: Joan's journey in the AI industry and her experience working with Fortune 500 clients Insights from her bestselling book and how it addresses resilience, networking, and financial freedom in the AI era The importance of building custom AI solutions for businesses Highlights from her podcast, Your AI Roadmap, and conversations with top experts from industry giants like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft The future of AI and its impact on various sectors Joan's experience as a speaker at major conferences like CES and Voice Summit Guest Background: Dr. Bajorek has over a decade of experience in AI development, having led significant projects for companies such as Nuance (acquired by Microsoft), Netavox, and VERSA Agency. She has successfully closed multiple high-value contracts and is actively investing in innovative startups. Published Work: Your AI Roadmap: Expand Your Career, Money, and Joy (Wiley, 2025), featured in Forbes Connect with Dr. Bajorek: LinkedIn: Joan Palmiter Bajorek Website: Clarity AI  

In dieser Episode spreche ich mit Martin Felder, Director Business Service Centers Europe West, Linde.Wir sprechen über folgende Themen:Wie startet man eine Automatisierungs-Initiative im Unternehmen richtig?Was bringt mehr: klein starten oder gleich groß denken?Wie überzeugt man das Management von Automatisierung?Welche Prozesse eignen sich am besten für den Anfang?Wie rechnet man den Business Case für Automatisierung?Warum wird der Voicebot der Gamechanger im Kundenkontakt?Was braucht's, damit Chatbots im Kundenservice funktionieren?Erhalte jede Woche aktuelle Strategien in dein E-Mail Postfach: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.stateofprocessautomation.com/Podcast-Moderator: Christoph PacherLinkedInInterviewgast: Martin Felder, Director Business Service Centers Europe West, LindeLinkedIn

Support Good Morning Gwinnett $5.99 A Month https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/good-morning-gwinnett-podcast--3262933/support-------------------------------------------------------------------------------In this episode, we break down the exact blueprint for launching a No-Code VoiceBot Business with minimal investment.

Input geben - Networking starten!Anne Schilling von CREALOG öffnet uns die Tür zur faszinierenden Welt der Voicebots und Künstlichen Intelligenz. Sie gewährt uns einen intimen Einblick in die Herausforderungen und Erfolge bei der Implementierung eines KI-Voicebots bei einem führenden österreichischen Telekommunikationsanbieter. Trotz beeindruckender technologischer Fortschritte zeigt das Kundenfeedback teilweise Ernüchterung, da einige Nutzer die vorherige IVA-Lösung bevorzugten. Diese Erfahrungen unterstreichen die essentielle Bedeutung, die Stimmen der Kunden zu berücksichtigen, um den Erfolg neuer Technologien zu gewährleisten.Gemeinsam diskutieren wir die wichtigen Austauschmöglichkeiten auf Messen und Events, die Anne als wertvolle Plattformen zur Beobachtung neuer Markttrends und zum Austausch mit Gleichgesinnten betrachtet. Sie fordert alle Technikbegeisterten auf, aktiv am Diskurs teilzunehmen, Feedback zu geben und sich eventuell selbst als Gast bei uns einzubringen. Zum Abschluss laden wir dazu ein, die Netzwerkmöglichkeiten zu nutzen und freuen uns auf viele spannende Gespräche und Rückmeldungen von euch, unseren Hörern. Support the showVielen Dank an unsere Starken Podcast-Partner CreaLog Software-Entwicklung und Beratung GmbH und VIER. Und als Medienpartner mit dabei CMM360.Ihr wollt mehr Networking? Dann kommt in meine WhatsApp Gruppe zu aktuellen Trends und News rund um AI und Chatbots: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BilAa1OLfELKJwuyodKgkXWeitere Links:Sophie auf WhatsApp kontaktierenSophie per Mail anfragenSophies WebseiteUnd noch mehr zu AI und Bots könnt ihr hier lesen.

Google dominated the generative AI news earlier in 2024. The unexpected introduction of Gemini 1.5 is covered in depth, and guest host Allen Firstenberg discusses his first-hand experience testing the model. We also cover the Gemma open-source models and Google's latest PR misstep related to its image generation. Also on tap are discussions around Mistral, NVIDIA, Adobe, Pindrop, and a few more. Generative AI News Top Stories of the Week

We begin with an in-depth discussion of Microsoft's not-quite acquisition of Inflection AI and the billion-dollar startup's recent large language model (LLM), which appears to approach GPT-4-level performance. We carry on with the LLM roundup with a review of Grok-1's open-source debut, Apple's discussions with Google about using Gemini for the iPhone, GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 rumors, Perplexity's rumored unicorn status, Together AI's funding round and more. Of course, we also hit on NVIDIA's Blackwell announcement and the rise of GR00T. Figure 01 may have raised over $600 million for its humanoid robot startup, but NVIDIA's announcement was more impactful. Now that NVIDIA and Tesla both have active humanoid robot programs, you have two companies that know how to scale manufacturing in the segment. While I don't expect this industry to hit acceleration anytime soon, NVIDIA and Tesla will help push the innovation envelope faster and bring plans for mass production. Generative AI News Top Stories of the Week

