Generative Media Mania: Shopify's Sidekick, SDXL Image Gen, and Runway's Image to Video

In this week's Artificially Intelligent Marketing, we cover:

• Shopify launches Sidekick, an AI-powered support agent that can answer business questions and suggest actions based on a user's Shopify data.

• Wix releases an AI website builder to help users build high quality websites from text prompts.

• Major US AI companies like Google, OpenAI and Microsoft agree to manage risks of AI by ensuring transparency, fairness, safety, human control, and privacy.

• Elon Musk launches new company X with talent from OpenAI and Google, aiming to create "good AGI".

• Apple is reportedly developing its own AI chatbot "AppleGPT" to compete with OpenAI and Google.

• Writers using ChatGPT took 40% less time and produced 18% higher quality work according to a study in Science.

• Mayo Clinic is using Google's MedPalm2 AI chatbot for hospital training, performing comparably to doctors.

• Stability AI releases image generation model SDXL 1.0 to rival Midjourney, with 10.1 billion parameters.

• Rewind launches a personal AI iPhone app to record and search users' digital interactions using GPT-4.

• Amazon announces Agents for Bedrock to let companies build conversational agents accessing proprietary data.

• Cohere unveils Coral, an enterprise knowledge assistant chatbot connecting to company data sources.

• Cybercriminals launch FraudGPT, an AI tool for malicious coding and phishing on the dark web.

• Eleven Labs releases new synthetic voices with accents and delivery styles for generative audio.

• Runway launchedsvideo generation from images, creating animations from Midjourney and other image outputs. The results are impressive.

• Stability AI open sourced large language models FreeWilly 1 and 2, outperforming GPT-3 and even GPT-4 in some cases.

• Martin gives us an update from the AI Marketing conference MAICON