Machine Yearning

This chapter is an excerpt from our interviews at the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. We went to Cannes to tap the brains and imaginations of an incredible gathering of leaders and innovators in technology, advertising and brand communication. In this chapter, Assist’s Shane Mac sits down with Daniel Hodges. Daniel’s a pathfinder for brands, industries and individuals who are weaving their way through this disruptive time. He thinks like an analyst, but talks to you like a trust

This chapter is an excerpt from our interviews at the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. We went to Cannes to tap the brains and imaginations of an incredible gathering of leaders and innovators in technology, advertising and brand communication. In this chapter, Assist’s Shane Mac sits down with Demitra Sealy. As you’ll soon hear, Demitra has had a front row seat to some amazing AI developments. Specifically, in the ways AI can be enabling new possibilities through mind-body-softw

This chapter is an excerpt from our interviews at the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. We went to Cannes to tap the brains and imaginations of an incredible gathering of leaders and innovators in technology, advertising and brand communication. Here, we talk with visual artist Mario Klingemann. Mario’s been taking neural networks and turning them into his artist’s toolkit. You absolutely MUST go check out his work at quasimondo dot com.

Only 4 episodes into this podcast, we thought we’d change it up a bit. In this and the next episode, we have a bunch of conversations from the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. It’s where over 10,000 folks from 90 countries meet to hand out awards and chop up the future of brand communication. A great place to geek out on our obsessions: Language and how people connect. How we use technology to facilitate our connections. And the hardest one - the blind spots we need to discover so

This chapter is an excerpt from episode 4, a wrap-up of our interviews at the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. It’s where over 10,000 folks from 90 countries meet to hand out awards and chop up the future of brand communication. We used the opportunity to do almost all of our interviews on a boat. But it wasn’t just any boat, it was the floating home of LivePerson, one of the true leaders in transforming customer care from voice calls to mobile messaging at scale. They’re a huge

This chapter is an excerpt from episode 4, a wrap-up of our interviews at the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. It’s where over 10,000 folks from 90 countries meet to hand out awards and chop up the future of brand communication. We used the opportunity to do almost all of our interviews on a boat. But it wasn’t just any boat, it was the floating home of LivePerson, one of the true leaders in transforming customer care from voice calls to mobile messaging at scale. They’re a huge

This chapter is an excerpt from episode 4, a wrap-up of our interviews at the 2018 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. It’s where over 10,000 folks from 90 countries meet to hand out awards and chop up the future of brand communication. We used the opportunity to do almost all of our interviews on a boat. But it wasn’t just any boat, it was the floating home of LivePerson, one of the true leaders in transforming customer care from voice calls to mobile messaging at scale. They’re a hug

Today, it’s scifi writer, social observer and dedicated AI enthusiast Robin Sloan. Robin’s path into AI has been fascinating, starting with his neighborhood library in the Detroit suburbs, weaving through the early days of Macs and, most recently, Robin has been intuiting and bootstrapping his way into some fascinating co-writing experiments with the machine. We find inspiration in the humility and daring he brings to his writing and the collaborative process. Robin has been talking about how, with his

This chapter is an excerpt from our longer conversation with Robin Sloan. Robin is a scifi writer, social observer and dedicated AI enthusiast. Robin has been bootstrapping his way into some fascinating co-writing experiments with the machine. We find inspiration in the daring he brings to his writing and the collaborative process. Lately, Robin has been talking about how, with his machine learning co-writing experiments, “the goal is not to make writing easier, but to make it harder.” Robin is funny, w

This chapter is an excerpt from our longer conversation with Robin Sloan. Robin is a scifi writer, social observer and dedicated AI enthusiast. He’s been bootstrapping his way into some fascinating co-writing experiments with the machine. Since we’ve been talking about writing as “a craft”, the challenge to improve your craft was defined in a few ways. Now, as Robin Sloan is describing, machine learning, the tools and the ways you have to stretch as a writer and collaborator have changed the game, p