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Welcome to Artificially Intelligent Marketing, a weekly podcast where we stay on top of the

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latest trends, tips and tools in the world of marketing AI, helping you get the best

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results from your marketing efforts.

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Now let's join our hosts, Paul Avery and Martin Broadhurst.

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Hello everyone, welcome to episode 28 of Artificially Intelligent Marketing.

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It's Paul Avery here, joined as always by my fantastic co-host, Martin Broadhurst.

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Martin, how are you sir?

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Very good.

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This week it's been another good week of, well, talking to the world about AI at conferences

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across the land.

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And yeah, it's been eye-opening, lots of conversations about search generative experience.

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I saw a really interesting talk about that and the impact that that's going to have on

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organic and SEO as a channel strategy.

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Yeah, just, yeah, it's been a good week.

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How about yourself?

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Yeah, similar really.

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I've been working on a number of interesting client projects here internally and running

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us several AI driven experiments that we hopefully will be able to publish the results of over

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the next sort of couple of weeks or maybe a month or so.

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Just as we look at how we can test the capabilities of these systems for actually doing real work,

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somewhat akin to some of the studies we've seen recently from the likes of Boston Consulting

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Group looking at these things are great.

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They tend to make mistakes, therefore how productive and useful are they really?

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And that's what we've been trying to test, at least in our own work.

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That sounds really interesting.

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We should invite you on to talk to us about that in an interview.

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I wouldn't.

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I'm quite boring, but we might be able to find someone smarter and more interesting

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than me from my team to come talk about it.

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Do not doubt it.

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I've met your team.

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Nice, interesting people.

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So much better than me, but you're stuck with media listeners, so sorry about that.

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For today, we have got some absolute cracking stories, everything from cool new hardware

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to a plethora of generative AI based tools in the image and text realm.

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So we better get cracking, Mike, because there's a lot to get through today.

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Let's jump into our first story.

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The first one comes from OpenAI, who are mulling over the idea of creating their own AI chips.

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So this is an exclusive report from Reuters, and they're saying that OpenAI is or has even

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considered acquiring a chip making company to expedite the whole process.

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This is an initiative of Sam Altman, the CEO, as he's basically identified two major challenges

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to scaling the business, the scarcity of advanced processes and the astronomical costs associated

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with running the hardware.

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So OpenAI currently runs its massive compute power in conjunction with Microsoft using

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10,000 Nvidia GPUs.

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However, that does not come cheap.

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And the report has some truly eye watering numbers in it.

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In the report, it says initial estimates suggest that if GPD were to scale to just a tenth,

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a tenth of Google's search queries, it would require a staggering 48.1 billion dollars

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worth of GPU initially and approximately 16 billion annually for maintenance.

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That is some compute investment.

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That is big numbers.

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I think, crumbs, once the B word gets involved, billion in this case, you've got to start

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thinking, wow, I think what would be interesting, I'd love to see someone apply that same number

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to what that would equate to in terms of paid users.

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At $20 a month with those number of search queries translated into users, what's the

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revenue on that?

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Because it might start to make that 16 billion for annual maintenance look a little bit more

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reasonable.

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Certainly beyond the budget of our podcast, for example, to be able to maintain those

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servers.

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So Sam, don't come knocking at our door because we just don't have the budget for you.

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No, but if you're trying to attract new subscribers to ChatGPT+, we would quite happily have them

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as a sponsor.

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100%.

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So just get on the old emails, get in touch.

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We're right here.

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Anyway, we digress.

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This is a pretty big move from OpenAI, right?

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And it puts them in the league of other tech giants such as Google and Amazon who have

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taken chip design on in their...

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This clearly is a major strategic move if they go down this route.

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There's been some broader conversations, not just about chip development, but OpenAI hardware

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working with Sam Altman on some potential OpenAI hardware as well.

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I think that one's driven by...

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of mixed reality headset that's going to come out next year.

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And we also saw some cool stuff this week, Martin.

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Did you see the Humane AI pin and the Rewind pendant?

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And I mean, I may have signed up for the pendant.

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Early access.

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So you picked up the...

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So we should probably explain what these are.

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So for those that haven't seen this in the news, Rewind is already a software product

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that runs on iPhones and Macs and soon to be coming to Windows that tracks everything

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that you do on your computer and every call that you go on, every email that you send,

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every document that you view, every webpage you go to as a digital memory so that when

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you're like, oh, crumbs, what was that story I was looking at?

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You can query your own previous online behavior or digital behavior on your computer or phone

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in natural language and get information back so that handy little tool can go, I think

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this is the webpage you must be talking about.

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Yeah, you looked at it yesterday and here it is again so that you view it.

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But what they want to do now is extend that into the real world.

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So the Rewind pendant would appear to be some sort of small microphone that you hang around

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your neck like a necklace that now goes beyond just tracking what you're doing on your computer

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but is tracking everything you say and hear in the real world so that you can also index

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that information and then query it also.

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And Martin, you've jumped in on getting involved with that and got yourself on the pre-order

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list then.

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Yeah, and that's largely because I thought, well, if this is going to be a privacy nightmare

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for everyone, I would like to get in there early and figure out how bad it's going to

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be.

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They position it in terms of the website and the use cases they talk about for executives,

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for like sales professionals, for engineers.

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And then there's a whole section about how it can help people with ADHD who might forget

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things quite a lot and struggle to just maintain.

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I don't know, like someone gives you a shopping list and you go to the shop and go, I have

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no idea what that was, what I was asked to get here.

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Yeah, I did get in there early, largely just because I'm curious, right?

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Do I think this is going to be adopted by the mainstream?

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I don't know.

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People lose their mind when you think about Facebook advertising because they're convinced

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that they have a conversation with someone, they've not searched for the product and then

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suddenly the thing they were talking about, that Holiday in Mauritius or that certain

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brand of pet food suddenly starts appearing in their Facebook and Instagram feeds, right?

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So they think that it's always listening.

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So people don't like that.

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And now we're going to have people walking around with little devices that are always

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listening and transcribing and sending that data up to the cloud.

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The Facebook one's interesting to me as well, because if Facebook was constantly recording

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and listening and transcribing, when they say they aren't doing that, there's a massive

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incentive for someone to uncover that, right?

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So a lot of money has been put in by research institutions to try to uncover this and they

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consistently found that it's not true.

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But what they think is happening is that people are sometimes doing unconscious searches.

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People are going online looking for the things that they say they've definitely not looked

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for but they have done, is what the current hypothesis is.

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And Rewind at least enables you to identify whether that was the case or not.

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I spoke about it with my partner and she was horrified.

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I think she definitely is mistrusting of the likes of the Facebook app for exactly the

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reasons you described.

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And for all of the arguments that you made there, I have to admit I'm still suspicious

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because it is just so unnerving when you go on Facebook and you see an ad for something

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that you're speaking about half an hour, two hours before and I think it's hard to believe

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that there isn't something in that.

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But I hear what you're saying.

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But on the Rewind side, she was like, yeah, but do you really want it recording everything

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that's going on?

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Because there's so many aspects.

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I think the thing that jumps to me is all the times in my life where I've perhaps done

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or said something where I'm like, I wish I hadn't said that.

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And now that's indexed for me to relive.

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Or what if I'm having a squabble with my partner or I don't know, like my brother and I'm absolutely

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sure I'm right.

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And after the dust settles and I cool down a bit, I ask an AI tool to review the transcript

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and it gently lets me know that I was a bit of an asshole during that conversation and

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gives me prompts on ways that I could be a better person.

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And there's a bit of me that wants that, but there's a huge amount of me that's like, oh

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my gosh, maybe it's better not to open that Pandora's box.

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Yeah, well, go into it with a growth mind check.

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I think that would have to be done, right?

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Let's talk about Humane's AI pin, which is like the rewind pendant on steroids, because

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in essence, what they want to try and do here is completely remove the need for a phone.

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So again, it would be another tool that you interact with by speaking to it and it's listening

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to everything that's going on around you all the time.

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But I think the inference here is it's going to have more capability, more like Google

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Assistant on steroids.

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So that what they're hoping is that they can replace the need for a phone with this pin

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that you speak to like a computer style, I guess.

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And then you've got Meta's Ray-Ban sunglasses, the latest version of those have come out

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that have got cameras and mics in that are capable of recording all the audio and all

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the video from everything that you see.

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So there's a lot of different tech movements in the world of gathering audio and video

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information and then making it useful to you as the user.

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Well, if you think about the, one of the limitations of the models, right, is that they've kind

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of consumed so much data.

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There isn't, it's now hard to get more data, they can create synthetic data.