We begin this week with three thematic discussions. Generative AI myths reviews the recent Stargate rumors and why journalists are so easily co-opted into publishing stories that may have a seed of truth shrouded in impractical, nonsensical claims. We also discuss three news items highlighting how generative AI is transforming the search market and the coalition of companies that want to displace NVIDIA from its generative AI throne. That is followed by an onslaught of news from the past two weeks. We have an LLM rundown that includes announcements from Anthropic, X.ai, Databricks, and AI21 Labs, as well as a dedicated section on OpenAI announcements. Funding highlights include HeyGen and Hailo. There is also news from Adobe, Opera, Samsung, Open Interpreter, and Financial Times. Generative AI News Top Stories of the Week

For you today, we have updates around Google Cloud Next, the LLM announcement gauntlet continues, new funding rounds, and text-to-music apps. This week's news concludes with a discussion around the shortcomings of autoregressive large language models (LLM) and why the technology is unlikely to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI). Read the news through the links below and watch my discussion with Eric Schwartz of Voicebot.ai, in which we break it all down via the YouTube video above. Generative AI News Top Stories of the Week

Over two recent weeks a landslide of stories mostly revolved around large language models (LLM). Llama 3 was the biggest news, but the debut of new models by Microsoft, Mistral, and X.ai also pointed to a downstream impact. We also have a couple of nine-figure funding rounds, a nine-figure acquisition, and a new unicorn valuation is confirmed. Read the news through the links below and watch my discussion with Eric Schwartz of Voicebot.ai, in which we break it all down via the YouTube video above. Generative AI News Top Story of the Week

Key stories in this episode include shadow AI arriving via employees, Meta's secret generative AI strategy, and a new framework for entertainment applications powered by the technology. There are also six stories about big funding rounds and several products adding generative AI-powered features. Generative AI News Top Story of the Week

OpenAI introduced GPT-4o as a new model and the foundation for ChatGPT. The company also offered more than a dozen videos and other use case examples, which enabled us to break down many of the nuances enabled by the new model. Is this the voice assistant everyone always wanted? A day later, Google debuted its latest updates for Gemini and offered a preview of Project Astra, the upgraded future of Gemini assistant, which they say will turn it into an agent for users. Google provided just a couple of videos and examples, but it also showed off a much broader set of impacts across its applications. These include search, Workspace, photos, and smart glasses (?). In all, Google had more than 100 announcement at I/O and most related to AI. Below are 20 articles and blog posts that provide added context on the biggest news across the generative AI landscape. There were a few stories we did not get to that were also of significant impact and we will likely work them into the next episode of GAIN. Generative AI News Top Stories of the Week 

Vijay Balasubramaniyan is the CEO and co-founder of Pindrop. He first joined me on the podcast way back in 2019 for episode 86. I still recommend people listen to that episode. You will learn a lot about voice authentication. In 2021, Vijay returned for episode 193. We now have him three years later and the topic is new.   Deepfakes and voice clones are common topics of discussion now, but Pindrop has been working on this for more than seven years. As a leading voice authentication solution, the team was intent to understand how voice clones could be used to impersonate a trusted user. Fast forward to 2023 and 2024 and they have a commercial product called Pindrop Pulse for deepfake detection.   It is state of the art deepfake detection that is already being used by several large financial institutions. Results from customers deployed in 2023 show a 99% identification rate for voice clones created by the leading synthetic voice providers, 90% for zero-day voice clones from unknown providers, and both metrics come with a sub-1% false positive rate. These stats are essential as you will see lots of claims, but most are identifying a small subset of voice clone types or carry an impractically high false positive rate.  

Joanna Czajka joined me to discuss how her team integrated OpenAI technology into the Opera browser to provide more value to users. She goes into the journey that started with rethinking the browsing experience and being midstream in that process when ChatGPT launched. That led to more rethinking of the experience and the introduction of several generative AI features.

Here are fifteen generative AI news stories from the past week. Links to the articles are below, or you can watch the GAIN Rundown via YouTube above. Deepfakes and momentum by Microsoft topped the news this week, while positive moves by Google may have gone unnoticed. Plus, we have another deep dive into new retail-oriented solutions, new funding rounds, and more. Generative AI News Top Stories of the Week

We have 16 generative AI news stories from the first two weeks in February. The evolution of assistants topped the news with ChatGPT, Gemini (aka Google Bard), and Hugging Chat. We break that down in depth and how memory and how generative AI personal assistants are attempting to fill in the gaps where their predecessors fell short. There is more funding news, and a number of new products from Slack, AirBnB, and Otter. We talk about smart glasses, a new product in the category that is not from Apple, and the unglorious history of the category. And, we also do a breakdown of the new USPTO guidelines on AI-assistant patent applications. Generative AI News Top Stories of the Week

Sixteen generative AI news stories from the past weeks were on the agenda for this week's edition of GAIN. You can watch the video discussion above or click the links below to read the news. Meta, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, ByteDance, Anthropic, Amazon, Walmart, McKinsey, 1x, Will.i.am, and more all had news this week. Eric Schwartz, head writer of Voicebot.ai, joined me to discuss the stories behind the news in generative AI. Generative AI News Top Stories of the Week

