The Spark | Edition 19

The Spark | Edition 19

The Spark | Edition 19

Tuesday, 23 January 2024

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Ben Hacking

Co-founder & CEO

tl;dr

  • 😅 There's a rising number of Amazon products called "I cannot fulfill that request" due to lazy use of AI

  • 💸 LinkedIn interviewed >2000 marketing leaders and spotlighted the financial services industry

  • 👕 Elon Musk's Tesla Robot folds a t-shirt

  • 😅 There's a rising number of Amazon products called "I cannot fulfill that request" due to lazy use of AI

  • 💸 LinkedIn interviewed >2000 marketing leaders and spotlighted the financial services industry

  • 👕 Elon Musk's Tesla Robot folds a t-shirt


😅 Lazy use of AI leads to Amazon products called “I cannot fulfill that request”

Have you seen any Amazon products called "I cannot fulfill that request" or "Sorry but I can't generate a response to that request" lately ?

🤖 Bringing the full power of Copilot to more people and businesses

Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now generally available for small businesses with Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Business Standard Customers for $30 per person per month.

👀 YouTube is getting serious about podcasts

Google is phasing out Google Podcasts and pushing creators to upload their content to YouTube and YouTube Music instead.


👀 Early Chrome deprecation data analys in a cookie-less world

An early analysis shows that uncookied Chrome users appear to be monetizing about 30% worse than those with cookies.

📈 Google Ads PMax auction insights box adds competitor data

The update now shows top advertiser data with comparison data and a new section labeled "competitors entering and exiting" for PMax.

🔥 B2B Marketing Benchmark: Spotlight on the financial services industry

LinkedIn polled close to 2000 marketing leaders, and shares insights into how benchmarks within financial services differ from other industries.


🎓 AI comes to higher education as OpenAI partners with Arizona State University

Arizona State University partners with OpenAI to bring AI to higher education, with AI tutors being one of the core use cases that will be examined.

👀 Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence

Mark Zuckerberg talks about Meta's ambition to build Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and whether or not they would consider open-sourcing the technology.

👕 Elon's Tesla robot is sort of 'ok' at folding laundry in pre-scripted demo

Elon Musk's Optimus robot folds a t-shirt, but it's still far from autonomous. Nevertheless, with the rapid developments within the fields of AI and robotics, we might not be too far away from a world with humanoids along our side.


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Note: Some of the graphics were made using Midjourney. Check out my tutorial here.

That's all! Please ping me if you have any thoughts, comments or feedback on this format. See you next time 👋

- Ben

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