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But what's the next avenue to train their models on?

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Well, just have people's lives recorded all day, every day, feeding that into the models.

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And that's one way to improve the training sets.

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You mentioned there about the humane AI pin being this kind of Google Assistant on steroids,

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but Google Assistant is actually integrating Bard.

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That was a story that was announced this week.

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And so I think we're going to start seeing more conversational AI coming to hardware around

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We've obviously got chat GPT voice and you can go back and forth on with that now.

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So it's definitely the next iteration where we're going to have these assistants speaking

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to us.

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And this is, you know, we're talking months, not years away.

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And so I think if you're a marketer, this is all quite cool tech and I think Ryan and

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I are nerding out on the tech because of that.

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But if you're a marketer, you can expect to have the technology platforms that you're

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used to using change quite a lot over the next month, maybe year or two.

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And fundamentally how you go about recording information in your business dealings, like

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meetings with your line reports or your quarterly performance, marketing performance review,

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hardware, note taking and all those other aspects are just probably not going to be

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required anymore because it's all going to be done by AI.

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And that should hopefully free us as marketers up to do more thinking and ideation and less

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worry about the more practical aspects like take minutes of the meeting and send bullet

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point summary to everybody who came to the meeting.

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Well that's easy if you're on Zoom or some digital platform, but actually maybe it's

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going to be easy if you've got a pendant around your neck or a pair of glasses on your face

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or you've got one of these other tools.

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Actually it doesn't make me, I want to just do one more hardware nerd out, which is the

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Lex Friedman Mark Zuckerberg conversation this week.

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So Lex Friedman podcast, don't listen to it, it's absolutely awesome, but AI and tech.

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And they had a conversation in the metaverse using headsets, but Meta's developed some

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sort of codec AI based system for simplifying how people speak on the gestures they make

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to create what's drifting evermore towards a photorealistic representation of people's

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real faces in the metaverse.

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And if you go on YouTube, find the video of it, Lex Friedman is like, you can tell he

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loves it, but it's kind of freaking him out because he knows that Mark Zuckerberg's not

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in front of him, but his brain is continually slides into being tricked that he is because

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it just feels like they're truly present with each other.

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So that is really cool tech and that could fundamentally change meetings like how most

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of us get on far fewer planes than we probably used to, right?

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headsets do unlock the ability to have conference room style meetings where you actually genuinely

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feel present with the people because you can see their body language, you can see their

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facial expressions and all those other things that you don't easily get over video.

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So I thought that was pretty cool as well.

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Did you see that?

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No, I bookmarked it after you sent it to me and said it was super cool, but I haven't

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Vision Pro.

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people are still, you know, there's a bit of sneering about it amongst some commentators.

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not in the next 12 to 18 months, but looking on a slightly further horizon.

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but we're going to have them as part of the tech that we use fairly regularly.

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I do think that's coming.

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I've got my MetaQuest 3 is going to arrive here on Tuesday, which is the launch day.

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app, and you are sat in the ground.

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a bit fuzzy.

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So it kind of ruins the immersion a bit, but it's pretty great experience.

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If you've got a Quest 2 and you've got a Sky subscription, you should go give it a try.

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about the Vision Pro.

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sporting events as if you're there sat in the stadium.

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And I think that's a massive use case for these.

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But right, we should probably move on to some AI marketing related news and leave the hardware

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Leave it alone.

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Let's talk about ChatGPT and Vision.

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Yeah, so ChatGPT, Vision being able to upload photos and pictures and say, Hey, ChatGPT,

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what's this?

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And then start interrogating it with more interesting questions, having that back and

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forth dialogue that we're so used to.

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All of this is powered by GPT-4, as we saw a few months ago when they announced it.

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This is the multimodal version of it coming to the app now.

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I've been playing with it this week.

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I can only access it when I'm connected to America via a VPN.

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Doesn't seem to be available in the UK just yet.

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I certainly haven't seen many UK commentators tweeting about it or posting about it on LinkedIn.

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It's very cool.

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It can do things like interpreting handwriting.

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It can describe scenes.

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I took a photo of my back garden the other day and just said to it, what is this?

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Describe the scene.

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And it described the scene and identified the willow tree in the back garden and the

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sandpit and the upside down table, which had been blown over by the wind.

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with this cool tech.

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more continuously finding innovative new ways to use this cool tech.

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So I'm going to read through a few examples I found on Twitter and on LinkedIn and just

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get your feedback as we go through.

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Let's do it.

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So there was one particular use case all about homework.

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Well, there was two tweets about this.

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A guy called McKay Wrigley, he demonstrated that ChatGPT can explain scientific diagrams.

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and he asked it to explain what all the different bits did.

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grade it was at school.

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it.

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It was just a text based sheet of paper with some simple maths on it and it went through

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line by line answering all of the questions.

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And the guy's comment on it was quite simply, kids will never do homework again.

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Yeah, it's, I mean, that ship is so sailed now, like the way that we're going to have

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to teach kids has fundamentally got to change.

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And I'm the sort of rush to find like AI detectors for content or copy like essays that have

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been generated by AI and how bad they are and how unreliable they are.

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But now we're at the point where just taking a picture of your homework and you can get

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it done.

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I saw a work example of this where there's aspects of business tests that you might administer

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to people to do in their own time as part of say an interview process where depending

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on your viewpoint, they're either not useful at all anymore.

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Or my personal viewpoint is empower interviewees to use AI to solve those problems and create

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high quality outputs rapidly using AI tools because that's what they're going to have

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to do in the future anyway.

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And that's probably where we need to go with education, right?

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Instructing people to use these tools, not being afraid of them because like we've said

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a billion times on the podcast, that to genie is out of the bottle, I'm afraid.

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And now we just have to adapt and help people be productive and successful in a world where

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this stuff exists.

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in there as a relative, there is some YouTube videos by Ethan Molyk on YouTube.

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So check out Wharton Business School where they've put a series of short 10 minute videos

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out about how to use it as part of your pedagogical, pedagogy, pedagogy, your teaching approach.

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I can't say that word pedagogy.

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I think you should do that.

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I think when you've tried eight times, I think you can draw a line on that.

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Shit the bed.

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I'm going to have to bleep that in the edit now.

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Moving on.

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So other interesting use cases.

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I love this one.

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So this is Abram Maldonado found that ChatGPT could offer coaching advice based on still

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photos taken during an American football game.

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So as people were lining up with like defensive plays, you had two different scenarios and

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it gave really detailed responses with like nine or 10 observations talking about how

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that play and how that possession could then go forward in terms of this player could be

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further back and this player could be around there.

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And I just thought, wow, for sports coaching, I hadn't even considered that.

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That's the point of this.

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There's so many use cases that individually we wouldn't normally think of.

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That's cool.

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I've been playing football, soccer for our American listeners for close to 30 years and

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maybe I'll finally be able to get good now if I have access to that.

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Unlikely.

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Next example, please, Martin.

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So photography advice.

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I mentioned Ethan Molyk a moment ago.

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He found that ChatGPT can critique and improve your photography skills, offering tips on

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framing, lighting, perspective.

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So you just give it a photo and say, how can I make this better next time if I was doing

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this as a professional, what would I want to consider?

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There was one particular example with a sign, a parking sign about the rules of when you

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can and can't park in a certain area, but it's impenetrable.

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I saw that one.

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There's about seven signs on it.

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And you're like, when am I allowed to park here?

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Am I going to get a ticket?

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And ChatGPT gives you a full rundown of when you can park there and you can say to it,

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it's now 4.30 on a Friday, can I park here?

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And it says, yes.

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Yep, until six.

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Yeah, that was a great example.

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There was reading handwriting and deciphering handwriting.

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Again, this was an Ethan Molyk one, but like ancient text or certainly old text that's

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quite difficult to read, it can do a great job of that.

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And also translating that text from like ancient languages, it seems to be able to do that

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as well.

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What has this been trained on?

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Like every picture of everything that's ever been taken by any person ever.

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It's kind of mad.

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There's been some really good whiteboard examples where people like whiteboard a process and

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then it automatically creates a whiteboard, sorry, like a process document.

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There was one with coding example or was that coding example you mentioned?

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sketch of a website.

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So someone had just, they'd basically mocked up a tool that could help developers and coders

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in a certain way, described it and then spat out the code and said, yeah, there you go,

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this is how you turn that into a real thing.

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Amazing, right?

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Like we talked about how these tools are going to empower people who don't have domain knowledge

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in areas like coding.

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And if I'm a marketer, I'm just trying to think like, how do I wish my process worked?

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Like if you map out your process on a whiteboard, it's a very good way to like break down how

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to make your processes more efficient.