Google once again made our featured story section with an independent benchmark performance analysis of the Gemini Pro LLM compared with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. We go into more depth about the benchmarks and how to interpret the results. Channel 1 says it's positioned to change the news media with its virtual human avatar-delivered stories and Accenture did a lot of generative AI revenue. Eric Schwartz, head writer of Voicebot.ai, joined me to break down the news this week and offer additional context behind the headlines. Generative AI News Featured Stories of the Week

We highlighted 19 generative AI news stories from early January in the latest episode of GAIN. Watch the video discussion above or read the news through the links below. CES is the featured segment at the top, with some hits and misses but mostly misses. We also have news from OpenAI with two ChatGPT announcements. That is followed by news from Google, Poe, and a number of funding rounds. Eric Schwartz, head writer of Voicebot.ai, joined Bret Kinsella to break down the news.  Generative AI News Featured CES Stories of the Week

On this episode, we explore whether voice-first experiences will be as ubiquitous as the internet and smartphones — and how brands can prepare for a voice-first future.Voice technology offers distinct advantages over other forms of inputs, allowing for lower effort customer interactions, increased efficiency and improved accessibility.With recent advancements in generative AI, voice-first experiences – the combined process of voice recognition and natural language processing – have the potential to completely transform how we interact with our devices in our everyday lives, leveraging multimodal environments to create the ultimate interface.Listen for the compelling insights of Tobias Dengel, president of WillowTree, a TELUS International Company, and Bret Kinsella, founder, CEO, and research director of Voicebot.ai.Tobias's book, The Sound of the Future: The Coming Age of Voice Technology, is available for purchase in hardcopy, digital and audiobook formats.Visit our website to learn more about TELUS International.

Google ranks as our featured story section with the launch of the Gemini LLM and the new AI Studio. Mistral and Microsoft were other big newsmakers with the introduction of small LLMs this past week. And there is a lot on the new product and funding front, the EU AI Act, an OpenAI and news media tie-up, and a lot more. Generative AI News Featured Stories of the Week

GPTs enable users to create a custom ChatGPT experience for themselves and others. Developers gathered to discuss their early creations using OpenAI's latest innovation and wat they've learned.  

This week continues the theme of market shift. Satya Nadella correctly aligned with the generative AI zeitgeist in focusing on practical applications of the technology. Individuals and companies have moved past bewilderment and wonder and now want to begin implementing and adopting solutions that offer tangible value. Eric Schwartz, head writer of Voicebot.ai, joined me this week to break down the news onslaught from Microsoft, more maneuvring from OpenAI, and a few other announcements. Generative AI News Featured Stories of the Week

Today, we have a special episode that was recorded in the midst of the OpenAI management saga where CEO Sam Altman was fired and then hired back. While the management issues have been updated, I thought you might like a window into how developers were thinking about this incident and how the harm in reputation and relationships won't soon be resolved.   Included in the panel are OpenAI developer ambassador Bram Adams, long-time OpenAI advocate and developer Bakz T. Future, GPT innovator Leslie Pound, and my Voicebot colleague Eric Schwartz.   We break down what was happening but really focus on the impact on developers. I think you will find the discussion insightful.

To say November closed with a flurry of generative AI news is a severe understatement. OpenAI almost melted down pulled it back together, and then we had a birthday for a little product called ChatGPT. Nearly every OpenAI competitor attempted to seize on the company's turmoil and ramped up their visibility for sales, product announcements, or fundraising. Amazon released a slate of new announcements at the AWS re-invent conference. NVIDIA's quarterly revenue looks like a vertical line. And that's not all. Eric Schwartz, head writer of Voicebot.ai, and I break down the news once again this week and hopefully offer a little perspective on the story behind the story. Generative AI News Featured Stories of the Week

Your Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown is here. This week represents a market shift. OpenAI Dev Day is the biggest news, but Grok from x.ai/Twitter/X, GitHub Copilot, a big cyber attack, and other stories depict a rapidly shifting market. We saw shifts earlier this year, but many seemed reactionary or random. Today, everything seems much more intentional and grounded. Featured Stories of the Week

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for November 3, 2023 is here. Just when we thought it might be a slow news week, it just pours in. Eighteen stories this week! Generative AI News Featured Stories of the Week

OpenAI Dev Day offered the industry a lot of new announcements and useful features. GPTs offer a no-code ChatGPT customization option for users, the Assistant API provides new features for developers, and GPT-4 Turbo is more capable and less expensive to use for chat use cases than 3.5, and maybe GPT-4 itself. If you would like a 12-point rundown of the OpenAI Dev Day announcements, check out this summary from Sythedia.  Joining me this week are four developers that use the OpenAI APIs and have deep experience in everything from conversational AI bots to RAG-based vector databases. They offer some practical insights into the importance of various announcements and their likely market impact. The guests include: Joao Paulo Alqueres - CEO and co-founder of Iara Digital Michael Freenor - director of applied AI at WillowTree Michal Stanislawek - CEO and co-founder of Utter.one Tejas Totade - CTO at Ruder Finn This conversation was also broadcast live through LinkedIn and YouTube. You can watch a five minute super-cut of the Dev Day keynote followed by the developer panel here.  The recording was a special edition of the Generative AI News Rundown, also know as GAIN for short. Join us for a live stream discussion about the top generative AI news of the week on LinkedIn or YouTube on Thursdays at 11 am ET. 

