https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/15/21518182/google-new-hum-to-search-feature-identify-song-machine-learning It was liminal. On the edge of consciousness, the tip of his tongue. It must have been something he saw or heard yesterday and now it was like a nagging loose tooth he couldn’t help worrying. He couldn’t do anything about it until his break, he told himself, his work devices were locked until …
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Dispatches from an advertising future #117
https://adage.com/article/special-report-40-under-40/ad-ages-list-40-people-under-age-40-shaping-marketing-media-and-agency-industries/2285111 I’d like to thank all those who made this possible. We’re a youth-centred industry but there are many older colleagues without whom I would not be on this awards call today. I’ve been lucky to work for some of the greats in the industry, real Ad Men and Ad Women who knew the job …
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Dispatch from an advertising future #116
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-future-brain/202009/new-brain-computer-interface-transforms-thoughts-images They said he could think anything, imagine anywhere, dream whatever. They said something about really wanting to know how young people thought. It was much more fun than his previous job with them: watching ads. This was so much better he thought as he imagined the gig, the holocrowd going crazy, his solo so …
Dispatch from an advertising future #112
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/24/1008882/facebook-ai-test-benchmark-people-break-adversarial/ He’d told her he had a job with “a big tech company”. She was so proud. He’d spent three years in his room: in lectures, tutorials, ‘socialising’ or whatever students did. She had wondered if the fees had been worth it. But now he had a job. She’d heard how much people could earn. …
Dispatches from an advertising future #107
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/18/1008559/letter-writing-lockdown-loneliness-get-out-the-vote/ I imagine them opening it. You’ve seen feeds of them waiting by their new letterbox for my papergram to arrive: expectant, delighted. Sometimes they rip them open, sometimes they take endless time. I can almost feel it when I’m writing. Of course I’ve always had their profile to work with, but I think imagining …
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Dispatch from an advertising future #103
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/09/ai-ruined-chess-now-its-making-the-game-beautiful-again/ They called me the “ugly duckling”. They were the ones people wanted to see. “It’s a revolution, a whole new world,” the press marvelled. There were documentaries and of course awards. I knew they were the next big thing when commentators used the word “dangerous”. They were perfection. And then there was me. I …