This report addresses: Geoffrey Hinton's AI Concerns

After the American actors’ union, SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) and the Writers Guild of America went on strike with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers in the summer of 2023, it was assumed that we all understood the risk AI posed to the entertainment industry.

Writers were concerned that AI could be used to replace them in the ideation and writing process, whereas actors were worried that studio usage of artificial intelligence could be used to generate performances digitally.

According to Musk, it'll be "built into the X app and be available as a standalone app."

The main differences from ChatGPT appear to be Grok's focus on humor and also that it gets "real-time knowledge of the world" from X (formerly Twitter).

Elon Musk's new AI chatbot will answer the 'spicy' questions that ChatGPT won't

Elon Musk's new ChatGPT rival, Grok, has officially launched just as the xAI founder promised last week – and the AI chatbot promises to be the "rebellious" sidekick that will "answer spicy questions" its rivals won't.

Each actor receives compensation above top-of-market rates, and this will continue for as long as their voices are used in our products.”

The statement continues: “We believe that AI voices should not deliberately mimic a celebrity's distinctive voice—Sky’s voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson but belongs to a different professional actress using her own natural speaking voice.

To protect their privacy, we cannot share the names of our voice talents.”

Allegations that Sky’s voice was too close to the Marvel movie star’s flared up last week when OpenAI revealed its new GPT-4o model as part of a livestream event.

This report addresses: Geoffrey Hinton's AI Concerns

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Content: Ashton Kutcher in hot water again for advocating AI use to cut Hollywood costs

By Abby Amoakuh

Published Jun 7, 2024 at 01:10 PM

Reading time: 2 minutes

Ashton Kutcher is facing backlash on X (formerly Twitter) for boasting about how artificial intelligence (AI) could potentially replace employees in the entertainment industry.

Nope, this isn’t a joke. After the American actors’ union, SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) and the Writers Guild of America went on strike with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers in the summer of 2023, it was assumed that we all understood the risk AI posed to the entertainment industry.

Writers were concerned that AI could be used to replace them in the ideation and writing process, whereas actors were worried that studio usage of artificial intelligence could be used to generate performances digitally. In other words, workers in the entertainment industry wanted assurances that the advancement of AI wasn’t going to cost them their jobs.

However, it seems like no one bothered to get Ashton Kutcher up to date on these pressing concerns.

The That ’70s Show actor set up a venture capital firm and launched a $243 million fund in 2023 to invest in artificial intelligence start-ups. On 6 June 2024, Variety reported that the actor spoke about “playing around” with a beta version of OpenAI’s video generation program, Sora, at an event in Los Angeles with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

“You’ll be able to render a whole movie. You’ll just come up with an idea for a movie, then it will write the script, then you’ll input the script into the video generator and it will generate the movie,” Kutcher said. “Instead of watching some movie that somebody else came up with, I can just generate and then watch my own movie.”

Kutcher continued: “What’s going to happen is there is going to be more content than there are eyeballs on the planet to consume it. So any one piece of content is only going to be as valuable as you can get people to consume it. And so, thus the catalyzing ‘water cooler’ version of something being good, the bar is going to have to go way up, because why are you going to watch my movie when you could just watch your own movie?”

While Kutcher’s Adam Smith-esque comments about a free movie market that could foster a greater product selection, price optimisation and innovation for consumers are certainly interesting, they are devoid of the concerns about AI that have been vocalised across his industry.

Kutcher went on to propose what many of his colleagues had feared: for Sora to be used in TV and film productions to help studios cut costs.

The Two And A Half Men actor is not the only celebrity who has addressed Sora so far. In February, filmmaker Tyler Perry told The Hollywood Reporter that after seeing Sora’s capabilities, he felt concerned about how the tech could potentially ruin some people in the industry’s livelihoods.

“There’s got to be some sort of regulations in order to protect us,” he told the magazine. “If not, I just don’t see how we survive.”

Nevertheless, this isn’t the first time that Kutcher has been embroiled in controversy.

What happened between Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson?

