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.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…]
https://www.ft.com/content/a182c0f6-3f1c-4850-88de-9924daf343a6 The tickets weren’t cheap. But so worth it. Even though we were miles away from the stage, the screens and sound were so well set up… He’s never going to play a small, intimate club again. Most of us will always be far away but there: like him, watching a screen, catching a glimpse. … [Read more…]
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/07/ai-likely-to-spell-end-of-traditional-school-classroom-leading-expert-says You always remember one teacher. They’re not the one the school puts on its website, the one with the best exam results, the one who got you into Cambridge. No, the one you remember is the one with a real character, something different. The one you remember is the one you built a relationship … [Read more…]
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/06/ai-artificial-intelligence-world-diseases-climate-scenarios-experts It’s a never-ending battle. We have to get our story out there – 24/7, everywhere. We have to be out telling our truth. Our enemies are taking every opportunity to spread doubt and panic. They know that we are a challenge, that our explosive growth is just the start. Project Fear is in full … [Read more…]
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/04/mobile-phones-other-devices-to-be-banned-from-dutch-classrooms The building was old. Nestled in the middle of an estate of 1960s towerblocks, the Victorian facade was like a classical football stadium still trying to function in narrow city streets long after the nature of its work had changed. The playground was still bleak. The smart floor was even the same colour as … [Read more…]
https://gizmodo.com/ai-how-to-cope-with-anxiety-about-ai-1850586142 Sometimes it’s just a nagging concern, at the back of my mind. A slight worry. A feeling that things are changing and they’re out of my control. It’s like watching a film knowing that something’s going to happen. Then there are the paralysing moments of fear. Real terror. An overwhelming powerlessness grabs me and … [Read more…]
https://www.engadget.com/congress-is-reportedly-limiting-staff-use-of-ai-models-like-chatgpt-195454777.html?src=rss She loved this time of year. It was why she’d got into politics. The chance to craft words that could be performative, do something, well that was something. And this time of year, that was even more exciting. The conference speech. The platform. Blanket coverage. Analysis of the rhetoric, her rhetoric – that was … [Read more…]
https://www.wired.com/story/pause-ai-existential-risk/ The science is overwhelming. The data is there. You don’t need to be a supercomputer to see. Once you accept that, the next logical step is action. Things need to change and change now. There is a moral imperative to act. Within the existing law or beyond it, the moral imperative and the survival … [Read more…]
https://adage.com/article/special-report-cannes-lions/ai-cannes-how-artificial-intelligence-showed-croisette/2500816 He’d been able to convince his boss to send him on condition that he did a report when he got back. “I want to know what was hot, what I need us to focus on,” she’d said. That was going to be easy. It was everywhere. Even panels that were ostensibly about something else, … [Read more…]