This week's Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown covers two weeks of news. Eric Schwartz of Voicebot.ai and I jammed in 16 different news stories and a few other tidbits in this double roundup. Featured stories this week include: OpenAI Economics - OpenAI is generating a lot of revenue from ChatGPT Plus subscriptions and API usage by software providers. However, the popularity of Azure OpenAI Service is siphoning off many of those API customers as they move into production on Azure, which means lower margins for the LLM kings. SEO in Crisis? - Generative AI search is about to reap substantial change in the SEO industry, and we consider the analysis of a Texas A&M marketing professor's warning that the current crop of SEO consultants may be facing extinction. Foundation Models and Transparency - Stanford researchers have a new 100-point generative AI model transparency checklist. We consider the good, the bad, and the ugly of this endeavor. Generative AI winners and losers of the week. Generative AI News Links to the stories we covered this week are included below. Featured Stories of the Week

Atul Deo, general manager for Amazon Bedrock, the generative AI service from AWS, recently shared the company's view on the industry, use cases, technology, and how Amazon is serving its customers.  Thoughout the hour-long interview, Deo talked about his experience with machine learning in customer contact center applications, transcription services, natural language processing, and generative AI. He expands on the compay's generative AI strategy as well as the technology architectures it supports. Prior to his role overseeing the Bedrock service, Deo worked on AWS products such as Connect, Transcribe, and CodeWhisperer. He also held roles in corporate development at Amazon and Yahoo! and began his career as a software developer. 

This week's Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown focuses more on features and economics than foundation models. Featured stories this week include: Adobe and Canva show the marketers new tool sets - Adobe introduced a new list of features, upgraded Firefly models and a new text-to-vector-image model that will make manipulating AI generative images easier. Canva also extended its generative AI features as the too companies take different paths in rolling out generative AI. Generative AI Economics - Some apps with generative AI features charge for the capabilities while most do not. We walk through the market, what is being charged and, notably, who is not and why. Generative AI winners and losers of the week. Generative AI News Links to the stories we covered this week are included below. Featured Stories of the Week

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for September 14, 2023 is here. We are seeing another acceleration in the news cycle. Featured stories this week include: NVIDIA and the Chip Industry Rises - New GPU performance gains for existing H100 chips, the expected improvements from the GH200, and a revenue rise for the global semiconductor industry. Jobs at Risk From Generative AI - A Forrester study calls out some professions that will be most impacted by generative AI automation and will either eliminate jobs or create the need for new skills. LLMs that Reason and Act - We discuss the Imbue funding round and why enabling LLMs that reason and agents that can act on our behalf requires total company focus to reach the objective. Generative AI winners and losers of the week. Generative AI News Links to the stories we covered this week are included below. Featured Stories of the Week

We have another episode of the Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown, which provides a live discussion of the week's top industry news. This week, the tech giants were out in force with news from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and OpenAI. Featured stories this week include: Alexa Gets an LLM - Amazon has had a large language model (LLM) for years, but never let it out of the lab until ChatGPT changed the market seemingly overnight. Amazon has fully embraced LLMs at this point and started to infuse it through AWS, and across its Alexa-enabled products and services. Eric and I discussed what was demonstrated this week, my hands-on experience with the capabilities, the limitations, and more inside details. Hour One Can Change What You Say in a Video - Hour One just launched a really interesting new feature that enables you to change what people say in a video. Add a new script or upload an audio file, and it will match the person's mouth and facial movements with the written text. This can be used for your own footage or stock video. Check out the demo here. Assistants on Parade - Google Bard got an upgrade this week with a connection to Google Workspace and other Google services. This may be truly useful and extend the value of Bard to a level of personalized benefit we have not yet seen in the market. Microsoft also announced Copilot will come to Windows 11 next week, and ChatGPT is expected to get access to DALL-E 3 text-to-image generation. This led to a more general discussion about digital assistants and the different models that are emerging. Generative AI winners and losers of the week. Generative AI News Links to the stories we covered this week are included below. Featured Stories of the Week

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown wrapping up an active September had more big stories than any other week of the month. The tech giants were out in force once again with news from Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI. Featured stories this week include: Amazon Goes Long on Anthropic, and Bedrock Gets a Boost - Amazon's $4 billion investment in Anthropic is more evidence that, at one level, large language models (LLM) are just weapons for use in the cloud wars. It is designed to capture more cloud computing revenue for AI workloads and boost the reputation of Amazon's AI server chips. In addition, Amazon Bedrock, the foundation model garden, now has Meta's Llama 2. OpenAI's Giant Valuation Increase and ChatGPT Gets an Upgrade - The reported $80-$90 billion valuation that OpenAI is pitching has many levels of nuance. However, one element that doesn't require nuance perception is the new 2023 revenue forecast. It beat the original estimate by 5x. ChatGPT also received a big upgrade this week and saw the return of internet browsing. Generative AI winners and losers of the week. Generative AI News Links to the stories we covered this week are included below. Featured Stories of the Week