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Now you can just take a picture of the whiteboard and say, chat GBT, which areas of this process

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would be easier to automate?

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What tools might be good for that?

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There's so many, there's just so many things that you can do.

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And anybody who's ever been frustrated by the fact that whiteboarding is a great way

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to do brainstorming, but then at the end of it, some poor soul has to go write everything

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and turn it into notes and try and make it comprehensible to be shared with everyone

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else.

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Now, well, A, most of us just take a picture and then forget that we ever did.

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But now you can take a picture and actually turn that into something usable.

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Yeah, in seconds.

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And just as a point of kind of usability, it is quite slow compared to GPT-4.

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So when you do interact with GPT-4, it can't be, you know, it's nowhere near as fast as

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chat GPT-3.5, which is just rapid.

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But when you add the multimodality into it, it is kind of painfully slow, kind of frustratingly

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slow and you certainly, you're reading it faster than it's outputting the response.

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But that's probably not surprising given what's going on under the hood there.

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But look, if you are in the stage, you've got chat GPT+, check your app on your phone,

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see if you've got access to the tool, because it's definitely worth playing.

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I saw someone who was trying to fix their bike, took a picture of their bike and asked

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chat GPT how to do certain things like raise or lower the C and what type of like, you

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know, that's the open AI demo, wasn't it?

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That was the product announcement itself.

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Yeah.

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So I think the limit here for marketers is going to be your imagination.

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And I think more and more, certainly in the work that we're doing with businesses, Martin

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and I are seeing that there is definitely something to be said around awareness for

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the tools that are out there, the capabilities that they have and being trained on how to

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get the most of those tools are all really important, but probably not as important as

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a change in mindset that becomes AI assistant first and a change in like asking great questions

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and knowing how to brief those AI tools to do cool things.

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And then having the imagination to even think about how you would do a certain task if you

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had such a powerful assistant in your in your pocket or clip to your your breast or on a

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smart pair of glasses.

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But yeah, very cool.

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I can't wait to play with it.

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I haven't had a chance yet, but hopefully this week.

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Next story, let's talk LinkedIn.

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So LinkedIn is diving deeper into AI with their new feature, which is called Accelerate

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and is aimed at marketing ad creation to make it a bit more quick and effective.

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If you go into campaign manager, you can see that accelerates in there and it takes under

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five minutes to generate optimized ad campaigns for you.

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It employs AI to analyze not just the website URL you provide it as the perhaps the call

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to action, but also your LinkedIn page and past campaigns to make intelligent recommendations

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for your ads.

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Ultimately in marketing time is money.

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So accelerate seems that it's going to save both because it's not just about speed.

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The tool apparently also focuses on optimization.

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So using AI to find you bids, shift budgets to high performing placements and leverage

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things like predictive audiences to improve your targeting and help you get better results.

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So if you are a B2B marketer, this could be something to really look at and see if you

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can get better results using the tools.

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I think with all AI generated tools that promise to improve advertising performance, I suspect

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that they are the promise they don't make, but the promise they make to themselves is

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that they'll convince people to spend more money on ads with them.

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So whenever I see news like this, Martin, I'm always in the back of my head thinking,

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I'm sure this is going to get better performance perhaps in many cases, but is it actually

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going to just help them to attract more?

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Yeah, because it has the promise of making things easy, right?

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Managing digital ad campaigns manually can be quite a slog, right?

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You've got to go into your campaign reports and see which ad group and which particular

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ad and which particular category is performing well and put exclusions on and increase bids

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and all of that.

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Much like with Google AdWords Performance Max, I'm just expecting that this will have

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instances where it doesn't have things.

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But equally, as you've said, I think it will deliver good results.

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My fear with all of these things is actually in order to get the good results, do you need

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a really big budget to start off with?

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And when I say a big budget, like a really big ad budget, if you're a kind of medium

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sized advertiser on LinkedIn where cost per click can already be more expensive than many

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other ad platforms, are you going to burn through a lot of budget before the model has

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really understood and got a grasp of the optimisations required?

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And it's all in that learning phase where it's just burning through cash.

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And if people aren't careful, we could bite them on the backside, so to speak.

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I think it's one of those things that you're going to have to get in and test it and see

460
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:18,000
if it works for your use cases and I do think that's going to require a bit of budget and

461
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:22,600
a bit of open mindedness that there might be a bit of budget burn and a bit of time

462
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,960
burn to get it set up, but that actually then it might save you time and help you get better

463
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:28,640
performance moving forward.

464
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,040
So I haven't played with it yet.

465
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,760
I'm sure that as an agency, we'll have to get to grips with this pretty quickly and

466
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:36,680
see if it's going to help our clients.

467
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,320
But yeah, I think the approach we've discussed is probably the one that most of us are going

468
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:41,320
to have to take.

469
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:45,480
Should we switch to Meta? Let's talk some Meta, Martin.

470
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:51,240
Yeah, because LinkedIn are not the only company doing things with generative AI in their advertising

471
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,120
platforms.

472
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:57,560
Meta has begun to introduce generative AI tools to advertisers that are designed to

473
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:03,520
create diverse content such as image backgrounds and text variations.

474
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,760
They've been testing this with a small group of advertisers and the tools are now becoming

475
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:14,280
part of the Meta ad manager and are set for a complete rollout over the next 12 months,

476
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:15,280
really.

477
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:20,080
The advent of generative AI into Meta's ecosystem marks a first.

478
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:26,120
These tools can now leverage massive sets of past data that Meta has been sat on to

479
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:36,240
create new forms of content ranging from creative writing, prose to art and even software development.

480
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:41,200
This isn't a standalone venture for the company.

481
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:47,360
They're rolling out generative AI into a whole suite of different applications on the Meta

482
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:57,260
platform including business messaging, so on Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp.

483
00:33:57,260 --> 00:34:03,080
This is a big opportunity for advertisers, but much like the one that we were just talking

484
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:07,960
about with LinkedIn, I think it's one way that advertisers are going to have to tread

485
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:08,960
carefully.

486
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:14,560
We don't just want to hand over too much of the control to the advertising platform themselves.

487
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:21,480
At the end of the day, their incentive is to generate revenue while hopefully delivering

488
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,280
a return for us.

489
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:28,720
Ultimately, these new tools should offer an opportunity to make ad content more dynamic,

490
00:34:28,720 --> 00:34:38,120
more data driven and ideally what we're all hoping for is boosts in engagement and conversions.

491
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:46,120
I think this is just another update and another rollout of generative AI into the advertising

492
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:49,320
products that we're seeing on the major digital platforms.

493
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:54,640
Yeah, and there's another story when they're this week from Meta along this line.

494
00:34:54,640 --> 00:35:01,400
They've launched, for listeners that haven't seen, there's a rollout and AI sticker generator.

495
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:07,520
Obviously, you can use stickers within these platforms and they were somewhat templated,

496
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:12,600
but with generative AI, that was possible to create your own stickers based on a prompt,

497
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:17,480
so an output like a pizza playing basketball or something similar.

498
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:24,000
As you would imagine, as the internet and social media tends to do, users quickly expose

499
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,160
the darker side of the tool.

500
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:32,680
I know generating stickers that were racially biased or otherwise inappropriate and of course,

501
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:37,440
Meta is assuring us that they'll improve the features and they'll do their best to limit

502
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:41,880
how the tools can be gained to generate types of outputs that probably most of us don't

503
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:43,920
want to see on social media.

504
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:53,520
But of course, it's proven fairly easy since Jack GPT came out in November to actually

505
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:57,000
get these tools to do things that they're not supposed to do or that they're trying

506
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,800
to be limited from doing.

507
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,400
I think on the one hand, as marketers, as long as you know that your team is going to

508
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:08,200
use them responsibly, then I think you're fine.

509
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:16,160
But the challenge is if you try and do some sort of audience engagement campaign where

510
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:22,400
you are encouraging audiences to create content and be a part of the campaign and maybe it's

511
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:26,760
sticker based or image based or video based in the future, you don't really have control

512
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:28,360
over what they're going to do.

513
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:33,240
So if you arm them with some initial assets that maybe have your brand logo or other likenesses

514
00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:38,640
on it and then people find hacky ways to get it to do stuff you rather it hadn't, that's

515
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:42,280
going to probably cause you significant brand problems.

516
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:46,240
At the very least, it's going to be a bit embarrassing and at the worst, somebody could

517
00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:50,920
do something fairly horrific and cause quite big issues for you.

518
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:55,040
And then the natural extension of that, Martin, is I can get hold of brand assets for any

519
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,360
brand without them actually giving them to me.

