https://www.adweek.com/digital/facebook-to-lease-all-730000-square-feet-of-office-space-in-the-farley-building/ I’m old enough to remember long lunches and longer nights of client ‘entertainment’. I remember Christmas parties and summer picnics on my island. Our business has changed. Since we moved from headsets to glasses, we’ve had a home on our network. We’ve delivered work and we’ve entertained clients thanks to our head of Account …
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Dispatch from an advertising futures #69
https://scitechdaily.com/mit-dream-research-interacts-directly-with-an-individuals-dreaming-brain-and-manipulates-the-content/ Ever since the ban, we’ve asked to be treated as creatives. Artists, authors, filmmakers have all been allowed in. We’ve not. We presented our award-winning work; research that showed people loved our content,showed our cultural impact. We made a strong case that we were a Creative Industry. But still the ban. No commercial dream …
Dispatch from an advertising future #68
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/24/1005602/ai-hiring-promises-bias-free-job-hopping-prediction/ She couldn’t afford a job hacker. But she knew she couldn’t afford not to hire one. AIs had got better and ‘employability coaches’ that helped you steer your answers, no longer cut it. Advice on how to avoid appearing as a “job hopper” or a “activist” was just the start. Now you needed to …
Dispatch from an advertising future #66
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 …
Dispatch from an advertising future #63
https://www.engadget.com/ai-recreates-painting-techniques-of-famous-artists-022923128.html The package wasn’t bad. Lump sum, pension, even options. Bearing in mind the numbers he’d seen ‘let go’ with less ceremony and security, he wasn’t grumbling. He’d been thinking about that novel anyway. The Zoom farewell party was set, the courier had been round for the Aeron. All he had to do was spend …
Dispatch from an advertising future #61
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/12/1003475/facebooks-deepfake-detection-challenge-neural-network-ai/ It was an opportunity. Even if she wasn’t taking another year out to see if the University was going to bring back classrooms, she’d have taken the internship. She’d get to work with the power of massive AI and machine learning whirring in the background (or so she imagined) and on something worthwhile – …