What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Real Stupidity
You may already know the short, sordid story of Microsoft’s artificial intelligence called ‘Tay.’ Modeled to speak like a teen girl, in an effort to help improve the company’s voice recognition software, Tay took to Twitter, Kik and GroupMe and proved to be quite the conversationalist — if you speak ‘teen girl’ that is. And […]
A Vision for the Future of Content (#IntelContent Talk Highlights)
A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of speaking at the eighth annual (and newly revamped) Intelligent Content Conference. I spoke about content for “the untethered world”, or how content strategists and content marketers can prepare for a world beyond mobile and even — for that matter — beyond screen-based interfaces. While I […]
What Amazon Dash Tells Us About the Future of Shopping – and the Future of Marketing
When Amazon announced Dash — a series of branded smart buttons that will allow Prime members to simply press to replenish popular packaged goods as supply runs low (reorders are automatically fulfilled through Amazon, of course) — right around April 1st, people questioned whether the retail giant was treating them to an April Fool’s Day joke. […]