Generative Media Mania: Shopify's Sidekick, SDXL Image Gen, and Runway's Image to Video

Generative Media Mania: Shopify's Sidekick, SDXL Image Gen, and Runway's Image to Video

Author: Paul Avery and Martin Broadhurst July 29, 2023 Duration: 35:51

In this week's Artificially Intelligent Marketing, we cover:

  • Shopify launches Sidekick, an AI-powered support agent that can answer business questions and suggest actions based on a user's Shopify data.

  • Wix releases an AI website builder to help users build high quality websites from text prompts.

  • Major US AI companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft agree to manage risks of AI by ensuring transparency, fairness, safety, human control, and privacy.

  • Elon Musk launches new company X with talent from OpenAI and Google, aiming to create "good AGI".

  • Apple is reportedly developing its own AI chatbot "AppleGPT" to compete with OpenAI and Google.

  • Writers using ChatGPT took 40% less time and produced 18% higher quality work according to a study in Science.

  • Mayo Clinic is using Google's MedPalm2 AI chatbot for hospital training, performing comparably to doctors.

  • Stability AI releases image generation model SDXL 1.0 to rival Midjourney, with 10.1 billion parameters.

  • Rewind launches a personal AI iPhone app to record and search users' digital interactions using GPT-4.

  • Amazon announces Agents for Bedrock to let companies build conversational agents accessing proprietary data.

  • Cohere unveils Coral, an enterprise knowledge assistant chatbot connecting to company data sources.

  • Cybercriminals launch FraudGPT, an AI tool for malicious coding and phishing on the dark web.

  • Eleven Labs releases new synthetic voices with accents and delivery styles for generative audio.

  • Runway launchedsvideo generation from images, creating animations from Midjourney and other image outputs. The results are impressive.

  • Stability AI open sourced large language models FreeWilly 1 and 2, outperforming GPT-3 and even GPT-4 in some cases.

  • Martin gives us an update from the AI Marketing conference MAICON


Every week, Paul Avery and Martin Broadhurst get together to untangle the complex and rapidly evolving world where marketing strategies meet artificial intelligence. Their Artificially Intelligent Marketing podcast is a straightforward conversation for professionals who need to move beyond the hype. Instead of abstract theory, you’ll hear specific breakdowns of the latest tools and real-world applications that are changing how brands connect with audiences. The discussions are grounded in current events and practical analysis, focusing on what these technological shifts actually mean for day-to-day operations and long-term planning. Alongside their own deep dives, Paul and Martin regularly bring in leading voices from across the industry-practitioners and innovators who share firsthand insights you won’t find in a press release. Tuning into this podcast feels like having a direct line to the frontier of the field, where each episode clarifies how AI is being woven into the fabric of modern marketing, from data analytics to personalized customer experiences. It’s an essential resource for anyone looking to understand not just what’s happening now, but where the industry is headed next.
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