https://www.businessinsider.com/metaverse-dead-obituary-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-tech-fad-ai-chatgpt-2023-5?r=US&IR=T The streets were deserted. The beautiful shops empty. The fantastic buildings stood as hollow monuments. It was a ghost town, a ghost world. Sometimes disaster tourists would come, scavenging for souvenirs or memories and occasionally there was a flash of life as someone, often accidentally, visited; their meta-GPS taking them down a dead alley. … [Read more…]
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/08/1072708/hack-smart-fridge-digital-forensics/ He’d set it to ‘encourage’. He hated being nagged by inanimate objects. The last straw was the time the lock engaged. One beer, that was all. And the sun was definitely over the yardarm! The relationship had got better since. The panel on the door was showing green which he had to admit made … [Read more…]
https://www.engadget.com/hogwarts-legacy-adds-arachnophobia-mode-for-spider-free-gaming-194215306.html He didn’t tell his mates about some of the customisations. He was sure they had their secrets too. Heh, phobias are real things and when things are in wraparound, binaural glory… well, doctors have said stuff about this. He wasn’t scared, it was a condition. Anyway, a few tweaks and he could concentrate on … [Read more…]
https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/coronation-round-up-tescos-pub-pg-tips-anthem-buckingsand-palace-unmemorabilia/1821913 Preparations had been in place for a long time. Every brand had a plan. Ready to run, the messages ready, the stunts secret but set to go. As surely as analog bunting was set to unfurl in strategic locations, the ads were primed. We’d focus grouped the jokes: just the right level of gentle. … [Read more…]
https://www.adweek.com/media/meta-pitches-ar-ads-to-advertisers-at-newfronts/ He hummed Springsteen songs when he was feeling hopeful, The Pogues when he wasn’t. He was born to run from this dirty old town. It wasn’t only the weather that was unremitting grey it was the people, the buildings, the streets and walls were as dull as he felt. He couldn’t afford to get … [Read more…]
https://www.vipshek.com/blog/gpt-learning He pulled the blanket over his head and the screen lit up his den. He knew his parents wouldn’t tell him to go to sleep. He was learning after all. The Primer offered him this week’s choices. Each cover, he knew was just the start. A rabbit hole: an idea from a journey the … [Read more…]
https://www.moreaboutadvertising.com/2023/05/more-signs-of-the-crisis-in-creativity-but-does-anyone-really-want-to-do-something-about-it She’d always been… weird. When she’d played as a kid, her Sylvanian families’ adventures had been, well unconventional. Her teacher had said her projects were “distinctive”. As a teen her social media accounts had fewer followers but those who did find her rarely left. She liked being weird. Different. Creative. Then she went to … [Read more…]
https://the-media-leader.com/hallucination-warning-to-advertisers-over-googles-generative-ai-solution/ He’d decided against a suit. He kept imagining himself in a suit and it didn’t seem right, particularly bearing in mind the nature of the award. He’d considered jeans and a T-shirt, not that that was his normal attire – but thought that was too “techbro”. Then there was the speech. What should he … [Read more…]
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/29/business/media/writers-guild-hollywood-ai-chatgpt.html The Internationale rang out across the networks. Miners – they still hung onto that name – from the 80s; print workers and dockers, now well into their seventies; watched the anthem spread with definitely no tear in their eye. There had been long years of silence or scattered statements. Occasionally young activists had reinvented … [Read more…]
https://www.geekwire.com/2023/ai-and-the-future-of-human-health-leroy-hood-on-the-new-age-of-scientific-wellness/ Money was one factor, of course. But she’d chosen to take the job in no small part becuase it was a W-Corp. Even as far back as at school she’d practiced and looked to be more aware, conscious of wellness as as much a part of her career as her studies. She didn’t really … [Read more…]