The 10 most innovative companies producing live events in 2023
Explore the full 2023 list of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, 540 organizations that are reshaping industries and culture. We’ve selected the firms making the biggest impact across 54 categories, including advertising, beauty, design, and more....
“It’s bringing the vision of the artist to life on stage,” says Karen Allen, a longtime industry consultant and cofounder and CEO of Infinite Album, which creates AI-generated music for livestream gamers. “We’ve been looking for a better way to bring the audience into the show, to make it more fun and a bigger spectacle.” ...
See the full story here: https://www.fastcompany.com/90847714/most-innovative-companies-live-events-2023?fbclid=IwAR1oLzn3K4HTL_DWHR6CqhhTxbsWX7hy07Y9X69JcCNYwVL62DH8Fj1p6Rw
Is the online beauty community ready for DAOs? L’Oréal’s NYX thinks so
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- NYX Professional Makeup, a beauty brand owned by the L’Oréal Group, created a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for the beauty community earlier this year.
- The company sees it as the next step in building a community around its brand.
- It’s part of a wider web3 bet for the company, which has also established its own department for web3 technologies.
See the full post here: https://www.theblock.co/post/216038/for-daos-loreal-nyx?mc_cid=27e4b74946&mc_eid=116e9f337b
Your Strategy Needs a Story
Summary: Business strategy is usually born of a highly rational process, grounded in facts and analysis. Storytelling, often associated with fiction and entertainment, may seem like the antithesis of strategy. But the two are not incompatible. A clever strategy on paper is only the starting point for engaging those who will implement it. Strategies must also be communicated and understood — and they must motivate action. Through stories, mere facts and information are turned into a shared mental model of how the business works and where it is heading. Knowing how to construct such a strategy story as a shared, and evolvable mental model can not only improve implementation but also greatly increase a company’s rate of learning, which can be a key source for competitive advantage in today’s fast-paced world.
Posted on the website for “96 Elephants” in 2016, the above strategy, orchestrated by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), became one of the most successful conservation efforts ever*. The WCS helped convene a coalition of hundreds of zoos, companies, environmental organizations, and individual donors, who succeeded in banning the ivory trade in U.S. and China, passing anti-wildlife trafficking legislation in the U.S., and substantially reducing elephant poaching.
“It’s inconceivable that we could successfully execute our strategy to protect wildlife and wild places worldwide without creating and using powerful stories,” says John Calvelli, executive vice president of public affairs at WCS. ...
See the full story here: https://hbr.org/2023/02/your-strategy-needs-a-story
- Developed in collaboration with NEW INC, Ancestral Archives by artist Josie Williams brings historically significant Black leaders to present-day communities
- Installation will be exhibited as part of the annual SXSW Art Program from March 10-17, 2023 in Austin, TX
- EY to host panel discussion, "Arts Keeping Humans at the Center of the Metaverse" 10 a.m. CT, March 13, 2023
... "Ancestral Archives is an important expression of art, technology and social equity that leans into the works of revolutionary Black historical figures to inspire reflection, conversation, learning and action so we can better understand and connect with each other. This kind of work is essential as the boundaries between our physical and virtual worlds increasingly become blurred." ...
See the full story here: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ey-metaverse-lab-to-celebrate-black-leaders-with-ai-enabled-metaverse-art-installation-301756480.html
WGA asks members to vote on key demands in bargaining with studios
... Among the bargaining demands: The union wants increased contributions to the union’s health and pension plan; higher minimum pay across all categories; and standardized compensation, whether content is released in theaters or on streaming platforms.
The union also is seeking to extend span protection, which restricts the amount of time writers can spend working on a single episode of TV; and to regulate the use of material produced using artificial intelligence or similar technologies. ...
Designing Immersive Gatherings With Zach Morris of Third Rail Projects
PhilNote: from Atlas Obscura, this class could be good for continuing education and job enrichment. This course includes four total sessions each lasting 1.5 hours. $215 enrollment. The class is run multiple times.
What We’ll Do
In this 4-part workshop, explore the ethos and attributes of immersive experiences and begin designing one of your own.
... In this four-part seminar, acclaimed immersive theater director and experience designer Zach Morris of Third Rail Projects will walk us through the elements of immersive gatherings and guide us through the process of designing our own. Drawing inspiration and practical points from past notable immersive events, we’ll delve into the details of creating such gatherings—focusing on environment, interaction, the experiential arc, and guest-centered design. Each week, Zach will offer optional exercises geared to help participants envision and develop their own concepts outside of class. This course is designed for everyone; whether you’d like to design a celebration or social event, create a memorable product launch or branded event, make a conference more engaging, or fold elements into a performance—this class will offer something meaningful for you and for those you're gathering. ...
