“ChatGPT and other Generative AI platforms will have huge implications for business productivity.”

“In a world where ChatGPT and other AI apps can do many things humans once needed to do themselves or needed to hire other humans to do, the question of ‘how will I add value?’ becomes more relevant than ever.”

“How will you add value in the era of generative AI? If you aren’t attempting to answer this question now by choice, it will ultimately be answered for you by force.”

“In an era of generative AI, trust will accrue greater value in the marketplace. People will elevate trust on their list of prerequisites to purchase and prerequisites to engage with content. Furthermore, there will be a redistribution of income and assets from companies and people who are less trusted to those companies and people who are more trusted.”

“In the age of generative AI, trust brokers will become increasingly necessary and increasingly valuable in the marketplace.”

― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth, Business Essentials 

Generative AI is one of the most groundbreaking advancements in recent years, a cutting-edge technology revolutionizing how marketers engage with their audiences.

“On generative AI, LLMs, etc.

Humans acquire language and communication skills from a diverse range of sources, including raw, unfiltered, and unstructured content. However, when it comes to relying on knowledge, humans tend to rely on transparent, trusted, and structured sources.

In contrast, ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) use a vast array of opaque, unattested sources of raw, unfiltered, and unstructured content as their means of language and communication training and as the source of information used in their responses.

While this approach has proven to be effective in generating natural language, it has also been inconsistent and, at times, significantly lacking in integrity in its responses. While it may provide information, it does not necessarily provide knowledge.

To be truly useful, generative AI must be able to separate language and communication training from the acquisition of knowledge to be used in its responses. This will allow LLMs to not only generate coherent and fluent language but also to provide accurate and reliable information to users. However, in a culture that values self-proclaimed influencers where transparency and accuracy is secondary, it has become increasingly challenging to separate reliable information from misinformation and knowledge from ignorance. This poses a significant obstacle for AI algorithms that strive to provide accurate and trustworthy responses.”


“The danger of generative AI is that it lacks the ability to understand misinformation, leading to incorrectly equating correlation with causation based on incomplete/inaccurate data or lack of contextual awareness required to understand sensitive dependencies between data sets. The unintended consequence is technology shaping societal views on politics, culture and science.”

― Tom Golway

In a new TED Talk, OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman shows off the power and potential of the all-new ChatGPT plugins…and the results are stunning.

Yup!
Thanks to ChatGPT plugins, ChatGPT can now traverse the internet and interact with third-party services and applications, resulting in AI agents that can take actions in the real world to help us with our work.

In the talk, Brockman shows off how knowledge workers will soon work hand-in-hand with machines—and how this is going to start changing things months (or even weeks) from now, not years. Listen here and decode what it means for the future of work.

The Secret list of Websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart.
RedditWants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems.
Elon Musk threatening Microsoft with lawsuits based on training.
Stability AI releases a new open-source language model, StableLM.

Significant updates from Google --
AI research team, Brain, would merge with DeepMind, creating Google DeepMind.

Google is working on a project titled “Magi.” It involves completing transactions, such as buying shoes or booking flight — all while still incorporating the existing – and lucrative – Google search ads. New York Times has confirmed some AI features will roll out in the US this year and that ads will remain a part of AI-powered search results.

Google announced Bard had been updated with new features to help you code.
Bard can now generate code and help you debug code. As these updates rolled out, reporting from Bloomberg revealed that some Google employees think the company is making ethical lapses by rushing the development of AI tools, particularly around Bard and the accuracy of its responses.

Other Google projects.

• Google Earth’s mapping technology with help from AI and search for music through a conversation with a chatbot.
• GIFI would use AI to generate images in Google Image results.
• Tivoli Tutor, would teach users a new language through open-ended AI text conversations.
  
• Searchalong, would let users ask a chatbot questions while surfing the web through Google’s Chrome browser.

AI companies like OpenAI are coming under fire for how AI tools are trained, and social media channels like Reddit and Twitter are pushing back.

Reddit, which is often scraped to train language models, just announced it would charge for API access, in order to stop AI companies from training models on Reddit data without compensation.  And Elon Musk publicly threatened to sue Microsoft for, he says, “illegally using Twitter data” to train models. Other companies are sure to follow suit.

An investigative report by the Washington Post recently found that large language models from Google and Meta trained on data from major websites like Wikipedia, The New York Times, and Kickstarter. In one example, the Post found models had trained on an ebook piracy site and likely did not have permission to use the data it trained on. Not to mention, the copyright symbol appeared more than 200 million times in the data set the Post studied.

We’ve arrived at a fork in the road, and a decision must now be made.
To be blunt, choosing the wrong path forward could result in the complete implosion of the creative community.

AI should be embraced as a creative tool, not as a replacement to human creators!

