Your Majesty — 10 things
17 March 2023 · Issue #277

Hey ,

It’s ALL going on this week, with Open AI releasing GPT-4, the Midjourney 5 release offering hyper-realistic images, Facebook laying off thousands, SVB - the bank for tech startups - collapsing and SXSW in full swing, live out of Austin. AI naturally is the hot topic across all of our favourite news outlets and we’re even talking about it ourselves at an event.

This afternoon, Technical Director Kasper Kuijpers spoke at ‘The Robots are Coming’, an event in London run by agency community Agency Hackers. We had the opportunity to share our point of view on AI in the creative industry and discuss with other agency leaders about how we’re using it to fuel creativity and help our clients. Follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn for the key takeaways. 

Plenty of great reading material below, from tech and design to eating dinner with strangers - enjoy. 

⚔️ Your Majesty 

'Ghost in the Machine', by our Producer Sunni @hypercampina 

 

1. OpenAI releases GPT-4, a multimodal AI that it claims is state-of-the-art


OpenAI’s latest release is available to paying users, and has been hiding in plain sight, powering big brands' latest AI capabilities.
 

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2. Ten Charts That Capture How the World Is Changing


Insights into how tech has changed our lives, plus user experience lessons from our fave green owl, Duolingo. 
 

Check out the charts

 

3. SVB Collapse Simply Explained


The collapse of the startup-focused bank has caused total disruption in the US tech and innovation economy. But how did it all happen?! 
 

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4. Google announces AI features in Gmail, Docs, and more to rival Microsoft


Soon you’ll be able to access handy AI features directly from the Google suite, enabling you to quickly generate images and text. 
 

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5. Internet Computers


Is it time for the OS (operating system) to retire and for us to live seamlessly from the cloud? The Browser Company’s CEO Josh Miller certainly thinks so.
 

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6. Meta ditches NFTs on Instagram and Facebook in Metaverse reversal


After announcing its support for NFTs on its platforms at SXSW ‘22, Meta is winding these efforts down due to low demand this last year. 
 

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7. Wikipedia + AI = truth? DuckDuckGo hopes so with new answerbot


Hope sure is an interesting strategy: “The company admits that DuckAssist might make stuff up but hopes it will happen rarely”. 
 

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8. Spotify’s new design is part TikTok, part Instagram, and part YouTube


Pushing more than just music is at the heart of Spotify’s ongoing strategy to help audio creators get discovered through new design features. 
 

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9. Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong?


A call for greater emphasis on ethical considerations and social responsibility when it comes to design thinking.
 

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10. The Radical Act of Eating With Strangers


The pandemic hit social circles hard, so in a time when reconnecting with people in real life, what could be better than meeting new people over dinner? 
 

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