Cortex – Giving Social Media a Brain
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It’s hard to keep track of all the various tech start-ups
gaining notoriety across the planet at the moment. New ideas for apps and
social media components are flaring up everywhere, from the sublime to the
ridiculous.Cortex though, an initiative started up by Boston-based team
Pandemic Labs, this one demands your attention.
The business world is changing rapidly with the advent of
social media and it is becoming imperative that companies and clients alike
understand it. Often that can be difficult, with many people still being rooted
in the old ways, unwilling to move forward or just unsure how. That’s where
Cortex comes in; it gives your social media toolbox a brain of its very own.
Using state of the art AI technology, Cortex learns about the
needs and targets of the social media arm of whatever brand or firm you affix
it to and then builds a set of guidelines for the company to follow. The
results are based on all kinds of information about user engagement, web
traffic and SEO. It’s not 100% accurate any more than you can predict the
weather, but insight-based analytics are already paramount to digital marketing
and Cortex provides a method of compiling them that bypasses the need to have
one or several human brains retaining all that crucial information.
When you start throwing the term ‘AI’ around, things can get
a little bit unsettling. Steven Hawking recently warned that the advent of AI
might lead to the demise of mankind, as we edge perilously closer to creating a
form of intelligence that actually exceeds our own. Cortex won’t be it, I can
tell you that for free, all it really does in essence is remove an obstacle,
compiling and contextualising analytical information is busy-work, it’s not
difficult but it’s highly time consuming, Cortex can do it faster and more
easily than people can.
According to Pandemic Labs, Cortex could save companies
around 7 hours per user per week.
Plenty of analytic platforms already exist to help companies
with this sort of thing, but none of them are fuelled by anything as advanced
as AI. “They have no incentive to simplify social media marketing” Founder Matt
Peters said in a press release, “Due to Cortex’s AI, our customers know that
competitors will be watched, content will be promoted, and posts will be
executed optimally across their social platforms - all automatically.”
The start-up already has $500,000 worth of financial backing
behind it and several heavyweight investors, and now that they’ve started
speaking to the press, they can likely expect even more capital to start
rolling in. This could very well revolutionise the way digital marketing works.
Callum Davies
Callum is a film school graduate who is now making a name for himself as a journalist and content writer. His vices include flat whites and 90s hip-hop. Follow him @CallumAtSMF
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