What is the role of Ai Agents in the creative process? Who better to ask than someone who seems to be churning out creative agents for design & advertising every few months! Ali Madad has created 'Agentcy' - a collection of frameworks and approaches for multi-agent systems across: Health, Politics, Everyday (Life) and Creative. GPT's are just one f…

1984 saw the birth of Lürzer's Archive - considered by many for the last 30 years to be the gold standard of referencing award winning campaigns in one place. 2023 saw the birth of adaily.co - a AI-powered marketing researcher with a bank of 2300+ award winning campaigns (2019-2023) and accessible in 14 languages. Will Adaily give Lurzers it's East…

Hear about Choppity's journey from their founder Zara Anita Paul, and how she and her co-founder Aaron first started with a graphic design app, before pivoting to a e-com merchandise platform and finally onto Choppity. They've gone from $0 to $50,000 ARR in just the space of one year! Zara is the founder and CEO of Choppity and was at Durham Univer…

We're at a time where Ai is everywhere; but the use of Ai in 'creative communities' (beyond image generation and some in music and art), isn't as prevalent. Neol is unique here in how it seems to be replicating what are human creative service experiences and workflows, with the help of Ai. Ai Agents mimic the kind of interaction you might have othe…

Parametric architecture has been around for a while, but new explorations with Ai by architects like Alessandra Condello are really taking it to the next level. So much so that Alessandra's work has been showcased by the official DALL-E Open Ai page multiple times! Alessandra is an architect, artist and photographer from Avezzano, Italy, about an h…

Marc Lee (born 1969) is a Swiss artist. He uses contemporary art as a vehicle to continuously redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us. He is experimenting with information and communication technologies and within his contemporary art practice, he reflects critically creative, cultural, social, ecological and political aspects. In thi…

On International Yoga Day, our latest conversation between Muralidhar Somisetty, founder of YogiFi - Smart Yoga Mat and Karn Malhotra brings you a Ai Yoga Mat that takes this 5,000 year old Indian practice into the world of GenerativeAi They discuss: - Creating a dataset around movement - Co-creating the experience with yoga practitioners - A perso…

What's happening with Ai in the performing arts? Ai Music has been around for a while - but what about Ai in Dance? Nicole Seiler (https://lnkd.in/g6DUK9JS) has been exploring the space of video/images/installations and choreography for the last two decades. Always at the edge of 'what's next?' - Nicole's latest production, 'Human in the Loop' expl…

In the middle of this Ai hype cycle, it's important to pause, reflect and ask critical questions. Who better to do this with than an anthropologist! Michiel Baas is presently a senior research fellow with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, was previously a research fellow at National University of Singapore and co-ordinator wit…

In this conversation, between Karn Malhotra and Pontus Wärnestål, we cover 'Ai & Design Services'. Pontus is the Head of Ai Design & Innovation at eghed and Deputy Professor at Halmstad University, as also the author of the new book, 'Designing Ai-Powered Services' (link to buy in comments) In 2018, Pontus also introduced the 'Augmented Services Ca…

Given the lack of clarity around Ai's impact on creative and advertising agencies, we felt it was important to speak with someone from the agency world who has been exploring creative-tech for a long time. And so, meet Manolis Perrakis, Innovation Director at Hello!WeAreSocial, Singapore and before this a Creative Technologist at DDB as also the He…

An artist who's expression is through Ai and computational technologies, Harshit has been creating art with Ai as his 'material' for nearly 10 years now - well before the GenerativeAi craze of the last 6+ months. Harshit speaks about his experiments with Ai, his latest work at India Habitat Centre, inspiration from fellow Ai Artist's and how studen…

The global podcasting market stands at $23.7 Billion as of 2023 and projected to 5x this number by 2030. While the market potential is huge, 'podfading' happens with as many as 50% of all new podcasts - one key reason is it takes just too long to edit and manage the production side of a podcast. (we feel this pain!) Here to help you auto-edit, opti…