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown wrapping up an active September had more big stories than any other week of the month. The tech giants were out in force once again with news from Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI. Featured stories this week include: Amazon Goes Long on Anthropic, and Bedrock Gets a Boost - Amazon's $4 billion investment in Anthropic is more evidence that, at one level, large language models (LLM) are just weapons for use in the cloud wars. It is designed to capture more cloud computing revenue for AI workloads and boost the reputation of Amazon's AI server chips. In addition, Amazon Bedrock, the foundation model garden, now has Meta's Llama 2. OpenAI's Giant Valuation Increase and ChatGPT Gets an Upgrade - The reported $80-$90 billion valuation that OpenAI is pitching has many levels of nuance. However, one element that doesn't require nuance perception is the new 2023 revenue forecast. It beat the original estimate by 5x. ChatGPT also received a big upgrade this week and saw the return of internet browsing. Generative AI winners and losers of the week. Generative AI News Links to the stories we covered this week are included below. Featured Stories of the Week

We return this week with the Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for September 8, 2023. Get ready for a lot of product announcements and some special segments on NVIDIA and how cloud providers are influencing the competitive landscape: NVIDIA Blowout revenue - GPU purchases are upstream of generative AI software sales. NVIDIA just announced a record quarter that was nearly double the previous quarter and quarterly record. It also forecasted a new revenue quarter for the next quarter. We put into context how this will flow down into cloud and software revenue. Cloud Wars and LLMs - What role do the cloud hyperscalers AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud play in the LLM competitive landscape? We look at the ecosystems and how cloud distribution could make or break an LLM's adoption. Generative AI winners and losers of the week. Commentary this week is led by Voicebot.ai's head writer, Eric Schwartz, and Bret Kinsella from Synthedia and Voicebot.

Patricia Scanlon is the founder and executive chair of Soapbox Labs, the company behind the industry's leading automated speech recognition (ASR) for children. Scanlon has a PhD in speech recognition, signal processing, and machine learning from the University College Dublin, and previously was an adjunct lecturer at Trinity College and on the research staff of Nokia Bell Labs. She founded Soapbox Labs after recognizing that all leading ASRs were trained on adult speech data and showed poor results for children, particularly young children.  Since founding Soapbox Labs in 2013, the company has helped leading software providers bring ASR to education, gaming, and other applications designed for children. We discuss many of the applications and how education has changed since COVID.  Scanlon is also Ireland's AI Ambassador and we discuss market education for consumers, business, and government, as well as the draft EU AI Act. She was previously a guest on the Voicebot podcast in episodes 129 and 206, from 2019 and 2012, respectively. 

Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for August 31, 2023. Google may have dominated the headlines this week, but it was hardly alone. Special segments this week include: ChatGPT Enterprise - What was announced, where is it headed, and what are the implications? BTW, you may be interested in the Yammer go-to-market strategy reference as point 7 in the main article. We also put ChatGPT Enterprise in perspective alongside Google's more ambitious play. Google Uses Cloud Next to Shift Generative AI Perception - We go through more than 15 different announcements and the implications for the market and debate the merit and importance of different moves. Generative AI winners and losers of the week. This week, Eric Schwartz, Voicebot.ai's head writer, and I were joined by Google Developer Expert (GDE) Allen Firstenberg to break down the Google Gen AI Palooza and other top generative AI stories. Also, if you'd like to hear more from Allen, check out his Two Voice Devs podcast/YouTube show. Generative AI News Links to the stories we covered this week are included below. Like Perplexity AI, we give you source links! Featured Stories of the Week

Preparing for the future of AI is a top priority for startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. Where's the best place to start? When it comes to brand messaging in digital marketing, how will AI impact the ‘era of authenticity'? How will increasingly ubiquitous AI chatbots affect customer engagement as they become another competitor for attention and information retrieval? Bret Kinsella, Founder, CEO, and Research Director of Voicebot.ai, explores these challenges and offers solutions to effectively leverage generative AI's transformative potential. His insight on the future of AI takes cues from the lessons of pre-generative AI applications: he doesn't believe content creation should blindly increase simply because AI offers efficiency. Marketers need to act differently. In this far-reaching conversation, Bret leads us through the path of AI production and implementation, where ethical quandaries surrounding policy and data governance loom. As a leading voice in artificial intelligence, Bret dives into best practices, keeping in mind the changes in customer expectations, the trend towards more polished marketing productions, and the future of online monetization. This episode is essential listening for longtime AI enthusiasts as well as new initiates grappling with AI adoption.Hot topics discussed: Is artificial intelligence really going to take your job? AI's impact on customer expectations and engagement Challenges in delivering personalized experiences The best AI apps for productivity and quality Strategies for preparing for an AI-driven future Keep the growth going: Connect with Bret Kinsella, Voicebot.ai Founder, CEO, & Research Director on LinkedIn Subscribe to Bret's newsletter Synthedia on Substack Subscribe to Voicebotai + Synthedia's Generative AI News (GAIN) weekly rundown on YouTube Connect with Billie Loewen, WillowTree Partner & VP of Growth Marketing on LinkedIn Connect with Billy Fischer, WillowTree Partner & VP of Business Development on LinkedIn Follow WillowTree on LinkedIn

Oren Aharon is CEO and founder of Hour One, a leader in virtual human innovation, and a pioneer in generative AI. He joined Bret Kinsella to talk about how the technology behind virtual humans has evolved and the role generative AI is playing in the next set of features.  Hour One's new Reals Activate technology can transform any video into a scripted virtual human experience. It will align mouth movements and sounds to match a script to the video of a person. This means any video of you or anyone else can be transformed into a virtual human experience. Aharon debuted this technology for the first time publicly for the Voicebot Podcast audience.  If you would like to view the demos, a video of the full interview is available on Voicebot's YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/voicebotai.  Aharon also talks about the market for virtual humans and how the rising interest in generative AI has accelerated use case adoption. He earned a Phd in electrical engineering from Technion and formerly was a co-founder at Kadoor Electronics and Vectorious Medical Technologies.

It's time for the Generative AI News (GAIN) Rundown for August 17, 2023. Special segments this week include: Using GPT-4 to moderate LLM inputs The groups pressuring CEOs to adopt generative AI Generative AI winners and losers of the week. Voicebot.ai's head writer, Eric Schwartz, joined Bret Kinsella this week to break down all of the top industry stories. Generative AI News Links related to the stories are included below if you want to go deeper into any topics. Top Stories of the Week OpenAI wants you to use GPT-4 to moderate your GPT-4 based applications Two charts reveal why so many enterprises are rushing to adopt generative AI Generative AI Funding Fountain The $100M Anthropic deal with SK Telecom provides insight into where LLMs are headed Voiceflow added $15M in new funding on the back of rapid user growth and generative AI DynamoFL raises $15.1M to scale privacy-focused generative AI for enterprises OpenAI acquires digital studio Global Illumination Generative AI Product Garden IBM Embeds Meta's Llama 2 LLM in New Watsonx generative AI platform Amazon deploys generative AI for summarizing product reviews Google rolls out new generative AI search features U.S. DoD forms generative AI task force Roblox is deploying its own generative AI models and infrastructure at lower cost Detecting Deepfakes - Pindrop demos its anti-fraud voice clone detection More About GAIN   GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week's discussion on Voicebot's YouTube channel. Please join us live next week on YouTube or LinkedIn. Also, please participate in the live show by commenting, and we are likely to give you a shoutout and may even show your comment on screen.

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown is back for August 24, 2023. Special segments this week include: What does the market data say about generative AI adoption? We look at 10 charts that explain a lot about what is happening, why it is happening, and where we are headed. Meta challenges OpenAI with an open-source automated speech recognition and translation system. Game on! Generative AI winners and losers of the week. Eric Schwartz, Voicebot.ai's head writer, and Bret Kinsella gathered again this week to break down the top generative AI stories and a few other useful pieces of information. Generative AI News Links to the stories we covered this week are included below. Like Perplexity AI, we give you source links! Top Stories of the Week - Market Data

Eric Schwartz, the head writer at Voicebot.ai, joined Bret Kinsella to break down the top Generative AI News (GAIN) of the week. Generative AI News - Featured Stories this Week OpenAI rumors spread for GPT-5 and the open-source G3PO. Is this the response to Meta's Llama 2? Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa are both expected to add generative AI capabilities in 2023. Could this finally lead to the blending of doing and knowing assistants? Generative AI Funding Fountain Inworld raised another $50M+ to bring total funding to around $120 million and now claims to have a $500 million valuation. Generative AI Product Garden Meta releases the open-source text-to-sound generator AudioCraft. Apple removes over 100 iOS apps from the Chinese App Store in advance of the new generative AI rules taking effect. Google Deepmind debuts a new generative AI communication language for instructing robots. And it works! Stack Overflow announced tentative steps into generative AI land with OverflowAI. News mobile app Artifact introduces celebrity voice clones you can have read the news to you. Winners and Losers We concluded with our generative AI winners and losers of the week. More About GAIN GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week's discussion on Voicebot's YouTube channel. Please join us live next week on YouTube or LinkedIn. Also, please participate in the live show by commenting, and we are likely to give you a shoutout and may even show your comment on screen. Or, just listen here. You decide!

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for August 11, 2023 is here. Special segments this week include: GPTBot and OpenAI's plans to politely crawl the web, along with how most websites will react or should react Amazon's generative AI strategy and how that will carve out unique positioning compared to OpenAI, Google, and others The significance of Alexa's top exec shifting to generative AI Generative AI winners and losers of the week. My Voicebot.ai colleague Eric Schwartz and I were joined this week by Vixen Labs CEO James Poulter to go deep on our first four stories. Thanks James!

Eric Schwartz, the head writer at Voicebot.ai, was joined by GAIN producer and Synthedia researcher Andrew Herndon. Generative AI News - Featured Stories of the Week OpenAI introduces Custom Instructions to add personalization to ChatGPT. OpenAI removed its Text Classifier that was supposed to identify whether content was AI-written because it didn't work. Of course, Turnitin and others still say they can spot AI-written text, but provides no evidence to back up the claims. Synthedia was the first to break this story BTW. The ChatGPT App for Android racked up over 1 million downloads in 24 hours, more than a week faster than the iOS app reached that milestone. Synthedia also was the first to break this story

Project Voice gathered again in Chattanooga, Tennessee in April 2023. I had the opportunity to interview several innovative companies while on site.  2:16 - LilyPad AI, Genady Knizhnik - Conversational AI for English language learning 11:09 - Conversation Design Institute, Hans Van Dam - Conversation design evolution 23:11 - Speechly, Collin Borns - Speech recognition tools to combat voice chat toxicity 31:00 - ConverseNow, Ben Brown - Conversational AI for restaurants 42:51 - Calen, Irakli Beselidze - Enterprise contact center automation 53:42 - Dexer, Bruce Rasa - Voice AI for hands-free inspection and recording  

Here is the Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for July 20, 2023. Special segments this week include: Meta launches Llama 2, making it open source and free for commercial use. We talk about the implications for the LLM market. Did GPT-4's performance really degrade, as has been reported? We look at the research paper results, evaluate the methodology and consider a rebuttal. We also cover the generative AI winners and losers of the week. My Voicebot.ai colleague Eric Schwartz joined me this week, and we went in-depth on the top news. Generative AI News Links related to the stories are included below if you want to go deeper into any topics. Top Stories of the Week Meta Just Became a Big Player in the LLM World, Making Llama 2 Free and Open Source New Research Says GPT-4 is Getting Worse. But is it True? Generative AI Funding Fountain Cognaize Raises $18M to Build a Better LLM for the Finance Sector Preply Closes Out Series C at $120M and Doubles Down on AI SAP Announces Investments in Aleph Alpha, Anthropic, and Cohere Generative AI Product Garden "Apple GPT" is Built on the Secret Large Language Model Ajax Microsoft Unveils Bing Chat Enterprise AI21 Labs Combats Generative AI Hallucinations With New Contextual Answers API Wix Text-to-Website Showcases How Copilots Streamline Complex Tasks and Can Shape Expectations Jasper AI Laying Off Staff 9 Months After $125M Raise Brands in Generative AI Lands Associated Press Licenses its News Archive to OpenAI and will Begin Using LLMs Deepfake Scam Video Features British Consumer Champion Martin Lewis and Elon Musk More About GAIN   GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week's discussion on Voicebot's YouTube channel. Please join us live next week on YouTube or LinkedIn. Also, please participate in the live show by commenting, and we are likely to give you a shoutout and may even show your comment on screen.

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown is back and was recorded on July 13, 2023. Special segments this week include: Anthropic's ChatGPT competitor Claude 2 landed, and it has some intriguing features. The discussion also includes a quick demo. Is ChatGPT's website traffic drop a reason for concern? We break down the numbers and also touch on a brand new FTC action against OpenAI. We also give you a new list of generative AI winners and losers of the week. My Voicebot.ai colleague Eric Schwartz joins me today to go deep on the news. If you prefer to watch the show, you can always see the latest GAIN recording here.  Generative AI News   Links related to the stories are included below if you want to go deeper into any topics. Top Stories of the Week Anthropic's ChatGPT Alternative Claude 2 Has an Awesome New Feature and is Now Available to Everyone ChatGPT Web Traffic Drops. Is Generative AI's Hype Cycle Ready to Plunge? OpenAI Makes the GPT-4, DALL-E, Whisper, and ChatGPT Model APIs Generally Available FTC Investigating ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for Possible Consumer Harm Generative AI Funding Fountain Voices.ai Raises $6M for Real-time AI Voice Filter Resemble AI Raises $8M and Launches Deepfake Voice Detector Generative AI Prompt Engineering Startup Vellum.ai Raises $5M UK Startup Prolific Raises $32M to Expand 120K-Person Network of Generative AI Model Testers KPMG Plans $2B Investment in AI and Cloud Services AI Seen Fueling Microsoft to $3T Value in Morgan Stanley Model Generative AI Product Garden Shutterstock Follows Adobe and Offers Legal Protection from Generative AI Copyright Claims Unity Unveils Generative AI Marketplace for Video Game Developers X.ai to Formally Launch Business on Friday Brands in Generative AI Lands Mayo Clinic Begins Testing Google Med-PaLM 2 Generative AI Model Gizmodo the Latest Media Publisher to Notch a Generative AI Fail Virgin Cruises Adopts Deepfake Jennifer Lopez as Spokesmodel More About GAIN   GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week's discussion on Voicebot's YouTube channel. Please join us live next week on YouTube or LinkedIn. Also, please participate in the live show by commenting, and we are likely to give you a shoutout and may even show your comment on screen. Please share this post with a friend, and don't forget to subscribe to the YouTube channel. Thanks!

