AI round-up: week of August 21st
"The rule for exponential curves is that they changed the world slowly at first, and then suddenly.”
-Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University innovation economist
The above quote is from the biggest read of the week:
August 14, 2023, from Business Insider: AI is going to eliminate way more jobs than anyone realizes
…on the flip side…
August 23, 2023, from Search Engine Land: No, AI won’t change your marketing job. A contrarian view
(What say you?)
News:
August 23, 2023, from Tech Crunch: Meta releases an AI model that can transcribe and translate close to 100 languages
→C3-PO isn’t impressed. Everyone else is.
August 18, 2023, from Reuters: Big advertisers shift to AI
The ‘say what, now?’ story of the week:
AI and creative: When one ad is more than one ad
→If you’re an actor, is this your future?
August 18, 2023, from The Hollywood Reporter: AI-created art isn’t copyrightable
August 16, 2023 from the McKinsey blog: Meet Lilli, McKinsey’s new generative AI tool that’s a researcher, a time saver and an inspiration.
Perspectives:
August 22, 2023, from Yahoo! Finance: IBM CEO who paused the hiring of 7800 jobs due to AI says the world needs the technology.
August 16, 2023, from Venture Beat: Gartner Hype Cycle places AI on the ‘peak of inflated expectations’
Resources:
The Dark Side of AI: Ensuring Ethical AI Practices in Public Relations
Course alert: Metacademy—Generative AI (free)
From Shelly Palmer
You will want to bookmark these:
- From the U.S. Copyright Office: Copyright and AI resource center.
- From Nieman Lab: AP and AI. Positioning and AP Stylebook updates.