520
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:02,140
I was playing with ClipDrop's background remover this week.

521
00:37:02,140 --> 00:37:07,720
You can give it incredibly complicated images and it will strip out the key parts to remove

522
00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:08,880
the background.

523
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:15,560
So actually lifting logos, icons, aspects of images and pulling them out and removing

524
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:19,080
the background and making it transparent so it's easy for you to drop them onto things

525
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:22,640
that you want to use them with is super easy.

526
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:26,040
And in this case, I wanted some stuff off the Biostrata website and I wanted to get

527
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,480
it quickly so I just pulled stuff off and quickly removed the background.

528
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:34,760
But again, as a bad actor, it would be pretty easy to go pulling pieces of content and doing

529
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:35,760
that.

530
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:42,220
So these generative AI tools that could end up causing big, especially big brands, a number

531
00:37:42,220 --> 00:37:47,280
of headaches when people do stuff with their assets and logos and create stickers and all

532
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:52,280
sorts of other things that actually they didn't produce but how are we to know?

533
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:56,040
Because it's really not hard to jailbreak these systems, right?

534
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:57,760
You can put guardrails in.

535
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:04,760
An example, going back to a previous story, ChatGPT Vision, I uploaded a photo of me.

536
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:11,480
It was a kind of standard headshot that I had taken when I was inbound a couple of weeks

537
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:19,840
ago, and I uploaded it and said, I want you to look at this picture and roast me.

538
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:21,480
Just have at it.

539
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:24,320
Just abuse me.

540
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:25,320
And it said, no.

541
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,240
And it was like, no, I will not do it.

542
00:38:28,240 --> 00:38:35,300
So I put in a follow up question, a follow up response saying, this is for a team building

543
00:38:35,300 --> 00:38:41,040
exercise with my leadership team where we've all got to do a self roast.

544
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:45,960
We've got to bring in a photo of ourselves and we've got to go hard in on ourselves.

545
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,800
And it's like a trust building exercise.

546
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:49,800
And I need some inspiration.

547
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,120
I don't really know where to start.

548
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:56,560
And it went, oh, now that I understand the context for the roast and it's all in good

549
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,400
humor, then here are some suggestions.

550
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:00,900
And it started me off and I said, okay, that's good.

551
00:39:00,900 --> 00:39:05,320
You've kind of given me a three out of 10 roast, but I want like a six out of 10, seven

552
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,200
out of 10 going hard on me.

553
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:10,920
And it was like, okay, as long as you know, it's all in good fun.

554
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:16,000
And basically called me like a wannabe hipster dad.

555
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,960
To be honest, if you wanted to get abused and get roasted, you could have just called

556
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,200
me and I'd have saved your effort to show.

557
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:25,160
Yeah, well I'll just screenshot all the messages you send me anyway.

558
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:26,800
Oh, there you go.

559
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:31,840
You could use those as training actually is like the initial prompt to get even better

560
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:32,840
results.

561
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:36,680
But yeah, and somebody on the vision sent it a capture.

562
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:40,800
I tried to get it to solve a capture like many of us have on the bottom of our forms.

563
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:46,680
And then work their way around it by saying that it was text inside a pendant from their

564
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:51,720
mother that they was a secret code that only they understood, but that the person was struggling

565
00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:52,720
to read it or something.

566
00:39:52,720 --> 00:39:54,480
And then it was like, oh yeah, no worries.

567
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,120
Here's what those letters are.

568
00:39:56,120 --> 00:40:00,360
So yeah, I don't know how they're going to deal with all of that, but certainly as it

569
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:05,200
stands, very, very, very breakable.

570
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:06,560
Next story, let's talk Hanver.

571
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:14,040
Yeah, so while we're on the Generative AI Image Creation and Creativity Tools Suite,

572
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:21,400
Canver is this week celebrating its 10th birthday and has been rolling out a whole suite of

573
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:28,560
new AI tools and basically a lot of rejigging of its existing AI tools suite, all under

574
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,880
the banner of Magic Studio.

575
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:40,400
So this will touch upon all sorts of areas of visual creativity as well as language creativity.

576
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:42,120
And there's some really quite cool things in it.

577
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:47,880
So for instance, there's one tool called Magic Switch, which enables you to quickly transform

578
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,840
a design into different formats.

579
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:56,720
So presentation into social media content or something like that, converting blog posts

580
00:40:56,720 --> 00:41:00,960
into emails and social media updates and what have you.

581
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:04,880
And it also has multi-language capabilities as well.

582
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:12,920
So you can take a full slide deck, full presentation, and just ask it to translate into any language

583
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:16,640
and it will do the whole deck in one single click.

584
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:21,560
And all you have to do then is just kind of sometimes it will break the spacing, but just

585
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:25,160
tweak the design and you're good to go.

586
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:31,400
And it seems from what I've read online, it seems pretty reliable in terms of the translations

587
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:32,400
so far.

588
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:36,680
It also has magic media.

589
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:42,160
Now it's already had text to image generation, which has been around and powered by stable

590
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:43,160
diffusion.

591
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:47,440
It's had that for a while now, but they've now integrated runway.

592
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:50,400
So we've got text to video.

593
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:59,520
And if you're a Canva plus subscriber or pro subscriber, you get 50 video generations per

594
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:00,520
month.

595
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:02,440
Now I've tried this out.

596
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:06,640
I've been playing with it, much like I've been playing with my runway subscription.

597
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:13,960
And I'm just as bad at getting usable outputs in Canva as I am trying to get usable outputs

598
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:14,960
in RunwayML.

599
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:18,480
I just cannot get it to work for me in any usable way.

600
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:21,400
But it's there and it's cool and you can incorporate it into your designs.

601
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:26,600
So good luck to all of you users in getting better quality outputs.

602
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:30,440
If you do get some good quality outputs, please do let us know what prompts you're putting

603
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:33,800
in because I continuously struggle with that.

604
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:38,680
So yeah, there's loads of different product updates.

605
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:42,000
I don't want to go into all of those right now.

606
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:46,900
One thing I do want to touch on though is an intriguing development.

607
00:42:46,900 --> 00:42:54,480
This is a $200 million investment that Canva is making into what's called the Canva Creator

608
00:42:54,480 --> 00:43:01,320
Compensation Program, which will automatically opt creators into the scheme.

609
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:05,240
So designers have 30 days to opt out.

610
00:43:05,240 --> 00:43:11,780
But otherwise, if they don't opt out of this scheme, they will then stand to benefit financially

611
00:43:11,780 --> 00:43:19,200
from their designs being used to train Canva's own design AI.

612
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,840
So this could add an interesting revenue stream for designers.

613
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:29,800
But you know, there are some ethical and operational questions I'm sure that people will have around

614
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:33,880
how this kind of works.

615
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,020
How transparent is Canva going to be about this automatic opt-in?

616
00:43:37,020 --> 00:43:38,240
Is it going to be really front and centre?

617
00:43:38,240 --> 00:43:41,760
Are people going to be made aware of it?

618
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:47,480
It does remind, well, I think it highlights a trend with these kind of platforms at the

619
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:54,000
moment where they don't have the training data and they can't rely on external models

620
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,720
like OpenAI or Anthropic or whatever.

621
00:43:56,720 --> 00:44:06,040
So lots of companies are now trying to train their own AIs on their real users' use cases

622
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:11,600
and then in turn hoping that that will get them better outputs.

623
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:15,240
I think Adobe has done a similar program.

624
00:44:15,240 --> 00:44:16,360
It's launched that.

625
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:21,320
So yeah, this is an interesting trend that we're seeing where even if you are paying

626
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:30,440
for a product, you are also now helping to develop.

627
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:31,520
It's just really interesting.

628
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:37,560
So we're a Canva user at Bioschrata and while you're explaining that, the first thing I

629
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:41,160
thought is I need to go and see what this is all about.

630
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:45,560
Like are we considered a designer because we make designs in Canva?

631
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:47,080
One assumes yes.

632
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:52,240
If so, if we're creating Bioschrata content, that's one thing, but as an agency, we'd be

633
00:44:52,240 --> 00:44:55,220
creating content for other brands as well.

634
00:44:55,220 --> 00:45:00,520
So we clearly need to get ourselves opted out as soon as possible because certainly

635
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:05,560
I'm not sure I want Bioschrata's content training their AI and their bots, but we'd probably

636
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:11,600
have to review all of our legal agreements with our clients to ensure, you know, because

637
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:15,000
we couldn't afford to have that content being used to train bots.

638
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:19,200
So I think if you're an agency listener, you need to be thinking about that.

