In Brief: AI, Big Data and kids
Biometrics and machine learning may be a boon to business – a big threat to kids.
Biometrics and machine learning may be a boon to business – a big threat to kids.
The News Gods took slight pity and delivered one modest piece of news today: an $8 million Series A from Glue, an AI-driven system that self-generates loyalty programs for small businesses. Fairly cool and highly useful, since few small companies have the skills to do that for themselves.
The AppsFlyer-Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) survey asked: 1) How aware marketers are of Apple’s Identifier for Advertising (IDFA) changes that will require apps to get consumer consent before transmitting data to third parties, and 2) how problematic those changes would be. While 37% reported not being familiar at all or not being very familiar with the changes prior to the survey; 56% of all thought the impact would be negative, but of those already familiar, 73% thought it would have a strong negative impact.
BetterUp and Stanford Social Media Lab define workslop as “AI-generated content that looks good, but lacks substance.” Their survey of 1,150 full-time desk workers in the U.S. finds that 40% received workslop in the last month, costing $186 per month per employee. For a 10,000-person company, that’s $9 million annually.