Posted on July 24, 2023 1:00 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release | Podcasting | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Web3
AI rewrote 50 of the best-known brand slogans, and survey respondents preferred the AI version 48 percent of the time—even Apple’s “Think Different” slogan fell to the AI alternative. Also in this AI-heavy monthly long-form episode:
- Newsrooms are adopting standards for using AI
- Google is pitching an AI news-writing tool to major media outlets
- How should newsrooms be thinking about AI?
- A study of more than…
Posted on June 19, 2023 2:00 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release | Podcasting
The hype around the metaverse rises and falls, but Second Life is 20 years old and continues to draw users and make money. Neville and Shel explore the reasons Second Life enjoys its ongoing modest success in the June monthly long-form episode of “For Immediate Release.” Also in this episode:
- The state of digital news raises concerns for the public’s news literacy, how…
Posted on May 22, 2023 2:00 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release
The number of change initiatives companies impose upon employees has skyrocketed from two per year in 2016 to 10 in 2022. That has left employees with a serious case of change fatigue, increasing the likelihood that these initiatives will fail. Shel and Neville look at data from Gartner and advice on how to better handle the surge of change programs,…
Posted on April 24, 2023 8:29 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release
Imagine posting to your favorite social network, the one you want your brand to be associated with, and having it appear for all of your followers in the social networks of their choice. It could be possible if the ActivityPub standard continues to spread the way it has been lately. And that could be an important evolution given the meltdown that Twitter is…
Posted on March 20, 2023 3:00 am by Shel Holtz | Chatbots | For Immediate Release | Social Media | Technology | Transparency | Artificial intelligence (AI)
All generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) works fundamentally the same: AI neural networks learn from large training sets, gleaning patterns from the contents of those training sets in order to create original content based on their understanding of those patterns. When the companies behind those AI tools use content available on the web for training, do they need to ask permission…
Posted on February 20, 2023 3:00 am by Shel Holtz | For Immediate Release | Podcasting | Social Media | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Web3 | Metaverse
Mainstream and tech media alike have filled their pages with headlines about disastrous demos, worrisome uses, fleeing users, and evaporating investments. Is it all true? Or is it a combination of clickbait and a failure to understand what’s really happening? In the February long-form episode of the “For Immediate Release” podcast, Neville and Shel look at generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) developments, mostly having to…
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