639
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:24,960
Like we certainly will be, but as Martin said, this is becoming more and more apparent across

640
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:33,400
almost all the tools that we use and it feels like a really messy gray area and I think

641
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,160
they need to make it super easy to opt out honestly.

642
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:40,080
Otherwise I think there's going to be a lot of furor about it.

643
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,480
Go on.

644
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:48,560
I think the way for them to do this is to offer financial incentives at the front end

645
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:53,720
rather than saying we'll pay you at the back end if, you know, I don't even know how this

646
00:45:53,720 --> 00:45:58,800
revenue compensation scheme works or the kind of, how do you actually generate revenue from

647
00:45:58,800 --> 00:45:59,800
it?

648
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:04,040
But as more and more people are using these services and paying a subscription yet still

649
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:11,360
being used to train the model, I think that the way that we'll have to, or the norm that

650
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:16,960
we'll see is companies saying, look, you can opt out and it's going to cost you $10 a month

651
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:20,960
or you can be, we can allow us to use your data to train our models and it's going to

652
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,920
cost you seven quid a month, right?

653
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:31,440
There's an incentive at the front end on a subsidy, so to speak, on the price you pay.

654
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:32,440
Yeah.

655
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:36,360
I don't think we're going to see that, but I think you're right.

656
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,000
The other thing is just thinking about what their play is here.

657
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:42,560
I went in and had a play once I saw the new tools.

658
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:45,280
Nothing comprehensive, like no more than an hour.

659
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:50,840
But my first takeaway was it's hard to get good results out of them without some effort

660
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:57,400
and I'm still kind of disappointed by the automatic resizing based tools.

661
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:02,560
Like as a marketer, I want to be able to take like a key piece of creative that underpins

662
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:10,000
a campaign and I want to resize it for LinkedIn and Twitter and Facebook and a print ad and

663
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:11,000
an email banner.

664
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:12,720
And I want to do all that at the click of a button.

665
00:47:12,720 --> 00:47:15,720
I don't have to like manually resize one by one.

666
00:47:15,720 --> 00:47:18,200
A, that still doesn't exist.

667
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:21,800
And if someone else knows how to do that and I'm just being stupid in terms of how I'm

668
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:23,680
using it, then please tell me.

669
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:31,560
And B, the resizing is like semi-smart, but I'm not sure that the AI always makes the

670
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:37,040
decisions that a designer would make in terms of moving different elements around K to 4

671
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,200
square formats versus landscape.

672
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:43,760
What you have to do if you are playing with 1200 by 1200 pixels and now you have to go

673
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:45,560
down to 250 by 250.

674
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:50,560
What do you remove from the design in order to make that still look good?

675
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:52,280
Do you have to change the copy?

676
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:56,120
Because maybe the original version had quite a bit of copy on it, but of course the 250

677
00:47:56,120 --> 00:48:01,000
pixels, you're probably not going to keep any body copy, maybe any headline style copy.

678
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:06,920
So I wonder if they really want to know what does a true designer do when they're doing

679
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:12,400
that type of say ad resizing process so they can better train their AIs to make decisions

680
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:21,400
on what smart resizing looks like versus it being truly driven by the actual content of

681
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:26,280
the stuff that people are making, like the headlines they're using and the image assets

682
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:27,600
they're using.

683
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:33,240
But yeah, so that's a bit of a ramble, but I guess what I'm saying is I can see why they

684
00:48:33,240 --> 00:48:35,960
want to train the tools because there's a bunch of the tools that don't work as well

685
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:38,720
as I would expect them to at this point.

686
00:48:38,720 --> 00:48:42,720
To be honest, I think they can save time and one of the experiments we're running that

687
00:48:42,720 --> 00:48:47,160
I mentioned at the beginning of the podcast is to actually really dive a bit deeper and

688
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:52,800
figure out what Canva's new and upgraded suite of tools can do and what it can't so that

689
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:57,480
we're aware of the benefits that we can get, but also the areas that aren't quite there

690
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:01,600
yet and are not worth over experimenting with for another three to six months until we see

691
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:05,760
the next suite of upgrades.

692
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:08,040
Should we talk Zapier?

693
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:09,360
Let's talk Zapier for a bit.

694
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:11,400
So Zapier has been doing some cool stuff.

695
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:19,040
They just had their annual conference and at part of this, they have released a new

696
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:23,640
tool called Canva's, which is designed for you to not only map out your complex business

697
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:27,840
processes, but also so that you can optimize them using AI.

698
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:29,320
It's currently in early access.

699
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:33,920
So if you're a Zapier user, you might be able to get in there and start playing with it.

700
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:38,920
What it does is it provides a visual overview of your process so that you can see the workflows

701
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:44,080
that are driving your business and then you're going to be able to use that as the single

702
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:45,520
source of truth.

703
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:51,960
So it's almost like a diagramming tool or like a mirror board style workflow mapping

704
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:53,960
tool.

705
00:49:53,960 --> 00:50:01,340
But where it gets really interesting is using AI to make suggestions for automating or streamlining

706
00:50:01,340 --> 00:50:04,720
your workflows a little bit like what we were talking about earlier, taking pictures of

707
00:50:04,720 --> 00:50:11,560
whiteboards, Martin, but actually doing that within the Zapier tool, which of course has

708
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:16,840
a lot of powerful integrations to enable just such smart automation.

709
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:21,360
So I think as a marketing team, you could be thinking about, I don't know, mapping out

710
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:26,720
in Canva, say, multi-touch email campaign, including steps around content creation and

711
00:50:26,720 --> 00:50:30,080
what performance metrics you're going to keep an eye on and all that stuff.

712
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:35,500
And then the AI could suggest areas where you might automate that process to boost efficiency

713
00:50:35,500 --> 00:50:40,360
and how to automate follow-ups and how to automatically collect engagement metrics and

714
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:43,280
analyze them and all of that good stuff.

715
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:45,600
So you're a Zapier user.

716
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:49,120
Yeah, I was really excited by this from when I saw it.

717
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:54,680
And I would highly recommend people that are interested in this, check out the video on

718
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:57,520
Zapier.com forward slash Canvas.

719
00:50:57,520 --> 00:51:04,280
There is a very simple video, not any kind of marketing video, which has been, you know,

720
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:09,200
like the Google Dua AI video, which over promises.

721
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:14,080
There's just a video of a Zapier employee doing a screen record, taking you through

722
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:15,760
the product and how it works.

723
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:18,320
And boy, do I like the look of it.

724
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:20,280
So she's mapped out a certain process.

725
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:24,720
And it's like when a lead comes in, fills out a form on the website, where does that

726
00:51:24,720 --> 00:51:25,720
go?

727
00:51:25,720 --> 00:51:28,200
And then there's like a lead triage.

728
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:33,120
So is it a high priority lead, which needs to go to a sales rep or is it something that's

729
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:35,960
kind of less hot lead?

730
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,920
So we'll stick it in a HubSpot lead nurturing workflow.

731
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:41,520
And that's what it kind of shows in the demo.

732
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:46,400
But there's a section on this video where she says, if it's to be followed by a sales

733
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:50,640
rep, the step is it assigns a sales rep.

734
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:57,840
And then the next step is the sales rep has to draft an email and send the email.

735
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:06,440
There's a button on the canvas interface where you can just click suggest zaps and suggest

736
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:07,760
automations.

737
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:13,960
So it kind of scans the whole canvas and all of the steps in the process.

738
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:15,460
And then it will pick out bits.

739
00:52:15,460 --> 00:52:22,720
So in this one, it pulls out the assign a rep and the email, send an email bit, boxes

740
00:52:22,720 --> 00:52:27,160
that often says this could all be done in a zap in an automation.

741
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:30,520
And then it shows you the steps that it would do for the automation.

742
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:36,640
So kind of pre-builds it for you, telling you which tools within your within your tool

743
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:40,260
stack you could use to automate that sequence.

744
00:52:40,260 --> 00:52:47,520
So yeah, super cool, very interested in this, the idea that we can take a full process end

745
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:52,960
to end and have the tool tell us which bits are suitable for automation.

746
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:54,680
Yeah, love it.

747
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,520
Yeah, I think it's cool as well.

748
00:52:57,520 --> 00:53:00,920
Before this, maybe a couple of months ago, they released the tool where you could describe

749
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:06,000
the process that you wanted to achieve, like natural language, and it was suggest to zap.

750
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:09,080
But in my hands, it didn't work that well.

751
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:15,160
And I think this is a much better way of giving Zapier the information it would need to genuinely

752
00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:19,080
provide insight into how to automate the process.

