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OpenAI's First Developer Conference, Salesforce Boosts Slack with AI, and Google Reveals Both Pixel 8 Phones and Pixel Watch 2
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Not Just Product
September 10, 2023
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OpenAI will host its first developer conference on November 6 🗓️
Salesforce announces new AI and automation features for Slack 💼
Generative AI: A pragmatic blueprint for data security 🔒
Leveraging AI content optimization for improved SEO 📈
Zoom's new 'AI Companion' will catch you up when you're late to meetings ⏰
Clubhouse is pivoting from live audio to group messaging 🗣️
Google reveals Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, and Pixel Watch 2 📱⌚
OpenAI will host its first developer conference on November 6
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OpenAI will hold its inaugural developer conference, OpenAI DevDay, on November 6.
The event will feature a keynote address and breakout sessions led by OpenAI's technical staff, with a focus on previewing new tools and fostering idea exchange.
Expectations for news on GPT-5, OpenAI's next-gen generative AI model, are low, as CEO Sam Altman confirmed it wasn't in development.
However, updates on Global Illumination, an AI design studio acquired by OpenAI, and the release of GPT-4's image understanding capabilities might be on the agenda.
The conference will have both in-person and online components, and registration will be limited to hundreds of developers.
OpenAI's decision to host a developer day is justified by its large developer community, boasting over 2 million users of its generative AI tools.
This event also serves as a marketing opportunity and aligns with OpenAI's pursuit of commercial success.
Despite the success of ChatGPT, the company is under pressure to maintain profitability in a competitive market with rising AI hardware costs.
Reportedly, OpenAI could generate $1 billion in revenue the following year, but it continues to seek innovative strategies in the dynamic AI landscape.
Salesforce announces new AI and automation features for Slack
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Salesforce is set to introduce AI-powered features to Slack, a collaboration platform it acquired two years ago.
The headline feature, Slack AI, will undergo pilot testing in the upcoming winter.
It will integrate generative AI within Slack, generating relevant messages, channels, and summaries based on user prompts. This includes recaps of channel highlights and thread summaries.
Importantly, these capabilities won't utilize customer data for model training or share data among customers, ensuring privacy.
Another addition is the Workflow Builder, enabling users to create automated workflows without the need for coding.
This development will streamline the process for developers to create custom apps on Slack, while also allowing users to easily discover and implement them in their own automations.
Additionally, a new automation hub will centralize templates, existing workflows, and other automation for convenient access.
Furthermore, Slack Lists will be introduced as a work management tool, facilitating task assignments, progress monitoring, and request/approval reviews.
While the workflow features will be part of paid Slack plans, it remains unclear whether there will be an additional charge for the AI tool.
Generative AI: A pragmatic blueprint for data security
Image credit: Pete Linforth from Pixabay
The rise of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI poses new security challenges, as traditional paradigms struggle to prevent unauthorized data access.
Intermediaries, like browser extensions and APIs, are emerging as sources of shadow IT, potentially exposing sensitive data.
To mitigate risks, organizations must understand the boundaries of data access within AI models and prioritize secure training processes.
Privacy concerns escalate when using AI with personal information, demanding compliance with regulations and nuanced data processing.
Vendor, enterprise, and product security approaches must be adapted to effectively manage these new AI-related risks.
Transparency and user empowerment are key to building trust and ensuring responsible AI usage.
Leveraging AI content optimization for improved SEO
Image credit: Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay
AI-driven content optimization enhances websites for search engines, ensuring clarity and relevance. It analyzes user behavior, tailoring content to individual queries.
AI tools offer advanced features like natural language understanding and predictive analytics, resulting in engaging, personalized content. This approach saves time, refines decision-making, and provides valuable data insights.
However, challenges include data dependency, potential costs, and the need for human touch in content creation. Balancing AI and human input is crucial for effective optimization.
AI complements SEO efforts, aiding in understanding user intent, predicting trends, and creating content swiftly. It also offers personalization, and content recommendations, and interprets user queries, ultimately boosting search rankings.
The future of AI in content optimization holds exciting developments. Advanced NLP, hyper-personalization, and voice search optimization will play key roles.
AI will expand to optimize visual content, automate content creation, and enhance distribution strategies.
Ethical AI use, real-time optimization, multilingual adaptation, and content auditing will also shape the landscape.
Adapting to these changes is essential for maintaining a competitive online presence and ensuring future digital success.
Zoom's new 'AI Companion' will catch you up when you're late to meetings
Zoom's AI Companion, an expanded generative artificial intelligence tool, will offer enhanced features at no extra cost for existing Zoom subscribers.
The tool will be integrated across various Zoom services, including Team Chat, Meetings, Phone, Email, and Whiteboard.
It now allows users to quickly catch up if they're late to a meeting and offers post-meeting features like recordings with highlights and auto-generated summaries.
By spring, it will provide real-time feedback on meeting performance and offer coaching on communication skills.
Additional updates include AI summarization for Team Chat, sentence auto-completion, and chat-based meeting scheduling by early 2024.
Zoom emphasizes that AI Companion is opt-in, controlled by the account holder, and assures users their data isn't used to train the AI.
The tool utilizes Zoom's own language models along with Meta's Llama 2, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
This advancement aligns with similar technologies like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard.
Clubhouse is pivoting from live audio to group messaging
Image credit: Dmitry Mashkin on Unsplash
Clubhouse, the once-prominent audio app, is undergoing a significant transformation, shifting its focus from live audio to group messaging.
Instead of large open conversations, the new Clubhouse encourages users to engage in friend-centric voice chats within smaller groups called "chats."
These chats facilitate the exchange of voice messages, akin to private audio messages or voicemails.
The platform aims to foster more intimate and meaningful connections among users, moving away from passive listening.
This shift positions Clubhouse more as a platform for private or semi-private communication, akin to Snapchat, rather than a space where users broadcast to a wide audience like Twitter.
While this move aligns with changing user behavior post-pandemic, it remains uncertain if Clubhouse can regain its peak popularity in 2021.
The company acknowledges the significance of this pivot and approaches it with caution, recognizing the uncertainty of its success.
Google reveals Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, and Pixel Watch 2
Image credit: Google
Google has officially revealed the upcoming Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, along with the Pixel Watch 2, ahead of its hardware launch event on October 4th.
The images and videos showcase a size difference between the two phones, with the Pixel 8 being notably smaller than the 8 Pro.
The standard Pixel 8 is expected to have a 6.17-inch display, making it more compact compared to its predecessor.
Additionally, Google provided a glimpse of the Pixel Watch 2, which maintains a similar design to its previous version and includes a porcelain band to complement the Pixel 8 Pro.
While specific features are not extensively detailed, Google mentions that when paired with a Pixel phone, the watch will offer enhanced personalization, safety features, and health insights.
The teaser also briefly showcases the Pixel Buds, suggesting they will also feature in the upcoming event.
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