Happy Thursday!
No weekly Thursday newsletter on how technology has impacted the media and entertainment world this week (it’s summer. And I’m going to take the day to enjoy it).
Instead, sending you lots of love and positive thoughts (coffee from Starbucks).
Happy Thursday!
When it comes to research, I have lots of ways of storing the information:
A) if I found the information in a newspaper or magazine, I’ll clip the article and file it in a folder. And group it together (eg: technology articles in one pile, fitness articles in another. You get the idea).
B) if the information is in an email newsletter, I’ll either open the link, read the article then copy and paste the link into my Pages (this is Apple’s version of MS Word) document under the appropriate category (eg: fitness) or I’ll file it into one of my folders in my email inbox (I have a section called “datamining” with lots of sub topics (media and entertainment trends etc).
The same idea applies in the media and entertainment world (and technology’s impact on it).
Without the proper metadata, the song you wanted to play on your voice assisted device (Alexa, Siri) or favorite streaming software (Apple Music, Spotify) can’t be found.
As you can tell from Ben’s article, there’s a lot of problems when it comes to metadata. Especially if you want to find a classical song:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/business/media/stream-classical-music-spotify.html
P.S. I’ll be honest with you, I had a hard time writing this weekly review? Why? Because I was distracted by this water fountain:
It’s Thursday!
Your weekend starts now.
I will be using today’s #AIChat as my weekly round up on how technology has impacted the media and entertainment world.
My guest? Victor Riparbelli (@vriparbelli), CEO and co-founder of SyntesiaIO
The topic? How can artificial intelligence help the media/advertising and entertainment world.
Mistakes are mine.
Have a great weekend!
See you next Thursday for the weekly round up!
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It’s 10AM EST. 3PM UK.
Welcome to #AIChat.
Where my guests help you make sense of the #AI world.
See the pinned tweet/#croissant for the #AIChat rules.
I have a packed 30 minutes so let’s get started with my guest Victor Riparbelli, CEO and co-founder of @synthesiaIO
— Nick Tang (@nickhtang) June 20, 2019
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First, Victor will post a link to demo how @syntheisaIO is being used to help the #media/#entertainment/#ad field #AIChat
— Nick Tang (@nickhtang) June 20, 2019
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Thanks Nick! 👋 Here’s an example of how we use AI to remove language barriers and translate content seamlessly: https://t.co/anOqmyb0TK
— Victor (@vriparbelli) June 20, 2019
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Whats happening under the hood in this video is the same thing you would see in a Hollywood blockbuster like Star Wars or Bladerunner. We re-create a digital representation of Beckham which allows us to sync the video to the new language.
— Victor (@vriparbelli) June 20, 2019
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In marketing this is a tool that can help companies reach a much larger audience when using video without having to 1) degrade the content with CC/dubbing 2) re-shoot everything in several different languages.
— Victor (@vriparbelli) June 20, 2019
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Q1 for @vriparbelli, CEO and co-founder @synthesiaIO
How can #AI be used to help the #media/#ad/#entertainment world? #AIChat
— Nick Tang (@nickhtang) June 20, 2019
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Most people think of AI as an analytical tool to help/automate decision making. Thats very valuable. But AI is now learning to actually create content: video, images, audio, text. This family of technologies are often called Synthetic Media.
— Victor (@vriparbelli) June 20, 2019
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These technologies will supercharge content creation and enable everyone to create 100x more content than they do today at a fraction of the time, cost and skills required today. I believe mass-communication will soon be an artefact of the past.
— Victor (@vriparbelli) June 20, 2019
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In the near future you will be able to have your favourite celebrity teach you physics at a pace that fits you and tailored to your interests. Just like you would in the real world.
— Victor (@vriparbelli) June 20, 2019
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This is an amazing development. Technology is your pace. Not others. Do you see anything else coming down the pipe in the next 2-3 years?
— Nick Tang (@nickhtang) June 20, 2019
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In the next 2-3 years I believe we will hear the worlds first uncanny artificial voice, trend towards everyone creating/watching more synthetic content than “real” content and implement systems for media verification at a large scale.
— Victor (@vriparbelli) June 20, 2019
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Today it means that content can be personalised and localised in a much more efficient manner than before: using AI a single video can for example be rephrased to better address your customers interests without having to spend days on a production set.
— Victor (@vriparbelli) June 20, 2019
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It’s Thursday!
Welcome to the start of your weekend!