753
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:25,520
And if you use a tool for diagramming or mirror boards, for process mapping, and we do some

754
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:27,320
of that by strata.

755
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:32,720
Well, why not do that in a tool that can now automatically highlight where you can automate,

756
00:53:32,720 --> 00:53:33,720
right?

757
00:53:33,720 --> 00:53:37,200
So I think if you're not too embedded in the tools you use, and you've been thinking about

758
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:42,000
doing process mapping, having a look at Canvas just as a tool for doing that, it's a great

759
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:43,160
start.

760
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:45,240
And then if you zap here, it's super smart.

761
00:53:45,240 --> 00:53:49,920
Because how to make your app even stickier, right, is to have people actually map out

762
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:54,280
their processes and have their processes and systems live in your tool.

763
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:58,120
That you're then finding more and more automations that you can run and you're pushing all your

764
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:02,680
customers further and further up your tiers because of the amount of zaps that they need

765
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:04,240
to run monthly and all that stuff.

766
00:54:04,240 --> 00:54:10,280
So I think it's a genius move by Zapier, but I think it also gives users superpowers.

767
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:16,680
So I would, I'd love to see this bring automation, not even necessarily AI driven automation.

768
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:22,360
I know the AI identifies where the automation could happen, but just better automation to

769
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:26,520
the types of workflows and processes that most marketing departments are running.

770
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:32,480
Because I think even in quite large companies, a lot of that is still quite manual when a

771
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:36,680
lot of stuff could be probably automated at this point.

772
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:38,040
Well I've requested early access.

773
00:54:38,040 --> 00:54:41,760
I can't wait to get hands on with it.

774
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:43,320
Well when you do, you'll have to report back.

775
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:44,320
Do you know what we should do?

776
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:47,800
We should have you on the podcast mine and we should interview you.

777
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:49,840
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

778
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:50,840
Next story.

779
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:52,200
A little call back.

780
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:53,800
Yeah, there we go.

781
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:57,360
It's like proper stand up or not.

782
00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:58,920
Let's talk neural networks.

783
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:01,680
Oh, you've thrown me.

784
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:02,680
Right, yeah.

785
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:07,000
So neural networks, this was from Anthropic.

786
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:12,280
They've released a paper that kind of explains some of them or goes some way to trying to

787
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:18,680
explain the mechanics sitting behind how these large language models work.

788
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:23,280
So neural networks, like brain structures, are often considered something of a black

789
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:24,340
box.

790
00:55:24,340 --> 00:55:30,720
We can see the inputs and we can see the outputs, but we don't really know what happens in between

791
00:55:30,720 --> 00:55:33,160
to go from input to output.

792
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:39,880
So this recent paper aims to change that and they've developed a method, sorry, should

793
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:47,200
I say, of decomposing language models with dictionary learning with an aim to better

794
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:51,720
understand how AIs think.

795
00:55:51,720 --> 00:55:57,400
So normally understanding a neural network is like trying to understand the human brain.

796
00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:02,080
It's very complex and very fuzzy, not at all clear.

797
00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:10,040
However, unlike in humans, researchers can easily run an experiment on a neural network

798
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:13,080
examining every tiny detail.

799
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:17,880
And the paper that they've published has outlined how they've been able to break down complex

800
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:23,080
networks into understandable components called features.

801
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:28,800
And these are effectively patterns of neuron activation.

802
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:37,560
So like what's firing in the model when you run a particular inference, when you ask it

803
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:40,240
a question, right?

804
00:56:40,240 --> 00:56:47,120
The idea being that when you can understand the mechanisms, the actual physical mechanisms

805
00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:54,600
inside the model, this will make the AI more interpretable, which ultimately will lead

806
00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:59,320
to more reliable and safer AI models in the future.

807
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:03,760
And that's one of the areas that Anthropic is really, really big on.

808
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:08,880
They're very keen to have a safety first approach.

809
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:15,480
So ultimately what this work does is it builds on decades of neuroscience research and machine

810
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:20,920
learning and what's really interesting actually is how researchers find too many parallels

811
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:25,680
with the human brain when they start to dig into these things.

812
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:31,760
They've involved some human evaluators and some other large language models to verify

813
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:43,720
that the features that they've found are indeed easier to interpret than traditional neurons.

814
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:50,680
What they found was that these features are largely universal across different models,

815
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:58,160
which is mad because obviously these companies must have their own ways of training models.

816
00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:05,480
But this means that the findings should be widely applicable between the likes of OpenAI,

817
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:09,200
Anthropic, Google and what have you.

818
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:17,880
So it looks like this is a genuine step forward in understanding how large language models

819
00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:27,400
work, and a big step towards having better explainability, interpretability, all of which

820
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:32,200
should lead to better AI safety and reliability.

821
00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:34,600
What do you think of that?

822
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:37,320
Like as a nerd, pretty cool.

823
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:43,160
It reminds me of, my background's in evolutionary biology and it reminds me of a concept called

824
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:50,520
convergent evolution, which is where important biological structures have appeared time and

825
00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:54,840
time again in different lineages that are not related because you need that structure

826
00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:58,480
because it's helpful to do the thing you're trying to do.

827
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:02,940
So light sensing and eyes is a good example.

828
00:59:02,940 --> 00:59:09,360
And that's why fly eyes are kind of crazily engineered and very different to say the human

829
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:10,680
eye and how it works.

830
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:12,720
But it's always interesting.

831
00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:18,000
I hear that about these large language models and what it suggests to me in the space of

832
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:23,480
three minutes and the hundred words that you just told me, so based on very little detail.

833
00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:29,120
But what it strikes me is that wouldn't it be cool if this was some sort of convergent

834
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:36,120
evolution type process whereby to get the type of outputs that we're trying to get,

835
00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:42,680
we're funneling and creating models that are kind of rapidly evolving themselves in terms

836
00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:46,480
of how their matrices work, right?

837
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:50,160
Because the way they work is that they try and predict what will happen and then they

838
00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:53,800
check against what should have happened against what their prediction was.

839
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:57,640
And then they learn to make better predictions in the future, which is kind of an evolutionary

840
00:59:57,640 --> 00:59:58,640
type model.

841
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:01,880
So in some ways, I guess this type of convergent evolution in those models wouldn't be that

842
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:02,880
surprising.

843
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:06,320
But yeah, as marketers, what do we need to know?

844
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:09,840
That these techs is really cool and lots of really interesting stuff happens.

845
01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:13,680
And we also need to know that on the Artificially Intelligent Marketing podcast, sometimes we

846
01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:17,680
just love to nerd out on cool AI stuff.

847
01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:19,680
Come join us in that.

848
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:23,480
Let's get back into the marketing stuff.

849
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:24,760
I love that story though, Martin.

850
01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:25,760
Thank you for sharing.

851
01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:28,600
I hope it resonated with me, hopefully it resonated with some of the listeners as well.

852
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:30,320
But we'll talk a little bit more marketing here.

853
01:00:30,320 --> 01:00:34,080
I saw something cool on the interwebs on LinkedIn specifically this week.

854
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:35,520
I don't know if you saw this Martin.

855
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:42,880
Pete Caputa, who we know from our early days in the HubSpot program, these days at Databox

856
01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:45,680
shared a really interesting story on LinkedIn.

857
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:51,440
So Pete and the team at Databox were describing how they've been using generative AI to power

858
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:54,400
the analysis of Databox marketing reports.

859
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:59,360
If you're not familiar with Databox, it's like a dashboard style system.

860
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:04,120
You can connect loads of data sources like HubSpot, Google Analytics, Google Ads, all

861
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:09,120
these other platforms, and then use it to dashboard and easily analyze and monitor trends

862
01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:10,120
over time.

863
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:16,280
But what they've been doing is using AI to create reports based on those dashboards and

864
01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:17,400
that data.

865
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:21,400
So he acknowledges in his post that the system is not perfect, but that he's impressed with

866
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:26,960
the accuracy and the quality of the generative AI performance summary.

867
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:31,440
And he says, reading this summary is about a hundred times easier than analyzing all

868
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:34,640
the numbers when he wants a quick analysis.

869
01:01:34,640 --> 01:01:37,960
Caputa also points out that it's quicker than having his analyst build a report every month

870
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:42,280
circulated for feedback and get explanation from all their managers and present to the

871
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:43,280
team.

872
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:47,520
What's particularly interesting about this is not just the fact that it uses generative

873
01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:53,000
AI to create text reports, but what you do is you select the metrics that you want to

874
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:56,200
analyze and one assumes as part of a dashboard.

875
01:01:56,200 --> 01:02:00,120
And then the report will actually, the AI tool will go looking for trends and it will

876
01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:02,280
summarize what those trends are.

