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In Japan, an artificial intelligence has been appointed creative director
- edu 11y agoTL;DR: In Japan, an advertising agency makes up they have an AI to appear in news.
- xbmcuser 11y agoThey are advertising their services by showing how good they are.
- daveguy 11y agoAn advertising company in Japan has "appointed" a robot (that they developed? really?) as their creative director. What it actually does: search advertisement databases to give suggestions. Calling it an "employee" is a publicity stunt.
- crystalmeph 11y agoYeah, it sounds like this is just a tool they're really getting a lot of use out of, so they have a giant "in-joke" that it's actually an employee.
- ansible 11y agoI'd like to see them pay income taxes for this 'employee' and do all the other paperwork needed.
- ihsw 11y agoThat employee would need a corresponding Social Security Tax Number System (SSTNS) number, and only those with resident registration are eligible. I'm not sure the government wants to collect taxes on an individual that doesn't use any social services. It would be very strange.
- ekianjo 11y agoSeriously this is just a major PR piece of an article. I work with McCann in Japan and their ways of working are far from modern.
- Apocryphon 11y agoIn Japan, a cat has been appointed as a railway VP [1], and a cartoon robot cat has been appointed as a cultural ambassador [2]. Their management culture simply isn't very anthropocentric. [1] http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21656623-tama-stationmaster-kishi-station-and-vice-president-wakayama-electric-railway-died http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21656623-tama-station... [2] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/23716592/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/t/japan-appoints-cartoon-ambassador/#.Vxe0SWOTXow http://www.nbcnews.com/id/23716592/ns/world_news-asia_pacifi...
- krapp 11y agoThere really seems to be nothing Japan won't anthropomorphize to make a quick buck[0][1]. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuru-chara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuru-chara [1]http://en.rocketnews24.com/2016/01/19/toyota-goes-full-otaku-makes-40-kawaii-mascots-for-every-part-of-the-car/ http://en.rocketnews24.com/2016/01/19/toyota-goes-full-otaku...
- Apocryphon 11y agoWe live in a pretty wacky future. [τ] [τ] http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dominos-app-featuring-hatsune-miku http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dominos-app-featuring-hatsune-...
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoWhats funny is that on "Mad Men", McCann was one plot line generator as was the big hulking IBM machine at about the same time. If I understood everything, the IBM machine was part of why McCann was interested in SCDP.