Adobe’s AEP AI assistant helps with your marketing

Adobe’s new AEP AI Assistant is designed to help organizations make better use of customer data and optimize their marketing efforts. It can answer questions about customer segments, provide real-time insights, and create personalized marketing materials on demand, including copy, design, and images.

Connect Claude to any API

Anthropic is extending its AI chatbot Claude with a feature that can be used to create custom solutions such as email assistants or shopping bots. By connecting to any programming interfaces (APIs) and with a little programming knowledge, it is apparently possible to develop versatile AI assistants that can, for example, provide personalized product recommendations, …

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You.com lets users create personalized AI assistants

The You.com search engine allows users to create their own personalized AI assistants using top language models such as GPT-4 or Llama 3. This allows users to tailor the AI to their individual needs.

Showrunner lets users create their own TV shows

The new streaming platform “Showrunner” from studio Fable allows users to create their own series episodes with the help of AI by generating scenes with short text instructions and then combining them into episodes. The goal is ambitious: Showrunner aims to become the Netflix for AI-generated content, allowing viewers to actively participate in the production.

Perplexity introduces “Pages”

Perplexity has introduced a new feature called “Pages,” which uses AI to automatically create reports on a topic. Pages creates a custom website for which it researches information and writes the text. However, the feature has been criticized for copying content from news sites such as Forbes, CNBC and Bloomberg without giving sufficient credit, Forbes …

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Kling is a brand new AI video generator from China

Kling, a new AI video generator from the Chinese company Kuaishou Technology, impresses with quite realistic videos in high resolution that can be created via text input. Although Kling is currently only available with a Chinese phone number, its open beta approach puts pressure on other vendors: OpenAI, for example, continues to keep its video …

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Apple shows its approach to AI

After Google and Microsoft showed how they are integrating the new generation of AI into their products and services, it was Apple’s turn. One thing quickly became clear: Apple wants its AI capabilities to be not only useful and easy to use, but also to protect users’ privacy. The “Apple Intelligence” feature set consists of …

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Hallucination

Today’s language models are primarily trained to provide helpful and easy-to-understand responses. At the same time, it is possible for the AI to make up information that fits the text perfectly and looks factual, but is actually made up. Such errors are often called hallucinations. These can be avoided, for example, by using an optimized …

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AI fear in 1927

In his 1927 film “Metropolis,” Fritz Lang showed an artificial intelligence that frightened people. In the film, which describes a future with clear class distinctions, a robot known as a “Maschinenmensch” causes unrest. The robot, which is initially used as a worker, later takes the form of a young woman named Maria and provokes an …

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SambaNova sets speed record

SambaNova has set a new speed record for the Llama 3 language model, reaching 1,000 tokens per second. The company uses its own chips and software designed specifically for enterprise needs. The high speed enables faster response times, better hardware utilization and lower costs.