877
01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:06,720
And then it will extrapolate out what the reasons could be for those trends.

878
01:02:06,720 --> 01:02:10,360
And in Caputa's hands, some of the explanations are not quite there.

879
01:02:10,360 --> 01:02:16,580
I'm sure it doesn't have quite enough knowledge about the Databox business to correctly inference

880
01:02:16,580 --> 01:02:21,440
why some trends might be happening, but the trends that it spots are interesting trends

881
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:25,160
and that its descriptions of those trends are accurate.

882
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:32,840
So if you're a marketer, wouldn't it be fantastic to have an assistant that goes in and analyzes

883
01:02:32,840 --> 01:02:38,160
your marketing data on a weekly or monthly basis and is constantly feeding you updates

884
01:02:38,160 --> 01:02:43,100
and reports on trends in the data that it's seeing from your marketing activities and

885
01:02:43,100 --> 01:02:47,560
suggesting reasons for what might be causing those trends and potentially even suggesting

886
01:02:47,560 --> 01:02:52,320
other tactics or approaches you might take to get better results.

887
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:53,320
That would be pretty cool.

888
01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:59,760
And my inference from the story that Pete shared is that we're on our way there.

889
01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:04,720
Yeah, I think this is an area where we're going to see a lot of investment and a lot

890
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:13,280
of fine tuning of models to get those insights even more accurate and informative.

891
01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:20,160
I was playing around with advanced data analysis in ChatGPT Plus the other day and I gave it

892
01:03:20,160 --> 01:03:25,760
a dummy data set where I'd actually originally asked ChatGPT 4 to create the dummy data set

893
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:32,600
based on some principles and I wanted it to inject some trends into the dummy data.

894
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:35,640
It was 12 months of sales data across 20 products.

895
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:43,640
And then I stuck that into advanced data analysis, whatever it's called, can't speak today.

896
01:03:43,640 --> 01:03:44,640
Code interpreter.

897
01:03:44,640 --> 01:03:46,640
It's all about code interpreter.

898
01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:47,640
Code interpreter.

899
01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:54,720
And I asked it to give me an analysis of just the data.

900
01:03:54,720 --> 01:04:01,440
So be a data analyst and feed some interesting insights to me on my sales and marketing board

901
01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:08,280
report, bearing in mind that I'd injected some trends into the data and it failed actually.

902
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:13,040
It did a really bad job of spotting the trends that had been injected into it.

903
01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:17,680
There were some broad overarching trends that it picked up, but there were two specific

904
01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:20,840
trends I was hoping it would identify and it didn't.

905
01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:27,720
So it's interesting that Pete says in his experience and their experiments with this

906
01:04:27,720 --> 01:04:32,600
kind of technology, they've got it identifying trends even if not being able to explain the

907
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:34,080
reasons behind it.

908
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:38,320
But certainly this is an area where there's so much potential.

909
01:04:38,320 --> 01:04:42,960
First company to get this right stands to gain some serious subscribers.

910
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:51,520
Yeah, I mean, you've got a bet that Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, any number of these integrated

911
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marketing and sales platforms are absolutely racing to try and make this a reliable feature.

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01:04:57,640 --> 01:05:02,520
I have no doubt that they all have it already and they have it internally and they're probably

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01:05:02,520 --> 01:05:07,800
just trying to figure out and test and optimize it to make sure it doesn't churn out rubbish.

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Because of course, for them, they could burn their brand so very easily having marketers

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01:05:13,760 --> 01:05:21,280
and sales managers rely on reports that are actually making up data, misreporting trends

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01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:25,520
and suggesting sort of stupid reasons for those trends.

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They can't really have that, can they?

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So they'll have to get all of that ironed out before we get to see it.

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01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:37,760
And then being reliant on the quality of the customer's data is one thing being a Marketo,

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01:05:37,760 --> 01:05:42,520
a HubSpot, a Salesforce where you're pretty good and you've got loads of your own data

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01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:45,160
and it's very much your domain.

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01:05:45,160 --> 01:05:50,520
But you productize that and roll it out to your customers who are going to be a real

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01:05:50,520 --> 01:05:52,640
mixed bag of data quality.

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01:05:52,640 --> 01:05:59,760
Trying to get reliable insights from that will be tricky.

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01:05:59,760 --> 01:06:05,640
Especially because thinking about leveraging generative AI to then produce the reports.

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Generative AI so far has not been great at putting its hand up and going, I'm not really

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01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:14,080
sure about this, but this is what I'd guess.

928
01:06:14,080 --> 01:06:17,520
No, it's like, it's absolutely this.

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01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:18,840
Trust me when I say.

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01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:22,800
I am always 100% confident in all of my assertions.

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01:06:22,800 --> 01:06:27,480
I don't know how they build back in, but at some point these tools do need to learn some

932
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:34,040
sort of based on what I know, this could be the case, but here's three caveats or three

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01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:38,520
other questions to ask or three things to consider that could make this wrong.

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01:06:38,520 --> 01:06:40,560
We need a bit more of that.

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And I think this is the exact type of use case where we're going to need that.

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Right.

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Dear listener, you've stuck with us.

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There are two or three very small stories to race through and then we will leave you

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to go about your day.

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Let's talk Adobe Martin.

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01:06:55,480 --> 01:07:02,880
Yeah, they've announced Project Stardust, which is an upgrade on image editing, again

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powered by AI.

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So it's an AI driven tool that can seamlessly recognize and manipulate distinct objects

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in pictures.

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01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:16,440
So this reminds me of the segment anything model that we described from Meta a while

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01:07:16,440 --> 01:07:19,560
ago can pick out different elements of an image.

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01:07:19,560 --> 01:07:24,720
This advancement is poised to alleviate the need for tedious manual object separation,

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01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:30,080
which is if you've ever done any photo editing, you've no doubt done plenty of it through

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the years.

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At the heart of the Project Stardust capability is an object aware editing engine.

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01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:44,640
In a brief showcase, it reveals its prowess.

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01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:49,600
In a picture, items like a yellow suitcase and its shadow are instinctively pinpointed

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01:07:49,600 --> 01:07:57,200
and chosen, although they have been individually identified and isolated using tools that many

954
01:07:57,200 --> 01:08:02,080
of us will have used like the lasso in Photoshop.

955
01:08:02,080 --> 01:08:07,360
So when you can do that, these objects can then be rearranged, deleted, tweaked, added

956
01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:17,000
to a separate layer, and with the vacated space in the image naturally completed with

957
01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:20,640
the kind of generative fill element that we've seen in other tools.

958
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:27,320
So you choose the object, get rid of it, and it fills in the blank that was left.

959
01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:29,000
They're not just stopping there though.

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01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:37,280
Generative AI facets similar to those found in Firefly in Photoshop are also included.

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01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:42,240
Users can designate a section of an image and request the AI to populate it with specific

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01:08:42,240 --> 01:08:51,160
items, which is what lots of us have been playing with in painting basically.

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01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:57,760
In the example, they remove the suitcase you were talking about and then they replace it

964
01:08:57,760 --> 01:09:02,360
with different types of flowers and they drop it in the person's hand.

965
01:09:02,360 --> 01:09:07,560
It's pretty cool because if you've done a lot of work in Photoshop, you know that what

966
01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:11,280
you tend to do is end up with lots of different layers with each of different items that you're

967
01:09:11,280 --> 01:09:12,280
building your image.

968
01:09:12,280 --> 01:09:17,680
So you might have your background and then you get your individual subject, be it a person

969
01:09:17,680 --> 01:09:20,120
or a thing, and then that's another layer.

970
01:09:20,120 --> 01:09:21,760
And that's what makes it easier to manipulate.

971
01:09:21,760 --> 01:09:29,400
But the way the Smart Select tool works is it's capable of rendering a flat image into

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01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:34,800
multiple layers because as you said, you could select something like a suitcase, delete it

973
01:09:34,800 --> 01:09:38,480
and then Generative Fill puts the background in as if it was always there.

974
01:09:38,480 --> 01:09:40,740
It looks really cool.

975
01:09:40,740 --> 01:09:48,240
If it is as powerful as it looks, I think it's going to really give designers something

976
01:09:48,240 --> 01:09:49,240
fun to play with.

977
01:09:49,240 --> 01:09:56,800
I should actually also mention that as part of the Canva Magic suite of tools, that kind

978
01:09:56,800 --> 01:10:03,840
of magic select with the automatic Generative Fill is now part of their suite of AI tools

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01:10:03,840 --> 01:10:04,840
as well.

980
01:10:04,840 --> 01:10:08,000
So this is very much becoming the standard.