And to my week in review on how technology impacted the media and entertainment world this week.
Since I missed last week’s post (work is getting in the way), I could have written about this:
https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2019/06/should-copyright-protect-music-created-by-artificial-intelligence.html (P.S. You’re going to see a lot more of these articles in the future).
Or this:
https://www.analyticsindiamag.com/7-online-artificial-intelligence-tools-to-generate-your-own-music/ (Written by Bhasker Gupta)
Or this:
https://thehustle.co/broadway-theater-streaming-broadwayhd/ (Written by Conor Grant. P.S. The big picture if you create TV shows or movies? You too can use OTT to get more viewers. And $$$)
Or this:
https://www.tvbeurope.com/content/facebook-watch-signs-first-european-content-deal (Written by Jenny Priestly. Your key idea? Facebook is diversifying it’s revenue streams by partnering with others to show their content in 10-15 minutes short stories. Another example of technology companies partnering with others).
But I’ll focus on this article written by Professor Nicholas Diakopoulos: http://theconversation.com/artificial-intelligence-enhanced-journalism-offers-a-glimpse-of-the-future-of-the-knowledge-economy-117728
Why?
There’s a lot of noise when it comes to artificial intelligence and how it’s being used in the media and entertainment field.
In some cases, you’ll read that artificial intelligence will eliminate jobs being done by humans (eg: editing) as the software learns what to keep. Or delete (the key idea you need to remember? It’s all about the metadata. And how humans are helping the artificial intelligence by placing it in the right category. To help the artificial intelligence software learn).
Me? I love being the contrarian. Artificial intelligence won’t replace humans in the media and entertainment industry. In fact, the software will help humans at work. By doing all the boring work so you can focus on the “why”.
One example off the top of my head? Let’s pretend you’re a Research Analyst at a cable network (I used to be one a few years ago). Each day, you have to download the Nielsen TV ratings. And open it into an Excel spreadsheet so you can analyze it. What happens if you create an artificial intelligence software that can do this for you? So it can automatically download and sort the data for you? In the way you want it? That save you time?*
Once this is done, you can start looking for the “why”. For instance, you look at the data and see that cable network Y had a rating of Z. Now you can start examining why -> was it because there was a national weather event that made people watch channel Y? Breaking news? Other?
That’s what you (and humans) excel in. Finding the “why”. Connecting the dots. Looking beyond the data to examine other factors.
That’s the big picture you need to focus when you read about technology’s impact on the media and entertainment world (or in any other field to be honest with you).
See you next Thursday! Enjoy your Friday and weekend!
P.S. * I will apologize if this already being done.
Happy Thursday!
I hope you had a productive week!
Your time is valuable. And I respect it.
I could post a billion news articles and analyze them one by one, but to be honest with you, everyone else is doing it.
I’d rather focus on one article and give you my short analysis on it (that way, you can get on with your day).
So for this week’s review, I could talk about these articles:
A) Written by Michelle Clancy at RapidTVNews, this article demonstrates that bitcoin is being used to finance the next film (you already know this. And to be honest with you, we’re entering hype bitcoin)
B) Written by Ellie Silverman at “The Inquirer” (in summary? QVC is a US TV shopping channel. The original influencer. Notice how tech (YouTube and Instagram influencers) are taking over. Why? Everyone wants to watch it now. And buy the product now. No one has time to scan a TV schedule to see what’s on).
But I want to talk about this article written by James Vincent at the Verge:
The short summary? It hasn’t been proven that using artificial intelligence will help the movie (or media and entertainment or ad world etc) industry create a better film (think about it -> as you’re reading this post, Avengers Endgame, Aladdin and Pokémon Detective Pikachu are leading the box office right now. Proven franchises that lead to profits. No artificial intelligence was used to create these movies).
An even shorter and faster summary to James’ article?
This tweet from Yves Bergquist (his Twitter handle? @punkstrategy. You should follow him on Twitter. You’ll learn a lot from him):
I can’t express strongly enough how wrong the statistical models described in this piece are. That’s why not a single self respecting studio is using them. https://t.co/89tnNgVDvH
— Yves Bergquist (@punkstrategy) May 29, 2019
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Enjoy your Friday and weekend!
See you next Thursday!
Happy Thursday!
I hope you’re having an amazing start to summer (if you live in the northern hemisphere) or fall (if you live in the southern hemisphere).