See the full course description here; https://www.atlasobscura.com/experiences/immersive-gatherings-course?utm_source=AO+Courses+Master+List&utm_campaign=43209f2d5a-Courses_Monthly_March_02_27_2023&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7d38d308f2-43209f2d5a-72092269&mc_cid=43209f2d5a&mc_eid=e9e809d5f7
Augmented reality headset enables users to see hidden objects
MIT researchers have built an augmented reality headset that gives the wearer X-ray vision.
The headset combines computer vision and wireless perception to automatically locate a specific item that is hidden from view, perhaps inside a box or under a pile, and then guide the user to retrieve it.
The system utilizes radio frequency (RF) signals, which can pass through common materials like cardboard boxes, plastic containers, or wooden dividers, to find hidden items that have been labeled with RFID tags, which reflect signals sent by an RF antenna.
The headset directs the wearer as they walk through a room toward the location of the item, which shows up as a transparent sphere in the augmented reality (AR) interface. Once the item is in the user’s hand, the headset, called X-AR, verifies that they have picked up the correct object.
See the full story here: https://news.mit.edu/2023/augmented-reality-headset-enables-users-see-hidden-objects-0227
VERSES Announces Next-Generation AI A “General Intelligent Agent”
... GIA, a General Intelligent Agent, is a next-generation personal AI assistant that is designed to learn about its users in order to better organize, manage, and optimize their digital life. GIA, the smart interface to the digital world, is a voice and text-based digital assistant that operates under a user’s direction and on their behalf, searching, filtering, and summarizing information across multiple data sources. With unique features like automating data organization, predictive reasoning, and the ability to learn over time, GIA is poised to become the first intelligent all-in-one solution for anyone seeking a smarter way to organize, manage, and automate their personal and professional activities. ...
See the full story here: https://www.yahoo.com/now/verses-announces-next-generation-ai-135900909.html
The Unexpected Winners Of The ChatGPT Generative AI Revolution
... Getting GAI systems to produce exactly what you are looking for with all of the generation conditions met is not easy. There are many ways to improve the accuracy algorithmically without having access to the prior experimental data. And the power of the algorithmic approach including simulation and zero-shot learning should not be underestimated. Those, who think that AI is all about training data, and, believe me, most pharma company executives do, should refer to the Infinite Monkey Theorem. If you take the infinite number of monkeys with the infinite number of typewriters, eventually, you will get every book that is ever written. And, by extension, if you can efficiently train these monkeys to produce accuate and useful output, you can potentially generate even better books. ...
But someone needs to validate the output. And while it is possible to use both humans and algorithms to evaluate the quality of the text, voice, and images, when it comes to biology, chemical, and experimental physics data, only algorithms trained on this specific data and, in some cases, expert humans, can be good arbiters for generative AI. This makes very specialized high-quality data and expert humans very valuable for training of generative AI systems. ...
The value of high-quality human-generated content, especially the content rich in verified facts, just increased exponentially. ...
The developers of generative AI will require high-quality data and expert humans for training of the generative and predictive models as well as for benchmarking and validation. And since much of this content is paywalled, it is very likely that the following publishers will be the greatest winners in the generative AI revolution. ...
See the full story here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexzhavoronkov/2023/02/23/the-unexpected-winners-of-the-chatgpt-generative-ai-revolution/?sh=3ddd7c6d12b0
‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking
When “Everything Everywhere All At Once’s” visual effects artist Evan Halleck was working on the rock universe scene, he brought in cutting-edge artificial intelligence tools from Runway — such as the green screen tool that removes the background from images. “It was cutting things out better than my human eye was, and it gave me a clean mat that I could use for other things.”
From the rise of deepfake technology to AI being used to generate scripts, AI is on the rise. It’s faster, cheaper and Halleck says, on a film like the Oscar-nominated A24 film, “Rotoscoping, in my opinion, has been a very slow and painful process. So, it was nice to automate things.” ...
While AI has come into the conversation lately, the technology has been around for a while. “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker made an entire filmusing a deepfake Donald Trump last year. “They’re paving the way. People might be freaked out, but there are going to be a ton of incredible use cases of it and there’s probably going to be some bad things to come, but that comes with any new technology.” ...
See the full story here: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hollywood-2-0-rise-ai-233902392.html
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