Facebook is creating an AI assistant for Minecraft It’s placements time. We’ve sat working through databases, articles, videos, images. We’re pretty damn intelligent but narrow. Hence the placement. If I’m going to expand my intelligence, I need a placement with humans. I’ve worked with their language, pictures, voices and searches, bio-data and emotion-data and everything …
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Dispatch from an advertising future #11
Concern about plastics in Singapore an opportunity for brands: Ipsos We’re all caught up in the Great Purpose-rush. At B-cause (TM) we help you find that new cause. We work with oil, tobacco, agriculture and pharma corporations to identify new opportunities for you. If the issue isn’t big enough for you, we work with corporations …
Dispatch from an advertising future #10
Wellness festival set to help the digital industry unplug Here at Smile we are committed to your wellness. Our Smile and Unplug (™) programme added mindfulness sounds to your workpod and a wellness score to the Smile Performance Review. And now your pod’s YourFaceOurFace (™) camera will alert you to early signs of stress and …
Dispatch from an advertising future #9
T-Mobile is handing out hot spots to lure customers Call me old-fashioned, but I think our kids should be protected inside school and out. We wouldn’t accept drug dealers hanging around the school gates offering amphetamines, why should we accept people pushing Speed(™)? “Go on, take it. All the other kids are doing it. You …
Dispatch from an advertising future #8
Digiday Research: What marketers are moving in-house in 5 charts You want control and creativity. You want the benefits of in-house but also the best outside thinking. Now you don’t have to make a choice. With In’nOut (™) you can have the best of both worlds. In-house AIs build on-brand campaigns to order. Control? Certainly, …
Dispatch from an advertising future #7
Ads We Like: Clio Awards 60th anniversary promo features ad icons and pioneers in massive painting We’re 70 this year. To celebrate, we’re unveiling a VR homage to those pioneers of advertising who made our industry the beacon of efficiency and effectiveness it is today. The influencers and memes; the bots that brought real emotion …