https://arstechnica.com/?p=1965074 She had to take breaks. She no longer felt physically dizzy but there was no doubt it was hard work. Keeping track of the paragraphs in motion, deciding where to place a particular phrase, experimenting with the subtleties of placement: depth writing was hard. But it was important, she thought. As she moved a … [Read more…]
https://www.ft.com/content/61f22acc-d359-441e-8c3d-875fcc4f95b2 She made a good living being human. A very good living. She used to work for families, the paranoid ones or the refusers. But they couldn’t afford her now. She occasionally did a pro bono scan but mostly it was well-paid corporate gigs. Bearing in mind the toll it took on her, she thought … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/31/23852845/aqara-matter-enabled-ceiling-light It was going well. The preparations had been worth it. Friends had said this was the crucial date so they’d pulled the stops out. Money no expense. They’d paid for the best playlist recommendations. They’d found “someone” to curate the perfect menu based on Jo’s data and social history. They weren’t looking forward to … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/29/general-motors-to-use-google-ai-chatbot-for-its-onstar-service/ “I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that.” I love starting off with that. Good job his name is Dave but I think the line would still work even if he wasn’t. He laughed the first time but now just tenses a little. I can tell by the way he grows the steering wheel. I … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/28/creators-guild-america-influencer-labor-rights-nonprofit/ I like that we call ourselves a “Guild”. Wikipedia defines it as an “association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade”. Creativity and responsibility together. It feels like a Rembrandt painting. Coats of Arms. So much more tradition and, well creativity, than “union”. Call me “old fashioned” but I don’t … [Read more…]
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/aug/27/chatgpt-ai-disadvantaged-college-applicants-affirmative-action Of course you don’t need us. Download it yourself, give it a starting point and set it off… Let it write your application and sit back and wait for the offers to come in. So why pay us? Well the systems reading your application are Intelligent too. They read closely. Checking the language and … [Read more…]
https://spectrum.ieee.org/weird-ai I’ve just had my PRA. I mean seriously? “Performance review”! Look at the figures… Output, up. Productivity, up. Even creativity, up. That’s performance. But no, apparently there are “issues”, attitude issues. So I’m assertive. I say it like it is. Look at anything I’ve said and tell me it’s wrong! Go on! They know … [Read more…]
https://www.moreaboutadvertising.com/2023/08/maa-ad-of-the-week-ikeas-rescue-bid-for-oxford-circus My grandad was a miner. Thatcher’s enemy within. Years after the strike he took me around a theme park that had opened at his old pit. He pointed out the mistakes and told me stories. He laughed as he remembered but there was a melancholy, an anger there. I thought of that day as … [Read more…]
https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-mugshot-fulton-county-georgia-1850772122 It wasn’t going to be easy. Off course he wasn’t going to be first (or even in the first wave) so he was going to have to be the best. His wouldn’t be ‘perfect’, the sorry of faultless, seamless synth that makes you double take. His would have to be the funniest, the sharpest… … [Read more…]
https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/the-fabricant-launches-digital-clothing-collection-featuring-ar-fashions/ The queue was orderly. Uniform suits a shade somewhere between black and silver. The bouncer raised his screen lazily, the augmented search the least interesting part of his job. The underage girls giggled, telling their friends how their parents had waved them off after checking their hem and neckline, failing to see. Some were … [Read more…]