Artificial intelligence is the hottest and most talked about happenings in the tech world.
If you would like to know the best AI tools available for enhancing productivity, improving writing, and generating multimedia content, including sounds and videos, you are in the right place.

From AI tools that enhances your writing to creating images for use on social media platforms to video enhancers capable of deleting objects and creating virtual avatars, here are some of the AI helpers to galvanize human creativity and exploring the broad-ranging scope of how AI works.

When Bitcoin came into being about more than a decade ago, it set about to solve a big challenge: peer to peer monetary transaction — making it possible for “strangers anywhere in the world to make financial transactions over the internet without financial intermediaries and payment processors like Visa or Mastercard assisting the transaction.”   

This tech know-how that makes decentralized transactions possible — and which created the universe of cryptocurrencies as we have comr to know — is called a blockchain.

But, blockchains previously had one major downside compared to centralized networks like the ones credit-card companies use: they’re slower. As of August 2021, Ethereum typically processes fewer than 15 transactions per second, compared to tens of thousands for Visa’s network.

Solana, on the other hand is one of many new crypto solutions aiming to make crypto networks faster and more scalable. It uses a suite of clever technologies, including a novel mechanism called “proof of history.”

Solana Dreams Big.

With over $30 billion market cap, Solana isn’t interested in competing with Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies on every front. All it really wants is to completely disrupt Wall Street and the rest of the global markets. Solana is building “an open, fair, censorship-resistant global marketplace” that’s better than anything inside of the New York Stock Exchange or any other means of settling trades.

With many developers flocking to Solana, here are some of the exciting projects that are happening on the Solana blockchain.

Chingari is a TikTok-style short video sharing app and a social media platform to date to launch its official cryptocurrency. Users will earn GARI tokens for creating and sharing content that goes viral and to tip other users if they enjoy their videos.

“With Chingari, powered by $GARI, you can create and share fun videos on the award-winning app and earn special Chingari tokens, or $GARI, which you can trade in the global crypto marketplace.” Users may also tip other users if they enjoy their videos.

According to GenX Analytics, GARI has already become the second most widely held cryptocurrency token on the Solana Blockchain.

Enter Solana Pay

Solana Pay allows merchants and users to pay in real-time, in $SOL, or any other supported Solana token, such as real-time payments in USD Coin (USDC), without involving a third-party such as a bank or payments processor.
Moreover, Solana Pay doesn’t allow for chargebacks, removing a costly issue that traditional merchants often face.

Moreover, Solana Pay offers detailed reports on every transaction such as wallet destination, currency type, the transaction amount and text fields for the merchant to describe the said transaction — doing all this while keeping it private from the rest of the network.

For other Solano cutting edge projects explore here.

Whether Solano can take over Wall Street is yet to be seen.
But, it all started with a dream.

In late 2017, Solano's founder Anatoly Yakovenko published a whitepaper draft detailing a new timekeeping technique for distributed systems called Proof of History (PoH), the key to dreaming different.

In blockchains like Bitcoin and Etheruem, that depends on Proof of Work (POW), one of the limitations to scalability is the time required to reach a consensus on the order of transactions. Having thus said, Ethereum is upgrading to Proof of Stake (POS).

The world received a taste of the scalability problems in 2017 and 2018: severe transfer delays and high fees on the Bitcoin network, and the notorious Cryptokitties app that congested the Ethereum blockchain network (a network that thousands of decentralized applications rely on).

Anatoly believed his new technique could automate the transaction ordering process for blockchains, providing a key piece that would enable crypto networks to scale well-beyond their capabilities at the time.

As the saying goes, the rest is history.
Or, you could say, the rest is doing the dream.

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The global pandemic has quite effectively proven our love affair with immersive social commerce wherein users interact with AR (augemented reality) portryal of products and purchase it without leaving the platform.

Even before COVID-19, e-commerce shoppers  wanted AR help visualizing how products would look in their environments, and a the shoots of demand to virtually try on new makeup or clothing had already started to sprout. The onset of the pandemic only hastened the process.

AI Driven Automation is Boosting Rewards in Terms of Profits, Productivity and Relevance

Obviously Amazon was one of the pioneers in shopping recommendations. Since it's early days, it has witnessed changes in its algorithms over the years.

• Amazon uses AI to drive prices dynamically; that is it reduces the costs to elicit more sales when required and simultaneously increase prices when the demands are high. The algorithm enables optimal sales and revenue automatically.  

 

• As a visionary leader in the use of technology, Amazon has now opened checkout-free physical stores in Seattle, Chicago, and San Francisco, which have AI-powered sensors and cameras. This technology can tell exactly which items a customer has picked up and will automatically charge them as they walk out of the store using the Amazon Go app. With 'contactless' being the norm in these pandemic times, Amazon is all set to reap rapid profit.
  

 

• Google is taking a page out of Instagram's influencer book with the new Shoploop app, developed in its experimental workshop Area 120. The experience, according to General Manager Lax Poojary, "is more interactive than just scrolling through images, titles, and descriptions on a traditional e-commerce site."

Taking skin swabs to test bacterial analysis and DNA – and therefore receiving customized products aligning to your microbiome and genetic make-up – are just two ways in which brands will be targeting your beauty wellness in the new decade.

As data shows, it is getting harder to stand out in established social media.
AR and AI is seeing breakthroughs within product development — moving from a showcase novelty to functionality that the majority of the customers use.

To keep customers inside their brand eco-system, many fashion and cosmetic brands are partnering with gaming companies to entice their customers with perpetual call to action.

Emerging social media networks, including those focused on gaming such as Fortnite or Tencent’s mobile game Honour of Kings, which have fast become integral to youth culture.
In China, brands such as Mac Cosmetics, L’Oréal and Hong Kong jeweller Chow Sang Sang have all partnered with Honour of Kings, which has more than 200 million registered players of whom more than half are female (and women mobile gamers are 79 percent more likely to make an in-app purchase)

Sources:
Deloitte, Google Consumer AR Survey, Retail Customer Experience, MarketingDive, SmarterHQ, Statista, Entrepreneur

In the vastness of space and immensity of time, the chance of you happening as you, is one in 400 billion. And, that is no joke. Think about it. Ask any scientist and he/she will validate it. “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”  And that is the reason why you always carry this feeling of emptiness, a sense of always being a part of something; not very sure what that is. I believe that is because, the whole cosmos comes together to make you, you in your contemporaneous glory and the ratio of that happening is 1:400,000,000,000

“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.” 
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Design, architecture and technology merged to bring this mysterious sensation within the grasp of our immediate touch. It takes fearless humility to accept the vastness of this universe. The most effective way, I believe, even to comprehend it, is using the scientific and technological tools that are available at our disposal. Though science is in a state of unfading revolution, always subject to revision and never envisioning the complete reality, it does give you "successive approximations of reality."
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Artists and Designers use direction, dramatic contrasts, and placement relationships to  draw our attention to areas of emphasis and focal points.
Emphasis is the principle by which an artist draws attention to particular content. A focal point is a specific place of visual emphasis in a work of art or design. Most works of art have at least one area of emphasis and multiple focal points.
An artist can emphasize focal points through the use of line, implied line, value, color or as it so happens in this case,  more than 14,000 LED lights. " Like the bull’s-eye on a target, focal points concentrate our attention. Even though our field of vision is fairly wide, at any given moment we can only focus our vision on a small area. The physiology of vision underlies the principle of focal point. _"

The emphasis is here on the 12 meter high wall that cascades through the space giving way to ‘graffiti fetish’, trademark of a British artist INSA. When an environment exists beyond its primary purpose of  dining and and explores the dominion of drama and participation the resulting phenomenon is  G9 Shanghai. The diners are invited to engage with the art work through the "3D depth sensing capabilities of an xbox kinect camera that empowers them to control its speed and brightness with simple hand gestures."
Image Source: Designboom

• Write for humans
• Do not stuff keywords in your content
• Use, synonymous, related keywords.
• Write in-depth articles. Develop a flair for developing concept that has cross functional purpose. e.g, Holistic Branding
• The use of Perennial long tail key word.
• Use relevant forums to publish your content.
• Write compelling meta description
• Use naked urls.
• Use technology to harness technology. Hint: Combine Google Suggest, Google Trend and Ubersuggest.

As brands are on the quest for new heights in the field of relevant searches and technology is on the move to understand your intent on demand, some of the brightest minds come together to present us the entice and the enthrall of the SEO kingdom.

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An independent filmmaker Claude Mossessian, uploaded this video for those of us who missed this spectacular pixellated beauty in its glory.


"The three-minute clip shows how the white-washed church exterior opens up into a kaleidoscope of color, design and shape-shifting splendor that references everything from microorganisms to embroidery."
Built in a  Neo-Gothic style but inflenced by the  Moroccan Muslim, the huge Cathédrale Sacré-Coeur is a surprising delight in the heart o Casablanca. French transmedia installation designer Miguel Chevalier created magic on the floor by projecting animation that turned the institution's massive floor into a multicolored, reactive art experience.

In the artist's very own words.
Magic Carpets revisit the tradition of the Islamic art, in particular the mosaic and the carpets.
A huge light carpet covers the floor of Sacré Coeur church. When the viewer moves, the trajectory of the curves is disrupted under their feet. This world of colors and forms in movement, invites us into the magic universe of the "Arabian Nights" and the flying carpets with the music of Michel Redolfi.
This installation has been made possible thanks to the French Institut et de Voxels Productions.