LinkedIn Adds to AI Tools

LinkedIn is diving deeper into the AI arena. This week the company unveiled four different announcements, including AI ehanced searching for recruiters and a new chatbot coming to LinkedIn learning. But for business leaders, esp. those in B2B, the announcements you’ll probably care more about include:

• LinkedIn is rolling out AI tools for the Sales Navigator program, aiming to enhance B2B sales lead development. Find out more.

• Its also introducing AI tools to assist with the creation and management of LinkedIn Ad Campaigns,, hopefully saving your marketing department time (and ultimately money). See the full details.

Note that while these updates have reached some customers, most are still being rolled out, and it may be a while before they're widely available.

More AI News This Week

• IBM's New Offering: This week, IBM introduced "Granite," a specialized LLM designed for businesses. It boasts expertise in five domains: academic, code, financial, internet, and legal.

• The Evolution of Phishing: A new wave of AI-generated phishing emails is here, and they're alarmingly sophisticated.

• OpenAI's Hardware Ambitions: Previously, there were whispers about OpenAI delving into hardware. Now, Reuters breaks the news that the company's intend to produce AI chips.

• ChatGPT Picture & Voice: Speaking of ChatGPT, the new multimodal upgrade we told you about last week (image and voice input) is finally rolling out widespread to Plus subscribers. Read the NYTimes’ review. Latest Deepfakes: Catch up here

• Deepfake Hearings: Catch up here.

• AI Watermark Fail: Yeah, they’re about as good as you’d expect.

• AI Outperforms Humans in Research Analysis: Nature goes a bit meta with a piece on how AI surpasses human capabilities in identifying discrepancies in research papers, specifically in images.

Quote of the Week

“We believe, philosophically, that personal agents are going to be a core part of taking AI and making it a practical use case for consumers."

- Ian Morris, CEO of Likewise, the Bill Gates-backed startup that just launched a chatbot for personal entertainment recommendations.

Resource of the Week

Share this Youtube Video with your art teams so they can learn the steps needed to generate video (not just images!) from text.