Here to disrupt the $200 Billion global e-learning & learning and development markets with their Ai based course creation platform is Mindsmith. High quality content creation that can take upto 200 hours is down to 2 minutes with Mindsmith. In this short, yet engaging 15min conversation, Karn Malhotra speaks with Mindsmith's co-founder Ethan Webb a…

An engaging conversation with the founder of Illustroke.com about the motivation behind creating the world's first vector GenerativeAi platform, his experience, team and what he thinks about the GAI space now and in time to comeBy Karn Malhotra

Can Ai drive highly efficient fashion supply chains towards even greater efficiencies? Do brands want to do this? How does this impact small businesses? What is the impact of this push towards sustainability on low-income families and their jobs? Tune into a really engaging conversation with Chu Wong, country co-ordinator for FashionRevolution.org …

In the last year, 'Emotion Driven Content' has been at the top of every content marketers mind. Can an Ai engine help lighten this load? Instoried.com with it's solid team, $2 Million+ of funding and clients like Kimberly Clarke, TVS Motors & Home Capital seem to think so. In this chat, Sharmin Ali, the CEO & Founder of Instoried.com and i talk abo…

Kicking off the next season through this fantastic chat with Katja Forbes, Managing Director of Designit, about Ai & Design. Should we be worried? What is the role of the designer now and in time to come? We discuss the Augmented Services Canvas that has data at the heart of it as also some data projects that Katja has been personally involved in. …

A short ‘context creator’ for the series. Karn’s awareness about Ai’s impact on the creative industries has come through wanting to answer this question : “How can we automate design? In a way where there is no dependency on complex design tools and you go to the designer only for a high value task.” And if other people have asked similar questions…

Don’t know anything about Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning? Start here. In this conversation, Alan talks to you about the broad landscape of Artificial Intelligence. How has it evolved? Why is everyone talking about it today? Will it really replace everyone? How soon? A published author with his latest book : “Practical Artificial Intell…

There is a lot of talk about Ai with everything – but maybe there’s just as much that can be achieved purely through simple automation? But does automating a creative task devalue it? How do you create hundreds of thousands of customized videos and images in an hour? What does this mean for film makers, video editors and content creators? Hear Sate…

The chat window that pops up when you’re on a website – how sure are you that you’re chatting with a human or an Ai Bot? If you knew incorporating an Ai chatbot will increase sales by 30% - would you replace part of your customer support team? What then will you train this team to do? How does a chatbot mimic human empathy? Is Conversational Ai rel…

Two of the most exciting young artists exploring the marry of Ai & Tech + Art on the Indian Art landscape, both Harshit & Sahej have had a unique journey thus far. Having said that – the clichés of being an artist are still universal – the question of ‘making money through art’ being an ongoing one. A free flowing conversation about everything from…

You visit a typical e-commerce or travel site and choose not to finish a transaction. Soon you start seeing banners of that flight, product, destination on other sites; the accuracy of which seems surprising at times. How does this happen? We know that our ‘social logins’ opt us in to being followed around online. Where and what kind of a role does…

What is happening in the ‘voice tech’ space? What has lead to Siri, Cortana, Google Home, Alexa becoming so integral to peoples’ lives today? The team at Spext actually came up with the idea of the product almost 3 years before pushing the product out – simply because ‘voice data sets’ didn’t exist at the scale needed to create the Ai tech. Now, wi…

In a world where ‘data’ is akin to ‘gold’ today, will not knowing how to code be the designers’ kryptonite? Or is the knowledge designers have in their experience in itself the superpower that they just need to leverage differently in this ‘data age’? Jenna talks you through her journey from being a developer to then going into design to her work w…

You’re on the 18th slide of the presentation. Almost done. And then you realize you’ve missed a category – which means you have to redesign 70% of what you’ve already finished. We’ve all been there. Fortunately – leveraging automation & Ai, Beautiful.ai’s presentation engine solves this exact problem. Engineers simplify creativity. And what’s next …

Music creation, especially classical music, requires a serious amount of passion and technical know-how. Till now the domain of someone pursuing a PHD in Music (two of the Spliqs founding team fit this bill) – is democratizing music creation really possible? And what impact does this have on musicians; both professional and novice? How do you trans…