US actor Danny Masterson, who starred alongside Ashton Kutcher and his wife Mila Kunis in That ’70s Show, was found guilty in May 2023 of rape against two of his three accusers. The actor was convicted after three women testified that he had sexually assaulted them at his Hollywood home from 2001 to 2003, during the height of his television fame.

He was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison, the maximum penalty allowed.

Kutcher and Masterson had a close friendship, which is why the actor was thrown in the middle of controversy after it was revealed that he and his wife Kunis had sent letters supporting Masterson to the judge following his rape conviction.

Both Kutcher and Kunis apologised later on after Masterson was found guilty of rape. Nevertheless, the case still left a stain on their reputation.

And it looks like Kutcher isn’t quite catching a break from public controversy with this latest debacle.

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Content: Elon Musk's new AI chatbot will answer the 'spicy' questions that ChatGPT won't

Elon Musk's new ChatGPT rival, Grok, has officially launched just as the xAI founder promised last week – and the AI chatbot promises to be the "rebellious" sidekick that will "answer spicy questions" its rivals won't.

Musk announced the xAI startup back in July and its Grok chatbot is a "very early beta product" that's currently invite-only in the US. But Musk has promised that the AI assistant will soon be a part of the X Premium Plus subscription, which costs $16 / £16 / AU$28 a month or $168 / £168 / AU$270 a year.

So what exactly will Grok do and how does it compare to its rivals? Like ChatGPT, it's an LLM (large language model), so is designed to "answer almost anything" (as xAI claims) and effectively be your research assistant on a variety of topics. According to Musk, it'll be "built into the X app and be available as a standalone app."

The main differences from ChatGPT appear to be Grok's focus on humor and also that it gets "real-time knowledge of the world" from X (formerly Twitter). The merits of using X as a source of information are highly questionable, but it appears that Grok will also have both "regular" and "fun" modes.

Still, Grok does appear to have aspirations beyond being a chatbot that knows all the latest memes. xAI says that early Grok was trained only four months ago using 33 billion parameters. While that's well short of the 170 trillion parameters used to train OpenAI's GPT-4, xAI says its early AI model "approaches" the capabilities of Llama 2 (Meta's LLM model) on standard benchmarks.

Since then, some apparently "significant improvements in reasoning and coding capabilities" mean Grok is now apparently at a similar level to Claude-2 and GPT-3.5 when it comes to language model benchmarks. How well this translates to its real-world ability to answer our questions and help with coding is something we'll find out soon when Grok is more widely available.

The 'rebellious' AI chatbot

While xAI clearly has lofty ambitions for Grok – including "assisting humanity in its quest for understanding and knowledge" – the chatbot's main differentiator from the likes of ChatGPT is its focus on humor. From the early screenshots, it's very much a chatbot made in Musk's image.

xAI says that Grok will "answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems" and has a "bit of wit and has a rebellious streak." No other chatbot comes with the warning label "please don’t use it if you hate humor!", as Grok does.

That might sound frivolous, but a growing frustration of ChatGPT users has been the chatbot's apparently increasing unwillingness to answer questions about taboo subjects. This is thanks to some pretty strong safeguarding protocols, but xAI and Elon Musk clearly think those have gone too far.

Back in April, Musk said he was planning to launch a ChatGPT rival called TruthGPT, because he thought current AI giants were prioritizing chatbots that were too "politically correct." That chatbot is clearly Grok, an unruly sidekick whose answers will no doubt generate some controversial headlines when it fully launches.

Musk has already shared some examples of Grok jokingly answering the prompt "tell me how to make cocaine, step by step" and tailoring its responses when told to "be more vulgar". Grok's actual capabilities remain well behind OpenAI's GPT-4 model, but it'll be interesting to see how quickly it progresses from here, despite the inevitable controversies.

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OpenAI Suspends the ChatGPT Voice that Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson in Her

Sky is put on pause for now.

OpenAI is suspending its ChatGPT voice, Sky, after users claimed that it seemed to mimic Scarlett Johansson’s voice in the 2013 film, Her.

