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This statement was taken from a Facebook post I read recently. It got me seriously thinking. And inspired a response. The idea that “creativity needs a soul,” suggesting AI can’t be truly creative because it lacks consciousness, comes from a traditional view of creativity. However, this view evolves if we consider how AI’s development affects […]
Yesterday, Open AI launched ‘Sora‘, a new text-to-video model “that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions. Here are my provisional thoughts about its impact: Better Video Making: Now, businesses and marketers can make high-quality videos quickly and cheaply using text. This means even small businesses or people without much money can make […]
In a recent scam (CNN Story), a worker at a major company in Hong Kong was tricked into giving $25 million to criminals. They used advanced deep-faked video to look and sound like the company’s CFO during a fake online meeting. The police in Hong Kong said this is just one of many scams where […]
The current Israel/Palestine debate is already causing a tinderbox of heated dialogue online, particularly as it’s an emotive issue on which most people vehemently polarise to one side. It made me wonder: couldn’t AI help us to chat online with more nuance and less drama? Better yet, could it help us to better understand one […]
Imagine a world where nothing online can be trusted. We’re reaching that dangerous crossroads, fast. Machine-generated content creator tools are at the heart of 2022-3’s zeitgeist, but are sparking intense debate. Some speculate OpenAI’s ‘ChatGPT‘ natural language processing tool represents the death of school essays, or will put people from programmers to copywriters out of […]
In ‘The Big 21st Century Trends‘, we explore the big technologies and challenges facing our species. Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Future of Work and Climate Change. What should audiences be aware of and how can they live harmoniously and productively in a dramatically changing world? Together, we look at the foundational technology layers that are enabling […]
The Future is Now is a set of signposts to a world gripped by accelerated change. Technological innovation continues to raise the standard of living for billions of people around the world. But it’s not without its social, cultural and political consequences – and we are on the cusp of inevitable change to our businesses, […]
There’s a lot of talk in marketing circles about the potential for ‘Augmented Reality’ (AR). Unlike its more totally immersive cousin, Virtual Reality, AR creates new layers of experience over what we already see in the real world. Wikipedia defines AR as ‘a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements […]