The Discussion: Identity, Audiences and Avatars #21

07/19/23 • 59 min

Let’s dump the doomerism and take a positive look at AI. In this episode I’m speaking with audience expert David Boyle. As co-author of ‘Prompt’ David has quite literally written the book on how AI can be used to enhance the creation of all types of content across a variety of sectors. I also chat with Matthew Kershaw, VP of commercial strategy at D-id.com, about the rise in the creation of digital avatars, the anthropomorphism of digital assistance and what it means for our future digital selves.

Tracey's book 'The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology?' available in the UK and US

David and Richard’s website https://prompt.mba/

David’s book https://www.amazon.co.uk/PROMPT-Brands-practical-ChatGPT-Practical/dp/B0C1JD7C32

Audience Strategies website https://www.audiencestrategies.com/

Matthew is at D-ID.com’s website https://www.d-id.com/

D-ID.com on linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/deidentification/

TF14 was built by https://thepeeps.xyz/

Tracey's book 'The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology?' available in the UK and US

David and Richard’s website https://prompt.mba/

David’s book https://www.amazon.co.uk/PROMPT-Brands-practical-ChatGPT-Practical/dp/B0C1JD7C32

Audience Strategies website https://www.audiencestrategies.com/

Matthew is at D-ID.com’s website https://www.d-id.com/

D-ID.com on linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/deidentification/

TF14 was built by https://thepeeps.xyz/

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The Briefing: AI: The Death of The Artist? #20

In this episode of The Briefing I consider how AI is impacting art and artists. We drop in on the Stanford event around Creativity in the Age of AI, we consider some of the news making headlines about China and AI. And we end up at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, in Warsaw, from where I spoke about AI and the Death of the Artist.

Tracey's book 'The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology?' available in the UK and US

China Inc. Shows How Generative AI Can Be Serious Business https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/China-Inc.-shows-how-generative-AI-can-be-serious-business

Is AI Killing Art? https://radii.co/article/ai-art-zhang-huan-xu-bing

Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence: Creativity In The Age of AI event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9wOvFihY74

Mateusz Szsiedlecki on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mateuszsiedleckiphoto/

"'AI: The Death of the Artist?' is part of the Culture Tensions discussions curated by Manick Govinda and Agnieszka Kolek, commissioned by the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw Poland”.

Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw Poland https://u-jazdowski.pl/en

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BBC News article on the launch of Worldcoin https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66128111

Vitalek's essay https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/07/24/biometric.html

Tracey Follows, Forbes article on Synthetic Self https://www.forbes.com/sites/traceyfollows/2023/07/21/i-used-generative-ai-to-create-a-synthetic-self-and-you-can-too/?sh=1e97b2216dbd

Ian Crocombe Linkedin linkedin.com/in/iancrocombe

Tracey's book 'The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology?' available in the UK (https://bit.ly/44ObTha) and US (https://bit.ly/3OlDxgk)

The Future of You - The Discussion: Identity, Audiences and Avatars #21

Transcript

Tracey Follows 0:20

In this episode of The Future of You, we're going to get away from all this doomerism and take a positive view of AI. So we're going to look at some ways in which AI can potentially level the playing field. Now, I can't look at all the ways it could possibly do this, but I am going to focus on two, prompting, and well, what should we call it avatar-ing. So in the first part, you'll hear from David Boyle, the author of prompt, he's got a series of boo