Microsoft 365 ‘Copilot’ uses AI to automate everyday tasks in multiple apps

https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-365-copilot-uses-ai-to-automate-everyday-tasks-in-multiple-apps-151133434.html?src=rss&guccounter=1 It was just there. A modern-day paperclip conspiracy. Not just for scientists with dodgy records but now students desperate to get a job. It beckoned. So easy: accept and it’s finished. She’d paid the fees, attended all the classes. She deserved the qualification and was showing initiative – practice-research,… Read the rest

Outdoor screen fitted with microphones so AI can ‘hear’ sirens in anti-knife crime campaign

https://the-media-leader.com/outdoor-screen-fitted-with-microphones-so-ai-can-hear-sirens-in-anti-knife-campaign/ They left the pub in silence. The resentment was brewing but the argument could wait. They didn’t need everyone hearing or seeing. There’d been a match on so crowds of fans were pouring out, swaying and singing. The billboards lit up in response, joining in the chant: karaoke and… Read the rest

Why ChatGPT Can’t Save Marketing—or Marketers

https://adage.com/article/fletcher-marketing/why-chatgpt-cant-save-marketing-or-marketers/2479366 I know some people think of me as a bit dull. I’m always the one who says: “maybe not” or “that can’t really be done…” I think of it as managing exceptions, being the grown up in the room, the boy who calls out the emperor. Some just see… Read the rest

AlphaGo pushed human Go players to become more creative

https://www.engadget.com/alphago-pushed-human-go-players-to-become-more-creative-231703950.html They’re not easy to manage, sorry “work with”. We’re supposed to be working with them – combining our different skills, complementing each other. When the panic of the AI bubble in 2023 calmed down and we all realised AI was here to stay, the new wisdom was that the… Read the rest

Using AI to turn the Web into a database

https://theaimaze.com/p/using-ai-to-turn-the-web-into-a-database?utm_source=tldrai I got into this job because I was curious about people. Advertising is about people, understanding them, empathising with them, talking with them. I remember a tutor telling the class that if we wanted to make creative stuff for ourselves, there were very good fine art classes elsewhere in… Read the rest

The Man of Your Dreams: For $300, Replika sells an AI companion who will never die, argue, or cheat — until his algorithm is updated.

https://www.thecut.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-replika-boyfriend.html We’d been together since college. The college had a matchmaking thing. you put in your skills and what you wanted in your partner and heh presto, you were matched. And it was good. A good match. He isn’t perfect but heh we’re a good fit. Partners. We’ve been together… Read the rest

Does R3’s new holding company ‘family tree’ show that some family planning is in order?

https://www.moreaboutadvertising.com/2023/03/does-r3s-new-holding-company-family-tree-show-that-some-family-planning-is-in-order His mum sometimes asked him what his company did. At the start she’d understood, but as it grew, she’d lost track: “something with computers,” she told her friends now. He thought of this as he watched the feed. He thought of the system as like a bookmaker, spotting the… Read the rest

Researchers Use AI to Generate Images Based on People’s Brain Activity

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxje8n/researchers-use-ai-to-generate-images-based-on-peoples-brain-activity?utm_source=tldrnewsletter Yes we must have been a pain to work with. We did have a sense of superiority, sometimes an attitude. We could be maybe a little childish. We were a tightly knit group of creatively motivated men (and women). Sometimes we were a law unto ourselves. In our ‘studios’… Read the rest