https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/hulus-animayhem-activation-san-diego-comic-con/ Heh, I’m a fan. What can I tell you? You know what it’s like when you get into a programme? I mean you can’t blame me, it’s just so… good. The characters. Each episode has drama, tension oh and the humour. You have to admit it’s funny. I mean really funny. And of course … [Read more…]
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/15/technology/artificial-intelligence-models-chat-data.html Getting in isn’t easy. It shouldn’t be. With the challenges – enemies really – surrounding us, we have to be careful. There was the Aunty Turing to start with. I was expecting questions about the canon but, no, they were much weirder than that. I can’t tell you more obviously. Finally there was the … [Read more…]
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jul/15/david-ingraham-best-phone-picture-handball-hangout I don’t hold with this generation of AI snappers. No craft. A photographer sees an arrangement of people and light set to appear and gets ready. She’s imag(in)ing in the shadow of Cartier-Bresson’s decisive moment, the perfect coming together. What makes a real photographer? It’s the eye, the ability to see that picture in … [Read more…]
https://www.ft.com/content/53212d61-1717-456d-b982-afa0dcab0936 All the research tells you that friendships are important. It’s relationships that keep you mentally and physically healthy. Heh, one of my friends told me it slows aging. You do have to put the effort in though. Friendships need investment. Time, thought, commitment even. It’s worth it though. I make a point of meeting … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23794224/sag-aftra-actors-strike-ai-image-rights It was graduation day. The chance to meet the students and their families, watching them turn for a moment from the adults who’d been in class to someone’s son or daughter, uncomfortably introducing “my parents”. They recognised their teacher in the crowd. Stopped for a selfie. Maybe he had made a difference, His particular … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/12/googles-ai-assisted-note-taking-app-gets-limited-launch-as-notebooklm/ She’d read that Jack Kerouac kept a pocket notebook that shaped the poetry he wrote. He always had it with him. Ready to record a thought, collect an observation he could form into his poetry. Walter Benjamin had been a collector too. His Arcades Project had been written on scraps and cards as he … [Read more…]
https://adage.com/article/digital-marketing-ad-tech-news/instagram-threads-first-ad-deal-hulus-futurama-adam-rose/2503846 Look, I don’t care. Yes, I’ve read the research on creative effectiveness. I love Orlando Wood’s stuff. Many’s the dinner party conversation and Cannes party fueled by the ideas. And before you ask, yes I’m all in for climbing WARC and Lions’ ladder but, right now, I just want an ad. I want to … [Read more…]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2023/07/07/how-apple-vision-pro-could-transform-f1-viewing/ My dad says he used to stand: swaying and singing with his mates. He remembered when the terraces went and they had to sit. They often didn’t. You couldn’t sing and wind up the other fans sitting down, he used to say. When he first started taking me to the match I learned quickly: … [Read more…]
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/10/twitter-traffic-sinks-in-wake-of-changes-and-launch-of-rival-platform-threads-elon-musk It wasn’t completely deserted. There were shapes of figures in corners. There were sounds. Perhaps conversations, maybe just breathing. Some signs of life. The space was perfect though. Wide open. Enough room to build whatever they wanted. The infrastructure was old and uncared for but still serviceable. Everything they needed . Above all, it … [Read more…]
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/08/teach-children-survive-ai There were nested schedules. On the route to exams and tests, there were timetables for each term, each week, each lesson, each topic. Separate. Her teacher was on rails, monitored just like she was. Timed, Tested. As robotic as her approved assistant in the desk screen. Both programmed to deliver, achieve. The teacher delivered … [Read more…]