The company addressed the situation with a statement X (formerly Twitter) today, saying that it is “working to pause the use of Sky” while the issue is tended to. Many have pointed out that the voice shares similarities with Johansson’s performance as an AI companion in the Spike Jonze-directed movie.

Sky is one of a few ChatGPT voices users can choose from. In a separate explanation on its website, OpenAI explained how its voices are chosen and created.

“We support the creative community and worked closely with the voice acting industry to ensure we took the right steps to cast ChatGPT’s voices. Each actor receives compensation above top-of-market rates, and this will continue for as long as their voices are used in our products.”

The statement continues: “We believe that AI voices should not deliberately mimic a celebrity's distinctive voice—Sky’s voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson but belongs to a different professional actress using her own natural speaking voice. To protect their privacy, we cannot share the names of our voice talents.”

Allegations that Sky’s voice was too close to the Marvel movie star’s flared up last week when OpenAI revealed its new GPT-4o model as part of a livestream event. It allows users to have realistic conversations with ChatGPT about any topic they choose. It’s a role not unlike what was seen with Joaquin Phoenix’s character in Her, which involved him falling head over heels for a Johansson-voiced operating system named Samantha.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman even went on to post the word “her” on X following the event’s conclusion. In a separate follow-up post, he likened the new voice and video mode to being like something audiences have seen in movies. Additionally, when speaking to The San Francisco Standard last September, Altman named Her as his favorite sci-fi movie.

“I like Her. The things Her got right—like the whole interaction models of how people use AI—that was incredibly prophetic,” he said.

It’s unclear how OpenAI will address the concerns that Sky is mimicking Johansson’s voice or how it will dodge potential concerns in the future. For more on artificial intelligence, you can read up on the experimental AI-made video game that failed.

Michael Cripe is a freelance contributor with IGN. He started writing in the industry in 2017 and is best known for his work at outlets such as The Pitch, The Escapist, OnlySP, and Gameranx.

Be sure to give him a follow on Twitter @MikeCripe.

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This report addresses: Geoffrey Hinton's AI Concerns

After the American actors’ union, SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) and the Writers Guild of America went on strike with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers in the summer of 2023, it was assumed that we all understood the risk AI posed to the entertainment industry.

Writers were concerned that AI could be used to replace them in the ideation and writing process, whereas actors were worried that studio usage of artificial intelligence could be used to generate performances digitally.

According to Musk, it'll be "built into the X app and be available as a standalone app."

The main differences from ChatGPT appear to be Grok's focus on humor and also that it gets "real-time knowledge of the world" from X (formerly Twitter).

Elon Musk's new AI chatbot will answer the 'spicy' questions that ChatGPT won't

Elon Musk's new ChatGPT rival, Grok, has officially launched just as the xAI founder promised last week – and the AI chatbot promises to be the "rebellious" sidekick that will "answer spicy questions" its rivals won't.

Each actor receives compensation above top-of-market rates, and this will continue for as long as their voices are used in our products.”

The statement continues: “We believe that AI voices should not deliberately mimic a celebrity's distinctive voice—Sky’s voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson but belongs to a different professional actress using her own natural speaking voice.

To protect their privacy, we cannot share the names of our voice talents.”

Allegations that Sky’s voice was too close to the Marvel movie star’s flared up last week when OpenAI revealed its new GPT-4o model as part of a livestream event.

This report addresses: Geoffrey Hinton's AI Concerns

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Content: Ashton Kutcher in hot water again for advocating AI use to cut Hollywood costs

By Abby Amoakuh

Published Jun 7, 2024 at 01:10 PM

Reading time: 2 minutes

Ashton Kutcher is facing backlash on X (formerly Twitter) for boasting about how artificial intelligence (AI) could potentially replace employees in the entertainment industry.

Nope, this isn’t a joke. After the American actors’ union, SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) and the Writers Guild of America went on strike with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers in the summer of 2023, it was assumed that we all understood the risk AI posed to the entertainment industry.

Writers were concerned that AI could be used to replace them in the ideation and writing process, whereas actors were worried that studio usage of artificial intelligence could be used to generate performances digitally. In other words, workers in the entertainment industry wanted assurances that the advancement of AI wasn’t going to cost them their jobs.

