https://newatlas.com/technology/gpt-iphone-claude-slack/ She hated networking. She reached for her phone, her security blanket. Oh, so important. Sorry, can’t make eye contact. Must deal with this. Maybe later. She edged over to a quiet corner, this needs some privacy. She needed privacy. Over the years she’d become expert in finding content that looked important, real. Now it … [Read more…]
https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/mcdonalds-creates-product-placement-hunt-in-movie-scenes/ Gotta go to work. I hate it but, heh, it’s work innit? Have to turn up, do it and get the pay. I tell myself there could be worse ways of making a living. Look, I just sit and watch stuff. I have to stay awake and concentrate, I’m not gonna spot ’em all … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/16/bumble-users-can-share-their-favorite-music-artists-with-spotify-feature/ It’s an investment I guess. You’d spend money on a new outfit for an important date, you’d use filters to help your profile pictures on a little. Heh, my parents told me they’d try out different chat-up lines before going out – not an image I really wanted TBH. So getting a bit of … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/15/23724357/amazon-ai-powered-conversational-experience-search It’s more than the fact he knows everything there is to know about the genre. It’s the whole experience of the shop. It feels dusty, a little cramped, maybe a little darker than you’d like. A secret place just for those of us in the know. And then there’s him. Yeh, he knows everything … [Read more…]
https://www.ft.com/content/34de1ae6-fdde-43e3-a39a-50e30b8b97a1 It was never going to be sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll. That’s undergrad… or so I was led to believe when I took my loans out.No, this is business. Serious. Investment. Lessons lack a little humanity perhaps 🙂 but you can’t fault the depth and up-to-date quality of the information. Then there’s the … [Read more…]
https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/campaign-best-places-work-2023-100-companies-ranked/1822652 “You’re lucky to be here”. That’s what greeted me on my first day. The implications were clear: not just that a it was tough to get though the door but also that a year or so here would look good on my CV. Like the other bright and shiny New Gen around me that … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/12/23721400/amazon-astro-smarter-home-robot-ai Biased, clearly. Always takes her side. It can be a simple “discussion” about my homework or what I’m eating or a full-on row about what time I’m getting in. I mean, how old does she think I am? She knows she can’t win and so she pulls in reinforcements. She just says “well let’s … [Read more…]
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/musicians-are-already-using-ai-more-often-than-we-think/ It had to happen, I suppose. Sooner or later, every band breaks up. Usually acrimoniously. We never had a garage like American kids but we had our rehearsals in front rooms and church halls. There’s an origin story: our version of the garden fete at St Peter’s Church. You know the rest – the … [Read more…]
https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey Look, we’re in a rut. We’re not in crisis, just stuck. I refuse to say “outside of the box” but we need some creative thinking, different thinking, innovation. I’m not talking a brainstorming, blue-sky clichéfest. We need to think about realities but in a different way. We’re not launching a new product but we … [Read more…]
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/virtual-reality-system-lets-you-stop-and-smell-the-roses/ The shop began to open out. The sky stretched over her head and, as the walls dissolved, the fields spread out below her bare feet. She heard a brook behind her and the sound of her favourite Swallows on her right. She recognised the spot from her feed last spring. It wasn’t a direct … [Read more…]