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☆ Opinion | ‘Artificial Intelligence?’ No, Collective Intelligence.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A.I.-generated art has flooded the internet, and a lot of it is derivative, even boring or offensive. called “Spawn” trained on human voices that adds an uncanny yet oddly personal layer to the music. Beyond her music and visual art, Herndon is trying to solve a problem that many creative people are encountering as A.I. baby,” Spawn, on “PROTO”; how A.I. voice imitators grew out of electronic music and other musical genres; why Herndon prefers the term “collective intelligence” to “artificial intelligence”; why an “opt-in” model could help us retain more control of our work as A.I.

Persons: Holly Herndon, Mathew Dryhurst, Jules LaPlace, ”, Herndon, Jordan Meyer, Patrick Hoepner, “, Ezra Klein Organizations: Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube Locations: Dryhurst

☆ Inside WPP's multiyear plan to transform its giant media buying business GroupM
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

While GroupM always had country-level P&Ls, it previously let its individual agencies — EssenceMediaCom, Wavemaker, MSix&Partners, and Mindshare — be responsible for their own budgets. This move is the latest in Juhl's plan to make these different media agencies follow similar business practices across all of the markets in which GroupM operates. Under Juhl, GroupM centralized media delivery within a unit called Nexus and centralized all of GroupM's data and technology within a unit called Choreograph. Juhl said that despite the push to streamline its business, GroupM's individual agency brands will continue to operate as separate entities rather than a homogenous media group. WPP said last month it will reveal more details about its plans to simplify GroupM at its Capital Markets Day in January.

Persons: Christian Juhl, GroupM, Juhl, —, Publicis, EssenceMediaCom, Mindshare, Kirk McDonald Organizations: Business, Ls, MSix, Partners, Groupe, Unilever, North America, WPP Locations: GroupM, China

☆ A ChatGPT rival just published a new constitution to level up its AI guardrails, and prevent toxic and racist responses
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

OpenAI rival Anthropic revamped its constitution around AI safety using public input. Users of its AI chatbot, Claude, want it to admit flaws, and avoid racist or sexist responses. The new guardrails follow months of concerns from tech and government leaders around AI safety. The updates to Anthropic's constitution follow months of concern around AI safety, including from some technology leaders. Read the full version of Anthropic's new AI constitution here.

Persons: Anthropic, Claude, —, Dario Amodei, Sam Bankman, Fried, didn't, Elon Musk, Nadella, Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook, Anthropic's Amodei Organizations: Service, Amazon, Intelligence, Microsoft, Google, Apple, White Locations: OpenAI, San Francisco, Washington

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☆ The personality trait more managers are hiring for right now: The 'star system' doesn't 'work for us anymore'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

But recently, managers are starting to prize a different trait: agreeableness. In situations with high levels of uncertainty, agreeableness has shown itself to be an asset, according to a new study published in Collective Intelligence. All study participants took a 242-question personality assessment, which recorded how much of each of the Big Five personality traits they might have. The Big Five personality traits are: NeuroticismExtraversionOpennessConscientiousnessAgreeableness Neuroticism decreases team performance, according to the study, especially when uncertainty is involved in the group task. Past research on agreeableness, though, has shown the trait to be "mostly irrelevant" to completing tasks, Peterson says.

Persons: Lean, agreeableness, Randall Peterson, Peterson, It's Organizations: Collective Intelligence, London School of Business

☆ Think A.I. is Coming for the Watch World? It’s Already There.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Victoria Gomelsky | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

During a press roundtable event at the Cartier booth at Watches and Wonders, Cyrille Vigneron, the brand’s chief executive, said that A.I. “By having so much data coming from call centers or web inquiries or even what words customers use on comments or on their own social media, you have a lot of words,” Mr. Vigneron said. “What we’ve done for the last five years is be distinctively ourselves,” Mr. Vigneron said. “That’s collective intelligence, and not artificial.”Expansion plansBrands aren’t the only watch-world entities looking to optimize their operations with A.I. Wristcheck, a Hong Kong retailer of pre-owned watches, is planning to introduce what it calls Wristcheck Intelligence this year.

Persons: Cyrille Vigneron, Cartier, Mr, Vigneron, “, ”, “ We’re, ” Mr, ” Austen Chu Organizations: Cartier, Normale, A.I Locations: Hong Kong

☆ The only thing Elon Musk understands about Twitter is how to kill it
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Biologists, anthropologists, and information theorists do think that social networks, like Musk's bird app, show at least some signs of being flocks. "Elon's tweet is basically espousing the invisible hand of social behavior," Bak-Coleman says. In this construction, a social network might have become a collective superintelligence, had capitalists left it to its — our? Under Musk, Twitter has entered the dance-off phase. I'll be sad if the Twitter superintelligence starts singing a Kubrickian cover of "Daisy" and implodes into a pile of melting isolinear chips.

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