How are ChatGPT and the rise of large language models impacting conversation designs and designers? Today, in Part 2 of our series on conversation design, we have four more experts weighing in on how the profession is changing and what designers should consider and do about it. Joining me today in a series of one-on-one interviews are: Maaike Coppens is vice president of product at OpenDialog AI, where she started as head of UX and conversation design in 2020. She was a product designer at XAPPMedia, labworks.io, and Smartly Ai. She was also a UX consultant at Applause. Maaike was my guest on episode 284 of the Voicebot Podcast in 2022. Rebecca Evanhoe is the co-author of the popular book Conversations with Things: UX Design for Chat and Voice published by Rosenfeld Media. She is a visiting assistant professor at the Pratt Institute in New York, where she teaches a graduate course in conversational UX design, was a conversation design consultant for AWS, a voice user interface designer at Mobiquity, and a writing instructor at the University of Florida. She and her co-author Diana Diebel were my guests on episode 220 in 2021. Kane Simms - is the founder of VUX World and a co-organizer of the Unparsed conference. VUX World is a strategic consultancy focused on conversational user experiences and is also the name of a popular podcast on practical conversational AI topics. Kane has a long history of work in technology transformation and as a writer before moving into conversation design. He was my guest in episode 178 in 2020.  Hans Van Dam - is the CEO of the Conversation Design Institute and a co-founder and board member of the conversation design consultancy CDI Services. He is also a research fellow at RMIT University. Hans joined me on the podcast for episode 192 in 2021. Also, the Unparsed Conference on conversation design is coming up later in July 2023 in London. If you use the code VOICEBOT, you get two tickets for the price of one. That applies to the in-person and online conference tickets. Definitely try to join online if you can't make it to London. It is a great speaker lineup. You can sign-up at https://bit.ly/unparsed2023. 

Host notes - My apologies about the audio quality. We recorded on the road, and the mic setup didn't work as planned. The YouTube video audio is a little bit stronger if you want to watch this week. Also, the conversation and guest commentary is very good, so I wanted to put it out there anyway. In particular, I think you will like the discussion around LLMs and Theory of Mind, generative AI in education, and the potential erosion of generative AI startup valuations.   The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown this week was recorded on July 6, 2023. Some special segments include: Mythical generative AI capabilities. From the theory of mind to general AI to emergent abilities, generative AI claims keep getting proven wrong. The generative AI funding fountain continues to be strong, but we discuss whether some companies are struggling to grow into their high valuations. We also give you a new list of generative AI winners and losers of the week. Generative AI News Links related to the top stories are included below for anyone that wants to dig deeper into a topic. Top Story of the Week Did ChatGPT Really Develop a Theory of Mind? Do Large Language Models Have Emergent Abilities? Generative AI Funding Fountain Inflection AI Raises $1.3 Billion Runway Lands $141 Million in New Funding Typeface Raises $100 Million for Branded Synthetic Media Platform Generative AI Content Startup Scriptic Raises $5.7 Million Generative AI Productivity Startup Dust Raises $5.5 Million Generative AI in the World German News Publisher CEO Confirms Generative AI will Replace Jobs 24 Top UK Universities Draft New AI Principles - Commit to Generative AI Education More About GAIN GAIN is recorded live and streamed via YouTube and LinkedIn on Thursdays. You can re-watch each week's discussion on Voicebot's YouTube channel. Please join us live next week on YouTube or LinkedIn. Also, please participate in the live show by commenting, and we are likely to give you a shoutout and may even show your comment on screen.

How are ChatGPT and the rise of large language models impacting conversation designs and designers? Today, in Part 1 of our series on conversation design, we have four experts in the field weighing in on how the profession is changing and what designers should be thinking about. Joining me today in a series of one-on-one interviews are: Maaike Groenewege is an independent conversation designer and the creator of Convocat. She is currently the conversation design lead, prompt engineer, and NLU trainer at a U.S.-base stealth-stage startup. Groenewege has worked for 25 years as a designer, linguist, and technical writer. Tom Hewitson is the founder and CEO of Labworks.io, a webby-award winning conversation design studio and one of the leading voice-first game studios. Hewitson is a former journalist, content strategist at Facebook, and digital editor for Lonely Planet. He is also a lecturer at City University London and the organizer of the Unparsed Conference on conversation design. Peter Isaacs is the senior conversation design advocate at Voiceflow. He was previously a conversation designer at WooliesX, a division of Woolworths Group in Australia. Karen Kaushansky has been a conversation designer for 27 years. She is currently a Staff Conversation Designer at Google, and led the design for Google Watch. Also, the Unparsed Conference on conversation design is coming up later in July 2023 in London. If you use the code VOICEBOT, you get two tickets for the price of one. That applies to be the in-person and online conference tickets. Definitely try to join online if you can't make it to London. It is a great speaker lineup. You can sign-up at https://bit.ly/unparsed2023.