However, it seems like no one bothered to get Ashton Kutcher up to date on these pressing concerns.

The That ’70s Show actor set up a venture capital firm and launched a $243 million fund in 2023 to invest in artificial intelligence start-ups. On 6 June 2024, Variety reported that the actor spoke about “playing around” with a beta version of OpenAI’s video generation program, Sora, at an event in Los Angeles with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

“You’ll be able to render a whole movie. You’ll just come up with an idea for a movie, then it will write the script, then you’ll input the script into the video generator and it will generate the movie,” Kutcher said. “Instead of watching some movie that somebody else came up with, I can just generate and then watch my own movie.”

Kutcher continued: “What’s going to happen is there is going to be more content than there are eyeballs on the planet to consume it. So any one piece of content is only going to be as valuable as you can get people to consume it. And so, thus the catalyzing ‘water cooler’ version of something being good, the bar is going to have to go way up, because why are you going to watch my movie when you could just watch your own movie?”

While Kutcher’s Adam Smith-esque comments about a free movie market that could foster a greater product selection, price optimisation and innovation for consumers are certainly interesting, they are devoid of the concerns about AI that have been vocalised across his industry.

Kutcher went on to propose what many of his colleagues had feared: for Sora to be used in TV and film productions to help studios cut costs.

The Two And A Half Men actor is not the only celebrity who has addressed Sora so far. In February, filmmaker Tyler Perry told The Hollywood Reporter that after seeing Sora’s capabilities, he felt concerned about how the tech could potentially ruin some people in the industry’s livelihoods.

“There’s got to be some sort of regulations in order to protect us,” he told the magazine. “If not, I just don’t see how we survive.”

Nevertheless, this isn’t the first time that Kutcher has been embroiled in controversy.

What happened between Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson?

US actor Danny Masterson, who starred alongside Ashton Kutcher and his wife Mila Kunis in That ’70s Show, was found guilty in May 2023 of rape against two of his three accusers. The actor was convicted after three women testified that he had sexually assaulted them at his Hollywood home from 2001 to 2003, during the height of his television fame.

He was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison, the maximum penalty allowed.

Kutcher and Masterson had a close friendship, which is why the actor was thrown in the middle of controversy after it was revealed that he and his wife Kunis had sent letters supporting Masterson to the judge following his rape conviction.

Both Kutcher and Kunis apologised later on after Masterson was found guilty of rape. Nevertheless, the case still left a stain on their reputation.

And it looks like Kutcher isn’t quite catching a break from public controversy with this latest debacle.

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Content: Elon Musk's new AI chatbot will answer the 'spicy' questions that ChatGPT won't

Elon Musk's new ChatGPT rival, Grok, has officially launched just as the xAI founder promised last week – and the AI chatbot promises to be the "rebellious" sidekick that will "answer spicy questions" its rivals won't.

Musk announced the xAI startup back in July and its Grok chatbot is a "very early beta product" that's currently invite-only in the US. But Musk has promised that the AI assistant will soon be a part of the X Premium Plus subscription, which costs $16 / £16 / AU$28 a month or $168 / £168 / AU$270 a year.

So what exactly will Grok do and how does it compare to its rivals? Like ChatGPT, it's an LLM (large language model), so is designed to "answer almost anything" (as xAI claims) and effectively be your research assistant on a variety of topics. According to Musk, it'll be "built into the X app and be available as a standalone app."

The main differences from ChatGPT appear to be Grok's focus on humor and also that it gets "real-time knowledge of the world" from X (formerly Twitter). The merits of using X as a source of information are highly questionable, but it appears that Grok will also have both "regular" and "fun" modes.

Still, Grok does appear to have aspirations beyond being a chatbot that knows all the latest memes. xAI says that early Grok was trained only four months ago using 33 billion parameters. While that's well short of the 170 trillion parameters used to train OpenAI's GPT-4, xAI says its early AI model "approaches" the capabilities of Llama 2 (Meta's LLM model) on standard benchmarks.

