https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/16/1005284/openai-ai-gpt-2-generates-images/ Scamp (™): We’ll finish that for you. Times are tough. We’re all trying to make best use of the resources we have. We’d all love to have AI that is as creative as our human teams, but we’re not there yet. Here at Scamp (™), we don’t pretend our systems can be as creative …
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Micro-speculations w/c 13/7/20
He missed the fussball table, the free foot massages… the start-up vibe. As he opened another “start (up) your day (TM) innovation-food” package with its cheery message from the founder, he sighed and grabbed a donut.https://www.warc.com/newsandopinion/news/a-new-era-in-functional-foods/43850 He was nostalgic so he dialed up the ‘wonkey wheel’ as the display reminded him of his 5:2 day. …
Dispatch from an advertising future #65
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/marketers-learn-anything-from-return-qr-code-jerry-daykin They had always been “anti-chippers”. She still remembered the puzzled look on the midwife’s face when she’d refused the “simple procedure”… and the corporate goody bag. It had made parenting a little more difficult. Tracking the bio data and of course location, but it was the principle. It was her child’s body. But since …
Micro-speculations w/c 6/7/20
He left his avatar by the water cooler: conversation set to “football”, style on “witty”. He left the dining room table and went to the kitchen. When he got back he checked the “overheard” and added the fragments to his Office Graph. A new link lit up. https://digiday.com/marketing/bringing-serendipity-back-to-the-office/ He looked deep into it. It was …
Dispatch from an advertising future #64
https://singularityhub.com/2020/07/01/a-highway-to-smell-how-scientists-used-light-to-incept-smell-in-mice/ She was being good. Waiting in line. Moving from one pavement sticker to another. The line was moving slowly but the masked and gloved doorman was letting people in, gradually. She was on her phone of course, swiping through posts, adding data points to her profile as she waited. The shop windows played cheery …
Micro-speculations: w/c 29/6/20
The flaneur walked behind his turtle, which glitched as they passed the sensor. The algorithms in the pavement ran and reran the data looking for patterns. The sensors looked for the fault. https://www.thedrum.com/news/2020/06/30/will-our-cities-be-smarter-after-lockdown It was the sound of summer. The ‘Mister Offer Jingle’ sounded around the streets, bringing people excitedly out of their houses… “I …