In today’s issue:

1. Fortune 500 Fears of AI - who is most scared

2. SearchGPT - how different can it really be from ChatGPT? Turns out : a lot.

3. Reducing Salesforce to nearly zero: You thought R1 was good; R2 is already here - doubling the productivity

4. News, Need-to-know, and Stats:

   • Billion dollar chip acquisition changes the AI battlefield

   • Walmart claims 100x impact from GenAI

   • OpenAI takes a role in US Politics

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Fortune 500 Fears of AI - some are more scared than others

The emergence of new technologies often creates fear — some because they are worried about their jobs; others because of competition; and yet others for reasons as wide as the sky.

But AI is different - because its impact is happening so fast and in so many different places. Plus there are more true dangers with AI than with most technologies.

Fortune 500 companies might be the biggest, mightiest companies; but in most cases, they’re the slowest to adopt. Yet there are so many people who see the value in AI, that in Fortune 500 companies, it is being adopted quickly — and mostly before the companies can create their own policies and strategies.

According to AI Tool Report, media and entertainment companies are the most fearful with 91% expressing concern. That’s pretty easy to understand. Generative AI could provide results that soon will become very good alternatives to the products they make; so the whole industry is under attack.

The group that rates number 2 in fear according to the report, though, may surprise you — it’s software and technology companies, with about 86% worried about the impact.

Read more in AI Tools Report

SearchGPT - our first tests

It was only a matter of time before OpenAI would set its sights on Google to disrupt the lucrative search market. And it didn’t take very long. The company has been rolling out SearchGPT over the past month to selected of their paying customers.

I finally got my chance to start using SearchGPT and do my first tests; and my conclusion — even if you have both SearchGPT and ChatGPT, your choice of tool will affect your results.

In my initial tests, I used prompts that were similar for each engine. In most cases, ChatGPT-4o (the latest paid version of ChatGPT) gave me good results that were interesting. But the same prompts in SearchGPT gave me results that were usable — a subtle but important distinction.

In one test that illustrates the differences, I used a series of 3 questions to learn how to fly standby on a particular airline. SearchGPT gave me solid answers - each one descriptive and without hallucinations (that is, they were accurate — which is sometimes a challenge for GenAI).

Those same questions with ChatGPT gave me actionable results — how I should create a strategy to take standby flights. Which flights I should consider. And which were most likely to give me the best results. It also was more clear about sources, and gave me a list that I could use to learn more.

SearchGPT out-Googled Google.

Google is not sitting idle, of course. If you do similar searches using the world’s favorite search engine, you’ll now get AI-generated summaries and sources that you can use to learn more.

It’s chaning so fast, if you ask me again next month, my answers may differ. Glad I can do the testing for you and help guide you.

Reducing Salesforce to nearly zero

Last month I described how Confirmed Connect — an add-in for Microsoft Outlook 365 would save you hours by getting your inbound email into Salesforce in a few clicks in just a few minutes

Now, a new version of Confirmed Connect will save you the same kind of time with the email you send out too. So you get double the productivity.

The old ways — using the clunky Salesforce outlook add-in or ‘Email to salesforce’ are not as productive, and the results are not as good as Confirmed Connect’s. Plus Email to salesforce is so difficult to set up that most users don’t even do it.

Just like the original release I described last month, Confirmed Connect takes one-minute to install; five-minutes to set up. The process is the same too…

By clicking on each email in your folder, you are putting it into a queue. When you have selected all the items you want, click one button to put them into the right records in Salesforce. If the record doesn’t exist, Confirmed Connect will tell you — and since the product uses color coding so well, you see it at a glance.

If you have a team of AT LEAST 10 people who can benefit from reducing the time and effort of keeping Salesforce up-to-date, schedule a personalized demo.

Schedule like a Road Warrior; Manage your day like a Time Titan!

Confirmed helps you reclaim that time by offering you a better way to set up your meetings on the road — using A.I., of course.

Bonus Productivity Tip: Microsoft Quick Steps

• The AI chip war ramps up with a billion dollar chip acquisition

• Walmart claims 100x impact from GenAI

• OpenAI takes a role in US Politics - blocks GenAI propaganda

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