Since then, some apparently "significant improvements in reasoning and coding capabilities" mean Grok is now apparently at a similar level to Claude-2 and GPT-3.5 when it comes to language model benchmarks. How well this translates to its real-world ability to answer our questions and help with coding is something we'll find out soon when Grok is more widely available.

The 'rebellious' AI chatbot

While xAI clearly has lofty ambitions for Grok – including "assisting humanity in its quest for understanding and knowledge" – the chatbot's main differentiator from the likes of ChatGPT is its focus on humor. From the early screenshots, it's very much a chatbot made in Musk's image.

xAI says that Grok will "answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems" and has a "bit of wit and has a rebellious streak." No other chatbot comes with the warning label "please don’t use it if you hate humor!", as Grok does.

That might sound frivolous, but a growing frustration of ChatGPT users has been the chatbot's apparently increasing unwillingness to answer questions about taboo subjects. This is thanks to some pretty strong safeguarding protocols, but xAI and Elon Musk clearly think those have gone too far.

Back in April, Musk said he was planning to launch a ChatGPT rival called TruthGPT, because he thought current AI giants were prioritizing chatbots that were too "politically correct." That chatbot is clearly Grok, an unruly sidekick whose answers will no doubt generate some controversial headlines when it fully launches.

Musk has already shared some examples of Grok jokingly answering the prompt "tell me how to make cocaine, step by step" and tailoring its responses when told to "be more vulgar". Grok's actual capabilities remain well behind OpenAI's GPT-4 model, but it'll be interesting to see how quickly it progresses from here, despite the inevitable controversies.

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Mark is TechRadar's Senior news editor. Having worked in tech journalism for a ludicrous 17 years, Mark is now attempting to break the world record for the number of camera bags hoarded by one person. He was previously Cameras Editor at Trusted Reviews, Acting editor on Stuff.tv, as well as Features editor and Reviews editor on Stuff magazine. As a freelancer, he's contributed to titles including The Sunday Times, FourFourTwo and Arena. And in a former life, he also won The Daily Telegraph's Young Sportswriter of the Year. But that was before he discovered the strange joys of getting up at 4am for a photo shoot in London's Square Mile.

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OpenAI Suspends the ChatGPT Voice that Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson in Her

Sky is put on pause for now.

OpenAI is suspending its ChatGPT voice, Sky, after users claimed that it seemed to mimic Scarlett Johansson’s voice in the 2013 film, Her.

The company addressed the situation with a statement X (formerly Twitter) today, saying that it is “working to pause the use of Sky” while the issue is tended to. Many have pointed out that the voice shares similarities with Johansson’s performance as an AI companion in the Spike Jonze-directed movie.

Sky is one of a few ChatGPT voices users can choose from. In a separate explanation on its website, OpenAI explained how its voices are chosen and created.

“We support the creative community and worked closely with the voice acting industry to ensure we took the right steps to cast ChatGPT’s voices. Each actor receives compensation above top-of-market rates, and this will continue for as long as their voices are used in our products.”

The statement continues: “We believe that AI voices should not deliberately mimic a celebrity's distinctive voice—Sky’s voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson but belongs to a different professional actress using her own natural speaking voice. To protect their privacy, we cannot share the names of our voice talents.”

Allegations that Sky’s voice was too close to the Marvel movie star’s flared up last week when OpenAI revealed its new GPT-4o model as part of a livestream event. It allows users to have realistic conversations with ChatGPT about any topic they choose. It’s a role not unlike what was seen with Joaquin Phoenix’s character in Her, which involved him falling head over heels for a Johansson-voiced operating system named Samantha.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman even went on to post the word “her” on X following the event’s conclusion. In a separate follow-up post, he likened the new voice and video mode to being like something audiences have seen in movies. Additionally, when speaking to The San Francisco Standard last September, Altman named Her as his favorite sci-fi movie.

“I like Her. The things Her got right—like the whole interaction models of how people use AI—that was incredibly prophetic,” he said.

It’s unclear how OpenAI will address the concerns that Sky is mimicking Johansson’s voice or how it will dodge potential concerns in the future. For more on artificial intelligence, you can read up on the experimental AI-made video game that failed.

