https://adage.com/article/opinion/veteran-ccos-why-chief-creatives-over-50-bring-invaluable-wisdom-agencies/2519546 We simply can’t compete. There is a talent war out there and that talent doesn’t want… well, us! We’re not the sexy, young agency with the groovy name, the right sort of awards on the shelves and a website that showcases the latest tech it uses. We’re an ad agency. We have the clients … [Read more…]
https://www.marketing-interactive.com/reimagining-storytelling-in-the-age-of-ai She wrote in the same café every day. It was cheap, warm and the ritual appealed to her. She sat at the same table and laid out her notes the same way, each morning. She tried not to think about herself as “an author” or her stories getting published. She just wanted to take … [Read more…]
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-anxiety-is-on-the-rise-heres-how-to-manage-it/ Thank you for agreeing to meet. As you know, we value our staff here and any problems they are having, well we want to see what we can do. You said in your message that you were feeling ‘anxious’ in your team? I know there have been some changes recently so I can understand … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/30/humanes-ai-pin-debuts-on-the-paris-runway/ He was a great fan of badges. When we found the box there were ones from the Miners’ Strike, anti apartheid, and of course lots of different bands. He used to get into trouble at school for refusing to take them off his blazer. He continued to wear his heart and opinions on his … [Read more…]
https://adage.com/article/opinion/artificial-intelligence-how-brands-will-face-unprecedented-scrutiny-consumers-using-same-tools/2518756 I remember my gran doing it in some street market somewhere. I was little but I remember the guy’s face as he tried in vain to hold the line. He stood no chance as my gran examined whatever she was considering buying, put it down, explained some fact about the stitching or the action … [Read more…]
https://www.engadget.com/researchers-developed-3d-printed-sensors-that-can-record-brain-activity-on-earbuds-150000043.html?src=rss Musicians? They’ve always been a pain. We’re the ones who make the music. Fifth Beatle? Remember that? We know how to turn their inarticulate, often tuneless ideas into hits. And we know what people want to listen to. Egotist rock stars! They’d be nowhere without us. There’s no point showing them the data… they … [Read more…]
https://thenextweb.com/news/bloom-launches-erotic-ai-roleplaying-chatbots They obviously thought it was so funny. It was a full-on formal tea party. Best crockery. Tablecloth. My mum had even dug gran’s old cakestand out. I swear if my dad had a tie, he’d have worn it. It was like a scene from a nostalgic sitcom. It should have been in black and … [Read more…]
https://www.wired.com/story/corporate-surveillance-train-ai Obviously we’re irreplaceable. Goes without saying that the business needs us. We brought the systems in. We’ve rolled them out across the company and we’re the ones who decided what to measure. The whole point has been to see where we can reconfigure, what we can do differently, who we can… “reengineer”. We know … [Read more…]
https://thenextweb.com/news/virtual-influencers-ai-generated-online I didn’t expect it. I hoped of course but I never thought it would happen. I remember the moment the number of followers hit the magic number and then the moment when the first brand reached out to my “manager”. They liked the retro Max Headroom vibe. They thought too many virts fell into … [Read more…]
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/18/instead-of-fine-tuning-an-llm-as-a-first-approach-try-prompt-architecting-instead/ I hate Tuesday. Wednesday, you’re half way and then Thursday and Friday, it’s downhill. Monday? Hey, deal with it. But Tuesday… and then they put a double period first thing. Look, I have one language. I can write and read it good (I’m kidding).I don’t need to learn another. Sitting in the lab talking … [Read more…]