The Artificial Intelligence Show
Formerly the Marketing AI Show — arguably the most practical advice for business leaders trying to make AI actionable rather than just approachable.
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#28: The AI Inflection Point Is Here
At Marketing AI Institute, we are seeing strong quantitative and qualitative evidence that indicates we are at an AI inflection point, where the technology begins to go fully mainstream in 2023—with profound effects on…well…everything. For years, we have hypothesized that AI has the power to change just about everything in marketing, business, the economy, and society at large. In 2022, we saw that hypothesis confirmed thanks to an explosion of AI capabilities and technologies driven by the stunning power of generative AI tools like ChatGPT. In a matter of months, even the brightest minds in A
#27: Head-to-Head AI Writing Tools Test, Will ChatGPT Replace Google, and MyHeritage AI Time Machine
Mike and Paul are back for another episode of The Marketing AI Show. Paul ran a head-to-head test of AI writing tools and posted about it on Twitter and LinkedIn. On both platforms, the posts gained traction and good feedback from our community and from technology companies. In the experiment, Paul ran the same three prompts/use cases through a handful of different tools. The tools were OpenAI’s ChatGPT and their Playground functionality; Cohere; Jasper; Writer; and HyperWrite. It’s an interesting case study showing AI in action. Next up, we’ve all seen plenty of examples online, many impressi
#26: McKinsey's State of AI 2022, Lensa AI, and AI Will Eat Software Companies
Paul and Mike discuss three hot topics in the world of marketing and artificial intelligence: An app called Lensa AI is taking the world by storm—and creating a lot of controversy as it does. Lensa allows you to upload photos of yourself, about 10-20 selfies, then it uses AI to generate dozens of avatar photos of you in many different styles, from serious and realistic to fantastical. The app has been generating $1 million or more in revenue per day as everyone and anyone can now create images of themselves using AI. But controversy ensues. For five years now, McKinsey has been conducting its
#25: What Is ChatGPT, What It Means for Marketing, and How It Will Change Business As We Know It
Paul and Mike are back on The Marketing AI Show covering this week's top stories in AI, marketing, and business. This week, ChatGPT takes center stage, but there are also some other developments worth mentioning. On November 30, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a chatbot that anyone can converse with by typing in text prompts. All you have to do is type in a question or a command, and ChatGPT produces a response. Now, this sounds simple, but everyone in the AI world is positively stunned by the result. That’s because, as Kevin Roose at the New York Times puts it, “ChatGPT is, quite simply, the best ar
#24: AI in the Workplace, OpenAI Funds Entrepreneurs, and Google Unveils New AI Projects
While our Institute focuses on AI in the marketing world, some of the biggest companies in the world are finding AI applications for the business world and our personal lives. Artificial intelligence will be, and already is, embedded in our world. What are the big players working on? Mike and Paul discuss this on this week’s podcast. This episode kicks off discussing consulting firm Deloitte, who recently published a rundown of how AI for work relationships could be the next big thing in your office. Deloitte says that AI can “analyze human interactions during and after an event to generate pe
#23: Google Penalizes AI-Generated Content, Responsible AI Guidelines, and AI’s Impact on Local News
This week Paul and Mike talk about three news stories and happenings in the world of artificial intelligence, and they break down their importance to marketers. In a word (or two): buckle up. Well-known marketer Neil Patel recently revealed the results of Google’s latest algorithm updates on sites he owns that have AI-generated copy—and the results weren’t pretty. Patel disclosed that he has “100 experimental sites that use AI-written content.” He claims the sites are simply to figure out how Google perceives AI-written content, not to “game” the algorithm. Regardless of the motivation, he sur
#22: Adobe Adopts AI Images, DALL-E 2 for Product Design & Sequoia Capital Goes All-In on Generative AI
Paul and Mike return, discussing three more hot topics in the world of artificial intelligence. Adobe, along with many other innovators, has been experimenting with Generative AI. It is a transformational technology, one that will accelerate the ways artists brainstorm and explore creative avenues — and make creativity accessible to millions more people. At the same time, like many new technologies, Generative AI has raised valid concerns. Among the questions: How is the work of creative people being used to train AI models? And how will we know whether something we see was created by a human
