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 clichĂ©fest. We need to think about realities but in a different way. We’re not launching a new product but we … [Read more…]
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.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.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…]