Mon. 03/06 – AI And The Golden Age Of Scamming

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🗓️ 6 March 2023

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As Microsoft begins to integrate AI into its core enterprise and productivity products, are we ready for the scamming that AI is going to be able to produce? Details on forthcoming new iMacs. A checkin on Twitter. And why does Meta seem hellbent on ignoring what most people use VR for in the first place? Sponsors: ZocDoc.com/techmeme RelationshipHero.com/techmeme Links: Microsoft’s Latest AI Assistant Is Meant for Marketers, Customer Reps and Work Apps (Bloomberg) They thought loved ones were calling for help. It was an AI scam. (WashingtonPost) OpenAI Rival Stable Diffusion Maker Seeks to Raise Funds at $4 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg) Multicoin Capital’s Hedge Fund Lost 91.4% Last Year, Investor Letter Reveals (CoinDesk) Apple Readies Its Next Range of Macs, Including — Finally — a New iMac (Bloomberg) Musk Delayed Paying Twitter’s Amazon Cloud Bill, Sparking Ad Threat (The Information) Twitter’s Revenue, Adjusted Earnings Fell About 40% in Month of December (WSJ) I don’t think Meta knows it’s a game company (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Monday, March 6th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today
0:08.2	as Microsoft begins to integrate AI into its core enterprise and productivity products.
0:13.5	Are we ready for the scamming that AI is going to be able to produce?
0:17.8	Details on forthcoming new IMAX, a check-in with Twitter, and why does Meta seem hell-bent on ignoring what most people use
0:25.6	VR for in the first place?
0:27.6	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Microsoft has announced Dynamics 365 Co-Pilot built using Open AI's technology helping
0:40.4	draft contextual chat and email answers and more rolling out in preview,
0:46.4	quoting Bloomberg.
0:47.8	Microsoft having brought artificial intelligence to its battle with Google over search is now turning to the latest AI technology
0:54.6	to catch up with rivals in the corporate applications market such as Oracle,
0:58.6	Salesforce, and SAP. The software giant is introducing an AI assistant called Dynamics 365
1:05.4	co-pilot for applications that handle tasks such as sales, marketing, and
1:09.8	customer service. Based on technology from open AI, the software can draft contextual chat and email answers
1:16.6	to customer service queries.
1:18.5	It can help marketers come up with customer categories to target and write product listings for e-commerce.
1:24.4	The new capabilities are being released in preview form on Monday and are being tested by hundreds
1:29.4	of early customers.
1:30.8	For example, Italian Apertif Maker Campari is trying out the marketing tools to concoct targeted
1:37.5	campaigns for events around the Negroni cocktail.
1:40.7	Microsoft also said its next set of AI announcements planned for March 16th
1:45.1	will relate to workplace productivity a term the software maker usually uses to
1:50.1	mean office software end quote.
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