Here’s the one article that impressed me this week when it comes to technology’s impact on the media and entertainment world (it’s written by Ana Nicolaci Da Costa from the BBC):
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47944276
Let’s break this down/implications:
A) yes, you’re seeing a lot of articles on artificial intelligence. Why? Because no one has figured out how it’ll impact the media/entertainment (or any other field). Everything is a guess at the moment
B) no, artificial intelligence won’t take your job (I assume you’re a human reading my article. If you’re a robot…)
C) in order for artificial intelligence to create X (X = advert/advertising/article/story etc), it needs to access the earlier content. The content that humans have made. Only then can it be used to create new content by splicing and analyzing the data
D) yes, artificial intelligence is a tool. That saves you time. By helping you analyze the data. And giving you options (kind of like those multiple choice exams you had in high school/college/uni. P.S. The answer? It’s always “C” 😉 and
E) from a media and entertainment POV, you’re (the human) always in control of picking (and modifying) the content. Can it give your company an edge? Of course it could. Unless your competitors are using it. Then you’ll have to use a human (and human creativity) to stand out.
Have a great weekend!
I’ll see you next Thursday!
P.S. If you need some more background information, my guests and I talked about this during #AIChat (#AIChat is a monthly Twitter chat on artificial intelligence (AI). You’ll love reading it because there’s two distinct views on how AI will impact the media and entertainment world (I’d take notes if I were you):
https://nickhtang.com/2019/02/22/the-robot-could-be-watching-you/
Happy Thursday!
I analyze how technology impacts the media and entertainment industry.
Here are the three articles you need to read so you can stay ahead of your competitors. Or you’ll end getting left behind:
1) from Kyle Wiggers:
https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/14/ibms-ai-achieves-state-of-the-art-broadcast-news-captioning/
Let’s be honest. Everyone says artificial intelligence will become your next news captioner/reporter etc. But as you read the article, you’ll notice that this wasn’t done during a live broadcast.
And if you think about it, a TV news operation still needs human reporters/editors etc to find and edit the stories you see on your local TV newscast.
The winners? The human reporters, editors etc.
2) from Charlene Weisler:
http://weislermedia.blogspot.com/2019/05/how-ai-and-machine-learning-are.html
Charlene’s headline says it all. Focus on her interviewees who talk about sports content. And the lastest GOT (Game of Thrones) coffee cup mistake (and how artificial intelligence can be used in both areas).
3) from Robert Briel:
https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2019/05/16/netflix-leads-french-svod-market-with-57-3-share/
If you live in France, these numbers should/will scare you. Why? It demonstrates that technology (in this case, Netflix) is disrupting the linear TV and cable world (think about it for a second. Each time you play/stop/pause a program you watch on Netflix, it’s a datapoint for the company to consider).
P.S. Keep in mind that the French subscribers of Netflix are watching US content (and since there’s a lot of it on Netflix) = higher market share.
That’s your Thursday and early weekend round up from me.
See you next Thursday!
Have a great weekend!
It’s Thursday!
Welcome to the start of your weekend!
Here are the two ways (in my mind) on how technology has impacted the media and entertainment sector this week:
A) from Joe Lemire at “Sporttechie” -> artificial intelligence is getting better at reporting high school sports stories. I’d keep on eye on this. Why? Because as the software gets better, it could/will free up the other human reporters to focus on in-depth investigative stories:
https://www.sporttechie.com/lede-ai-scorestream-partnership-automated-high-school-sports-stories/
P.S. I covered this in an #AIChat in February 2019 with Yves Bergquist (Twitter handle: @punkstrategy) and Peter D. Cathy (Twitter handle:@pcsathy). Consider this supplementary material. The topic? Artificial intelligence, media and technology:
https://nickhtang.com/2019/02/22/the-robot-could-be-watching-you/
B) from Jon Lafayette at “Broadcasting and Cable.” Verizon Media is the perfect example of a media company that is using 5G, AR and extended reality to stand out from the rest. Because if you don’t stand out, no one will want to watch your content:
https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/verizon-media-takes-shopping-documentary-and-news-to-5g and
C) I have to admit, I’m a fitness addict. My second home is the gym. In case you’re bored and you need a cool fitness routine, take a look at the one Coach Paula (my Sunday personal trainer) created for me last Sunday. It’s guaranteed to make you sweat:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw34hsPlpBa/
Have a great Friday and weekend!
See you next Thursday!