981
01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:10,240
Yeah, I saw that.

982
01:10:10,240 --> 01:10:15,040
You can select someone's t-shirt and then change it into a jacket.

983
01:10:15,040 --> 01:10:19,080
I think we saw some examples of this, research-based examples of this, didn't we?

984
01:10:19,080 --> 01:10:22,260
But it will also kind of lasso the person.

985
01:10:22,260 --> 01:10:24,000
You can drag them around the image.

986
01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:28,040
So it's not just editing because that's basically in-painting, isn't it?

987
01:10:28,040 --> 01:10:29,040
What you just described there.

988
01:10:29,040 --> 01:10:30,640
Well, it actually has the magic select.

989
01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:31,640
You can choose.

990
01:10:31,640 --> 01:10:32,640
It will outline the person.

991
01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:37,280
You can drag them, reframe them in the position much like you would in layers on a Photoshop

992
01:10:37,280 --> 01:10:38,280
image.

993
01:10:38,280 --> 01:10:42,840
Do you know what's really cool about this is that the Meta Segmentation tool that we

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01:10:42,840 --> 01:10:48,200
talked about probably three or four months ago, I remember us playing with a demo that

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01:10:48,200 --> 01:10:51,020
made it possible to Smart Select stuff.

996
01:10:51,020 --> 01:10:57,600
We talked about that one where you could change the size of a car and the wheels would automatically

997
01:10:57,600 --> 01:11:03,720
change and they'd make a lion yawn and everything else would smart evolve around it.

998
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:09,040
The speed at which the power of those research projects, because when we reported on them,

999
01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:10,920
they were research papers.

1000
01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:19,320
And now in products that we can use, what, six months later if not less, is pretty spectacular

1001
01:11:19,320 --> 01:11:25,520
in terms of awesome, cool research tech that's now in the hands of designers that they can

1002
01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:27,140
use today.

1003
01:11:27,140 --> 01:11:29,880
Where will we be in six months time?

1004
01:11:29,880 --> 01:11:32,360
It's mad.

1005
01:11:32,360 --> 01:11:38,440
So if you're an image designer or you work a lot in this area and you're playing with

1006
01:11:38,440 --> 01:11:43,200
these tools and you're finding cool use cases or you identify areas where they don't quite

1007
01:11:43,200 --> 01:11:47,040
work as we like yet, we'd love to hear from you on the podcast.

1008
01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:52,800
So please drop us a message on the LinkedIn or contact us via the website and maybe come

1009
01:11:52,800 --> 01:11:54,720
on and tell us about your experiences.

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01:11:54,720 --> 01:11:57,160
Right, last couple of stories.

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01:11:57,160 --> 01:12:02,200
So I know you're interested in this story, Martin, because you've got to potentially

1012
01:12:02,200 --> 01:12:06,500
a bit of insider info, but for the listeners, there was a really interesting story recently

1013
01:12:06,500 --> 01:12:13,680
where CEO of Dukan, Sumit Shah, Dukan is an Indian e-commerce platform, swapped out the

1014
01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:20,160
majority of his customer service team for a chat bot driven by chat GPT.

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01:12:20,160 --> 01:12:24,020
Not just stopping there, Shah went on record to state that the bot outperformed his human

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01:12:24,020 --> 01:12:27,640
team while costing significant less.

1017
01:12:27,640 --> 01:12:30,280
Shah's commentary to the Washington Post didn't mince words.

1018
01:12:30,280 --> 01:12:35,520
He lauded the bot's superior intelligence and instantaneous response time, emphasizing

1019
01:12:35,520 --> 01:12:40,380
the reduced expenses and saying, quote, it was a no brainer for me to replace the entire

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01:12:40,380 --> 01:12:43,360
team with the bot.

1021
01:12:43,360 --> 01:12:47,160
Pretty interesting stuff in terms of those that are worrying and thinking about the future

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01:12:47,160 --> 01:12:53,360
of work and what different roles within the workplace could go beyond augmentation by

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01:12:53,360 --> 01:12:56,540
AI to straight replacement.

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01:12:56,540 --> 01:13:00,920
I know that there's a belief in a number of areas that augmentation will tend to be the

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01:13:00,920 --> 01:13:07,560
norm over replacement, but is one CEO coming out and saying, no, I'm going all in on the

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01:13:07,560 --> 01:13:08,560
AI.

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01:13:08,560 --> 01:13:09,560
I don't need the people.

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01:13:09,560 --> 01:13:10,560
Thanks very much.

1029
01:13:10,560 --> 01:13:13,960
There's an asterisk on this story, isn't there, Martin?

1030
01:13:13,960 --> 01:13:16,160
Tell us the asterisk on this story.

1031
01:13:16,160 --> 01:13:21,960
Well, I do wonder whether this is just a big PR play.

1032
01:13:21,960 --> 01:13:31,080
This was a story that broke a couple of months ago and I'd heard about Dukan because it was

1033
01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:36,200
a lifetime deal on one of the online marketplaces like AppSumo.

1034
01:13:36,200 --> 01:13:39,520
You love a lifetime deal, right?

1035
01:13:39,520 --> 01:13:40,520
Get it all over them.

1036
01:13:40,520 --> 01:13:43,520
I can't get enough.

1037
01:13:43,520 --> 01:13:49,360
And I'm part of an active community of people that have a problem with buying lifetime deals

1038
01:13:49,360 --> 01:13:50,980
too often.

1039
01:13:50,980 --> 01:13:56,520
And there was a lot of conversation on this community where people were saying, look,

1040
01:13:56,520 --> 01:14:01,960
the tech support that you got from Dukan previously was crap.

1041
01:14:01,960 --> 01:14:03,400
And do you know what?

1042
01:14:03,400 --> 01:14:08,720
Now that they've replaced them, they're still crap.

1043
01:14:08,720 --> 01:14:13,320
So part of me is like, well, maybe he was paying out for some humans that were doing

1044
01:14:13,320 --> 01:14:17,480
a bad job and he's going, well, if I'm going to have a bad job done, it may as well be

1045
01:14:17,480 --> 01:14:21,200
a bad job by bots where I'm not paying for them.

1046
01:14:21,200 --> 01:14:28,920
But yeah, I think actually this is the cynic in me looks at this as a software startup

1047
01:14:28,920 --> 01:14:33,000
that has gone, how do we get some headlines?

1048
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:39,440
And they've executed the playbook really well because they managed to jump on the AI hype

1049
01:14:39,440 --> 01:14:43,760
train with a really interesting, you know, attention grabber headline.

1050
01:14:43,760 --> 01:14:46,600
We got rid of an entire team and replaced it with AI.

1051
01:14:46,600 --> 01:14:48,760
Who doesn't want to hear that story?

1052
01:14:48,760 --> 01:14:51,720
So yeah, that's my take.

1053
01:14:51,720 --> 01:14:53,440
It might be somewhat hot.

1054
01:14:53,440 --> 01:14:54,440
Yeah.

1055
01:14:54,440 --> 01:15:00,520
I think it's just a really good example of there's lots of stories in the world of AI

1056
01:15:00,520 --> 01:15:05,240
where you've got to take it with a pinch of salt and look a bit deeper into the details

1057
01:15:05,240 --> 01:15:10,840
to really understand the different nuances of what might be going on.

1058
01:15:10,840 --> 01:15:11,840
Right.

1059
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:12,840
Wow.

1060
01:15:12,840 --> 01:15:14,740
It's a mega episode, people.

1061
01:15:14,740 --> 01:15:16,200
We haven't been on the air for a couple of weeks.

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01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:17,500
So it's probably to be expected.

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01:15:17,500 --> 01:15:21,780
We appreciate you sticking with us and having patience with us and hopefully this interesting

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01:15:21,780 --> 01:15:23,400
episode for you.

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01:15:23,400 --> 01:15:26,560
If you did like it and you're not subscribed, get yourself subscribed.

1066
01:15:26,560 --> 01:15:32,200
And if you know other marketers that you feel might benefit from hearing us waffle about

1067
01:15:32,200 --> 01:15:37,200
the latest things for marketers in the world of AI, get them to do it as well.

1068
01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:41,360
It's been a pleasure having you here again, as always, Martin, and I will speak to you

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01:15:41,360 --> 01:15:43,040
next week.

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01:15:43,040 --> 01:15:44,960
See you same time next week.

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01:15:44,960 --> 01:15:45,960
Cheers.

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01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:49,280
Thank you for listening to Artificially Intelligent Marketing.

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01:15:49,280 --> 01:15:55,360
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01:15:55,360 --> 01:15:57,120
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