Generative A.I. Made All My Decisions for a Week. Here’s What Happened.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/01/technology/generative-ai-decisions-experiment.html I Made All My Decisions for a Week. Here’s What Happened. Join us online for a new series where our correspondence lives for a week without assistance. In the first episode we see Dave’s house being fitted of all AI technology, everything he normally uses day-to-day. Watch Dave’s reaction when he walks back into … [Read more…]

EXCLUSIVE: Perplexity Is Quietly Building an AI-Powered Shopping Experience, Taking On Amazon

https://www.adweek.com/commerce/perplexity-ai-powered-shopping/ She liked to have it set on what she called “Mate”. That wasn’t the setting but if she got the “familiarity” slider and the “social inputs” right she could do a party good impression of Sam. She’d paid the extra so she could cook the voice. She’d tried the “Expert” settings and it was … [Read more…]

Gen Z and nostalgia tech—why dumb technology is on the rise

https://adage.com/article/opinion/gen-z-and-nostalgia-tech-why-dumb-technology-rise/2589341 She imagined the AIs in a huddle trying to figure out what to do. She liked the image of annoyed algorithms desperately searching their massive brains for a solution. She smiled as she worked on another idea. She still had the AIs approach her to try and get her to sign for the latest … [Read more…]

Leaked Training Shows How Doctors in New York’s Biggest Hospital System Are Using AI

https://www.404media.co/northwell-health-ai-hub-tool-chatgpt-doctors/ Choosing a hospital wasn’t easy. She’s remembered being a child taken to the local hospital… because it was local and free of course. Now you had to pay but there was also the pressure of picking your hospital. Your AI could help of course, crunching the live data and social reviews but it was … [Read more…]

Two More LA Times Editorial Writers Quit Over ‘Chickens—’ Owner’s Block of Harris Endorsement

https://www.adweek.com/morning-media-newsfeed/two-more-la-times-editorial-writers-quit-over-chickens-owners-block-of-harris-endorsement/ I’m just a hack. You know, those humans the company keeps around so the office doesn’t feel like a post apocalyptic Marie Celeste. So it’s above my pay grade. Just keep prompting and checking the outputs. Leave strategy for the 4th floor. But… my silicon colleagues might not get angry but I do. I … [Read more…]

“Best instant camera on Earth” shows style evolution from its Cold War roots

https://newatlas.com/photography/lomography-wide-glass-instant/ Some cal it “retro”. We prefer to call it “real”. Nostalgic definitely, but real. We founded the company because we were sick of the slick, characterless “content” that is all-too-easy to churn out with our devices. We were frustrated that people were just pressing a button and posting with no thought. Throwing stuff out … [Read more…]

Mentoring is the sea that raises all our boats

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/mentoring-sea-raises-boats/1893316 I was lucky. Most companies don’t have pipeline programmes at all. They still wait for the last few universities to deliver recruits they can turn into talent. Here they went looking for… well me. They train me in what they want and need and that can change week by week as the algorithms identify … [Read more…]

Google’s DeepMind is building an AI to keep us from hating each other

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/googles-deepmind-is-building-an-ai-to-keep-us-from-hating-each-other/ The floor used to be… lively, you could call it. Noisy certainly. “Spirited discussions” would be one way of describing an average afternoon. It wasn’t surprising really. There were egos of course but also firmly held beliefs and passions. People were invested in their work and fought for it. They deeply believed they were … [Read more…]

Open access to Google’s AI text watermarking tool may help advertisers win audience trust

https://www.thedrum.com/news/2024/10/23/expanded-access-google-s-synthid-text-watermarking-tool-may-help-advertisers-win There was something about a letter, a postcard. It just felt different. Partly of course it was the fact he’d had to find a way to get it through her door. Her parents told her about the days of “post” but that was long ago. Now he had to deliver it himself. Secretly. The … [Read more…]

Microsoft rolls out AI agents to help businesses with everyday tasks

https://www.marketing-interactive.com/microsoft-ai-agents-businesses-everyday-tasks I’m the one who organises the card and the collection. If it’s for a human obviously. I don’t think our AI colleagues would want a card and a cake. Then again, maybe I should ask them… And I’m the one that makes sure we don’t miss a birthday or a wedding. Of course there … [Read more…]