https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-anxiety-is-on-the-rise-heres-how-to-manage-it/ Thank you for agreeing to meet. As you know, we value our staff here and any problems they are having, well we want to see what we can do. You said in your message that you were feeling ‘anxious’ in your team? I know there have been some changes recently so I can understand … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/30/humanes-ai-pin-debuts-on-the-paris-runway/ He was a great fan of badges. When we found the box there were ones from the Miners’ Strike, anti apartheid, and of course lots of different bands. He used to get into trouble at school for refusing to take them off his blazer. He continued to wear his heart and opinions on his … [Read more…]
https://adage.com/article/opinion/artificial-intelligence-how-brands-will-face-unprecedented-scrutiny-consumers-using-same-tools/2518756 I remember my gran doing it in some street market somewhere. I was little but I remember the guy’s face as he tried in vain to hold the line. He stood no chance as my gran examined whatever she was considering buying, put it down, explained some fact about the stitching or the action … [Read more…]
https://www.engadget.com/researchers-developed-3d-printed-sensors-that-can-record-brain-activity-on-earbuds-150000043.html?src=rss Musicians? They’ve always been a pain. We’re the ones who make the music. Fifth Beatle? Remember that? We know how to turn their inarticulate, often tuneless ideas into hits. And we know what people want to listen to. Egotist rock stars! They’d be nowhere without us. There’s no point showing them the data… they … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/27/metas-augments-place-digital-objects-around-your-physical-space/ When they’d moved in together they called it “merging”. They spent a long time sorting through their digital libraries laughing at the duplicates: films they’d both loved and now were slightly embarrassed about; books they admitted they’d never read. They particularly enjoyed merging their digital spaces, playing with the new shared avatars and objects. … [Read more…]
https://www.marketing-interactive.com/louis-vuitton-launches-discord-server-with-exclusive-content-for-nft-holders My family has worked for the company for generations. I think my great grandfather had some connection to the original founder but I have photos of my grandad and my mother working here. I still have the scissors my grandad used and my mum has only just stopped doing the intricate stitching. Even if … [Read more…]
https://thenextweb.com/news/bloom-launches-erotic-ai-roleplaying-chatbots They obviously thought it was so funny. It was a full-on formal tea party. Best crockery. Tablecloth. My mum had even dug gran’s old cakestand out. I swear if my dad had a tie, he’d have worn it. It was like a scene from a nostalgic sitcom. It should have been in black and … [Read more…]
https://www.wired.com/story/corporate-surveillance-train-ai Obviously we’re irreplaceable. Goes without saying that the business needs us. We brought the systems in. We’ve rolled them out across the company and we’re the ones who decided what to measure. The whole point has been to see where we can reconfigure, what we can do differently, who we can… “reengineer”. We know … [Read more…]
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/22/nfts-worthless-price The best ones are in seaside towns, occasionally there are good ones in run-down former market towns but no, seaside is where you should go. You can spend all day going from one to another. And of course when you do pick something up for a few quid, heh, you’re helping a charity. They’re … [Read more…]
https://thenextweb.com/news/virtual-influencers-ai-generated-online I didn’t expect it. I hoped of course but I never thought it would happen. I remember the moment the number of followers hit the magic number and then the moment when the first brand reached out to my “manager”. They liked the retro Max Headroom vibe. They thought too many virts fell into … [Read more…]