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 …
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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 – …
Dispatch from an advertising future #59
https://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/nike-says-dont-do-it-when-it-comes-racism-reaction-george-floyds-death/2260081 The scanner alert sounded. The threshold had been reached and the Critical Buzz (™) system kicked in. She remembered Weegee the 1930s “ambulance chasing” photographer waiting by his police radio scanner, ready to pounce on a story. She pulled up the screen and the system mapped the possible positions on the news story and …
Dispatch from an advertising future #58
https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/22/21266251/nvidia-ai-gamegan-recreate-pac-man-virutal-environment Some of my colleagues get the cool gig: Cannes, watching hours of case studies, reading entries. They don’t have a glass of rosé, but they do get to hang with the creatives and then pitch their ideas. Even my colleagues in the studio get to show off. They watch and listen to the teams …