#21: Gartner Sales AI Predictions, Funding for Generative AI, and Labor Augmentation vs. Automation
It was a busy week in the world of artificial intelligence! Mike and Paul are back on The Marketing AI Show to discuss three AI hot topics in the news. They’ll add their take on these developments and what it means for marketers and business leaders—and perhaps with an idea or two on how the Marketing AI Institute could support you. Gartner came out with a report identifying seven technology disruptions that will transform sales over the next five years. Gartner says sales leaders need to recognize, prioritize and respond to these disruptions: generative artificial intelligence (AI), digital t
#20: The AI Bill of Rights, Building AI-Driven Companies, and Meta’s Make-a-Video
This week Paul and Mike talk about three AI stories in the news and add their take on these developments and what it means for marketers and business leaders. On October 4, the White House released what it calls an “AI Bill of Rights,” a document that offers a blueprint of “five principles that should guide the design, use, and deployment of automated systems.” It is not binding in any way, legally or otherwise. But they are an important initial effort by the US government to draw attention to the impact of artificial intelligence on our daily lives. In an exclusive interview with McKinsey rel
#19: Marketing Artificial Intelligence Book
This is a special, book-launch edition for Marketing Artificial Intelligence: AI, Marketing and the Future of Business, which is available starting June 28, 2022, in audio, digital, and print. Marketing AI Institute’s Founder & CEO, Paul Roetzer, and Chief Content Officer, Mike Kaput, join forces to show marketers how to embrace AI and make it their competitive advantage...and discuss it on this week's podcast. Marketing Artificial Intelligence draws on years of research and dozens of interviews with AI marketers, executives, engineers, and entrepreneurs. Roetzer and Kaput present the current
#18: AI for CMOs
In a survey by IBM, 3,000 CEOs said technological factors were the number one concern for their enterprises over the next two to three years. As a result, 60% say they’re accelerating digital transformation efforts. This should be good news for CMOs. According to research from The CMO Council, the majority of the C-suite says the essential role of a CMO is to be a digital transformation leader. As companies go all-in on digital transformation driven from the top, CMOs should stand to benefit. But are CMOs prepared? In this week’s episode, Paul and Mike break down some key findings from our AI
#17: AI for Advertising
AI has many use cases for the marketing world, and this week Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput are talking about AI for advertising. From allocating ad budgets to optimization, ad versioning, targeting, copywriting, and more, AI can help advertisers and agencies more than many realize. This episode is the first in a series of AI use cases by marketing discipline, based on chapters of their new book, Marketing Artificial Intelligence: AI, Marketing, and the Future of Business. Paul and Mike talk about case studies including HOLT CAT, Vanguard, and more.
#16 The Future of Business is AI or Obsolete
With each day that passes, and each advancement in artificial intelligence language and vision technology, it is becoming more apparent that there will be three types of businesses in every industry: AI Native, AI Emergent, and Obsolete. Paul Roetzer kept running through examples in his mind—retailers, ecommerce shops, marketing agencies, event businesses, media companies, law firms, medical practices, artists, writers, graphic designers, financial advisors, banks, insurance brokers and carriers, software makers, game and app developers, real estate brokers, consumer products makers, hotels, r
#15: AI for Event Marketing
In this week's episode, Paul and Mike sit down to talk about AI and how we use it at the Marketing AI Institute. With our annual Marketing AI Conference (MAICON) coming up in August, we're currently marketing the event and pushing registrations. But with so many folks in our database, how can we laser focus our efforts? We're using AI and technology to help us predict high priority contacts based on their probability to purchase (more intelligent)...so we can reach out to them with customized, personalized communications (more human). We get transparent about our internal processes and hope yo
#13, AI for CMOs series with Andrea Brimmer, Ally
As part of our AI for CMOs series sponsored by Persado, Paul Roetzer is interviewing CMOs paving the way in onboarding and scaling AI-powered technologies in their marketing and businesses. In this second episode in the series, Paul sits down with Andrea Brimmer, CMO of Ally. Ally, a leading full-scale digital financial services company, is currently using AI-powered technologies for conversational AI, document management, and to speed up and more efficiently run processes. Brimmer is widely recognized as one of the country’s most innovative and effective marketing leaders. Among her many hono