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The Man of Your Dreams: For $300, Replika sells an AI companion who will never die, argue, or cheat — until his algorithm is updated.

March 11, 2023 by What if..?

https://www.thecut.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-replika-boyfriend.html We’d been together since college. The college had a matchmaking thing. you put in your skills and what you wanted in your partner and heh presto, you were matched. And it was good. A good match. He isn’t perfect but heh we’re a good fit. Partners. We’ve been together for a couple of years … [Read more…]

Posted in: speculations Tagged: artificial intelligence, creativity, future of work

Researchers Use AI to Generate Images Based on People’s Brain Activity

March 8, 2023 by What if..?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxje8n/researchers-use-ai-to-generate-images-based-on-peoples-brain-activity?utm_source=tldrnewsletter Yes we must have been a pain to work with. We did have a sense of superiority, sometimes an attitude. We could be maybe a little childish. We were a tightly knit group of creatively motivated men (and women). Sometimes we were a law unto ourselves. In our ‘studios’ we played and preened but … [Read more…]

Posted in: speculations Tagged: artificial intelligence, creativity, future of work

Researchers Use AI to Generate Images Based on People’s Brain Activity

March 8, 2023 by What if..?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxje8n/researchers-use-ai-to-generate-images-based-on-peoples-brain-activity?utm_source=tldrnewsletter Yes we must have been a pain to work with. We did have a sense of superiority, sometimes an attitude. We could be maybe a little childish. We were a tightly knit group of creatively motivated men (and women). Sometimes we were a law unto ourselves. In our ‘studios’ we played and preened but … [Read more…]

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Prog.ai wants to help recruiters find technical talent by inferring skills from GitHub code

March 5, 2023 by What if..?

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/03/prog-ai-wants-to-help-recruiters-find-technical-talent-by-inferring-skills-from-github-code/ The portfolio School was worth it. My degree was a great foundation but I wasn’t going to get a job without a Book and one that was optimised right. If you look at my Book you see ads: art direction, copy, inisghts. But you’re not the one doing the recruiting are you? The School … [Read more…]

Posted in: speculations Tagged: artificial intelligence, creativity, education

Asda dispels food panic with some well-placed humour

March 4, 2023 by What if..?

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/pick-week-asda-dispels-food-panic-well-placed-humour/1815014 She’d always wanted to be on the Foreign Desk. Big stories, important events, world-shaking news. Hard-bitten hacks who’ve covered every war, famine, crisis and coup. Battle scarred but determined to be there, cover everything. In her mind she heard old-fashioned phones ringing, fax machines churning out the latest. She saw them ripping, reading and … [Read more…]

Posted in: speculations Tagged: creativity, future of work, journalism, news

When AI Handles the What, Your Team Can Focus on the Why

March 2, 2023 by What if..?

https://www.adweek.com/agencies/when-ai-handles-the-what-your-team-can-focus-on-the-why/ Gizza job. Go on, gizza job. I can do that. Here I am, in the metaphorical corner with my partner while over there, they’re doing the sexy, groovy stuff. The deep, meaningful stuff. They’re focusing on the Big picture. developing the Big business ideas and then they pass them on to us to make … [Read more…]

Posted in: speculations Tagged: artificial intelligence, creativity, future of work

On the internet, nobody knows you’re a human

February 27, 2023 by What if..?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/24/23608961/tiktok-creator-bot-accusation-prove-theyre-human It’s competitive out there. Obviously no-one cares about ‘qualifications’ any more. You’d think that would save you money but do you know how much it costs to keep a profile going, let alone growing? And when you’re competing against creators with limitless energy, time and resources… well it’s a full-time job, without the pay. … [Read more…]

Posted in: speculations Tagged: artificial intelligence, creativity, future of work

Science fiction publishers are being flooded with AI-generated stories

February 22, 2023 by What if..?

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/21/clarkesworld-ai-generated-submissions/ Curating took work. He knew he had to do it. If he was going to get the job he wanted, he needed to tend his profile. He knew the theory – the power of networking, the need to engage, comment, connect. He knew this all took work. He’d sat through the workshop. He knew … [Read more…]

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Roblox wants to let people build virtual worlds just by typing

February 18, 2023 by What if..?

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/17/roblox-studio-generative-ai/ He loved poetry. No, that’s not quite right, he loved words. He loved what they could do, the effects they had but, more importantly, the pictures they painted. Some of them may have been a bit er… right wing, but he loved the Imagists and their manifesto pledge to “render particulars exactly”. He loved … [Read more…]

Posted in: speculations Tagged: artificial intelligence, creativity, gaming, language

BuzzFeed launches Infinity Quizzes, creating personalized stories powered by OpenAI

February 15, 2023 by What if..?

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/14/buzzfeed-launches-infinity-quizzes-creating-personalized-stories-powered-by-openai “Alice! Tea’s ready”… “Alice, it’s getting cold”… “Alice!” She tuned them out. “Involved” was too small a word for it. She was deep, deep in the story. Her story. Just her’s. Written for her, personally. “Alice, come down now please”… Just a little bit more. Just a couple. more minutes. She couldn’t leave it … [Read more…]

Posted in: speculations Tagged: artificial intelligence, creativity, narrative
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