Culture & Code

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Culture & Code

Culture & Code explores Human Creativity and Artificial Intelligence. What is it? What does it mean? Aimed at professionals and the casually curious in media & entertainment, marketing, and communications, Culture & Code explores innovation happening across storytelling and generative AI to help creatives imagine better and create smarter.

  1. SEP 12

    Responsible AI: Crafting the Future of Creative Content

    This show features a conversation with Noelle Russell, a multi-award winning technologist and the founder and Chief AI Officer at the AI Leadership Institute. With a career that spans leading roles in tech giants like Amazon, Microsoft, Accenture and IBM, to name a few, Noelle has been at the forefront of A.I. innovation. She's built over 100 conversational A.I. applications that have millions of users and has worked on customer projects worth billions of dollars. Noelle and I will focus on the intersection of innovation and ethics for generative A.I. as it applies to creative marketing and media professionals. We're in this moment when I can craft amazing stories and accelerate creative design at blistering speed. And yet the world is simultaneously more vulnerable to deepfakes, misinformation, bias and the death of privacy. And so balancing innovation and ethics isn't some esoteric academic subject.

    38 min

  2. AUG 2

    Digital Hollywood's Virtual Humans: The Impact of Advanced Intelligence and Technology Panel

    Virtual Humans: The Impact of Advanced Intelligence and Technology The integration of advanced intelligence and technology into retail and consumer-facing experiences is revolutionizing the way we shop, interact with brands and their online support, and make purchasing decisions. As virtual humans and AI-powered systems become more sophisticated, they're transforming customer service, product recommendations, and even in-store navigation. This panel will explore the current state of the art in virtual human technology and its impact on the retail and complex online interaction, as well as examine future trends and challenges in this rapidly evolving field.

    51 min

  3. JUL 24

    The Rise of Digital Twins: Exploring the Virtual Human Economy

    This show is a conversation with Natalie Monbiot was head of Strategy for Hour One, an AI avatar and synthetic video company based in Israel. Natalie focuses on synthetic media and the virtual human economy, in which real people create and profit from their digital selves. Natalie and I are going to explore the virtual human economy through the examples of AI twins made for business leaders like Reid Hoffman and Jensen Huang. We'll touch on how AI twins are poised to transform life, work, and play as people not only offload tasks onto them, but expand their possibilities with them. We'll drill into what the virtual human economy could mean for content creators, and where listeners can learn more about this burgeoning field.

    38 min

  4. JUL 17

    The Future of Visual Storytelling: AI Tools in Creative Collaboration

    This show is a conversation with Jose Aragon, an international fashion photographer and AI artist based in Madrid, Spain. As his work has appeared in magazines like Elle, Vogue Italia, Vogue UK and Vogue Japan, and was most recently featured in Synthetix, Brazil's leading journal for art and artificial intelligence. Jose and I collaborated on a generative AI story project called the Naruto Whirlpools, which will make his public debut later in 2024. We'll draw a lot of this conversation from that experience, talking about how two people from different creative disciplines work together in the context of generative AI. We're coming together with different skills and mentalities, but with the common thread of using AI to do things we couldn't do before.

    40 min

  5. JUL 10

    From ChatGPT to Digital Clones: Exploring the AI Revolution in Art and Media

    This show features Helen Todd, who focuses on AI and creativity. She's not just talking about the future. Helen Tod is building it via her podcast, newsletter and YouTube channel called Creativity Squared. In this show, Helen and I will explore why the nexus of creativity and AI is such a critical area to cover from both a professional and a social point of view. We'll drill into what people mean when they discuss creative uses of AI, including digital cloning, storytelling and the next iteration of the metaverse. So you put all that together, and you've got a spicy cocktail for talking about the future of creative work in an AI environment.

    40 min

  6. JUN 27

    AI, Storytelling, and Cybersecurity: Navigating the Future of Technology

    This shows a conversation with Kate Baucherel, who is a speaker, author and consultant specializing in blockchain, crypto and emerging technologies. Kate has spoken at events across the world and online as a keynote, a panelist, a mentor and chair, and regularly appears on BBC radio and TV as a blockchain expert to provide straightforward commentary on news stories. Kate lectures at Teesside University in both the International Business School and the School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies.

    34 min

  7. JUN 20

    Storytelling with AI: Exploring the Future of Interactive Narratives

    This is a conversation with Guy Gadney, of charisma AI, a company that enables rapid creation of story driven experiences with digital avatars for web, mobile and VR platforms. Charisma AI has collaborated with Hollywood studios, global brands and universities, delivering award winning campaigns and educational content built on their ethical AI technology stack. We'll dive into creativity and technology, the cutting edge work at charisma AI, and his views for the future of storytelling powered by AI.

    31 min

  8. JUN 13

    From Idea to Studio-Quality Audio: Unleashing Creativity with Oskar Serrander

    This is a conversation with Oskar Serrander, a co-founder of Wondercraft.AI, an AI powered creative platform dedicated to audio. Wondercraft launched in 2024 to democratize audio Oskar and I will explore the intersection of AI and audio through the lens of Wondercraft. We'll focus on the obstacles and opportunities that inspired his launch, and how AI helped make that dream become a reality. Then we'll move to the bigger picture, which is how AI audio will impact podcasting and other media sectors going forward. We'll wrap up by covering things that audio creators and publishers can do today to help thrive in that new environment.

    32 min
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Culture & Code explores Human Creativity and Artificial Intelligence. What is it? What does it mean? Aimed at professionals and the casually curious in media & entertainment, marketing, and communications, Culture & Code explores innovation happening across storytelling and generative AI to help creatives imagine better and create smarter.

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  • Creator
    The Augmented City
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    30
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2023 All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Culture & Code

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