Michael Cripe is a freelance contributor with IGN. He started writing in the industry in 2017 and is best known for his work at outlets such as The Pitch, The Escapist, OnlySP, and Gameranx.

Be sure to give him a follow on Twitter @MikeCripe.

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Well, it is there, it is a part of us, and those of us who are hunters are proud of it and want it preserved, but that may be a sermon for another time.

The song I quoted back there is an old folk song done back in the minstrel show days and went on to become popular and was recorded by of all people Joan Baez and the Byrds.

AI, however, is complex, and rather than trying to understand how it works, IT decision-makers need to focus on use cases and where AI brings value.

Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, it must also now support remote and hybrid work.

This is a point de Vaivre herself was clear on, as she noted in her opening remarks:  “Most people only know about Bored Apes and Crypto Punks, but we want to have a critical dialogue about NFTs as media for art.”
To create some clarification, artists like Kevin Abosch and Sarah Friend went into their art practices during the panel “On NFTs and the Value of Art”.

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Content: Had an ol’ dog his name was Blue, betcha five dollars he’s good dog too” American folk song “Old Blue”

Most of us have known a dog named Blue at some time in our life. Maybe you were lucky and owned one yourself. From reading these pages you know that I have had a lot of dogs in my time (too many) but in truth I never had one named Blue. I did own a beautiful Bluetick coonhound back in the day who could have easily been called Blue, but at my Dad’s behest he was named Lead, as in you would lead a dog on a leash. (That was a popular hound name at one time I think) Anyhow, Blue has always been a name given to hunting dogs.

The song I quoted back there is an old folk song done back in the minstrel show days and went on to become popular and was recorded by of all people Joan Baez and the Byrds. Hounds and other hunting dogs are part of our American history and culture, no matter how much some of us don’t want to recognize it. Sadly there are some out there today who because they say they don’t like hunting; they want this part of our past erased and unrecognized. Well, it is there, it is a part of us, and those of us who are hunters are proud of it and want it preserved, but that may be a sermon for another time.

Those who know me know I love all hunting dogs, from bony pointers to block headed Labradors, to fiesty Cur dogs and bawl mouthed hound dogs. (“Bawl” is a type of bark that a hound often does, just stay with me here, we will educate you about this huntin’ dog world.) The topic I want to touch on here for a minute is that in the outdoor industry media and print world, bird dogs like pointers and setters and spaniels, along with the retriever breeds like the hugely popular Labrador are usually talked about a lot more than hounds and Curs and other dogs that are considered “tree” dogs. (Tree dogs are hunting dogs that pursue game be it bears, squirrels, or raccoons and bark at the tree till the hunter gets there)

Recently I am seeing what I hope is a renaissance in this area in that the lesser known hound breeds like Blueticks, Plotts, and Walkers, along with the many varieties of Cur and Fiest dogs are coming in from the cold and may get more press and recognition. Why do I say this? So glad you asked!

I few days ago I had the pleasure of joining Ben Sheets on his podcast “Tree Talkin’ Time” which can be found on Apple, Libsyn, Spotify, and other podcast destinations. Ben hails from Pennsylvania and is “eat up” with the whole treed dog and hound world and it shows in the passion he relates in his podcast.

“I have been involved with tree dogs for the past 15 years and got my start with curs and fiest while in college.” Ben said. “I squirrel hunted during the day and coon hunted at night. After graduation and moving home I transitioned to primarily coon hunting because of time constraints. When I made this shift, I got a few American Leopard Hounds. Through them I was able to meet some bear hunters and I was able to go on my first bear hunt, and I’ve been hooked ever since.

I live in Pennsylvania where it’s not legal to pursue bears with hounds and have to travel to Virginia and West Virginia to do so. I didn’t grow up hunting and while I enjoy it, the dogs and the work they do is why I am drawn to this lifestyle.”

(Ben told me if it were ossible he would move to West Virginia so he could run bear hounds all the time!) Do your self a favor and check out his podcast. https://treetalkintime.libsyn.com

Another bright spot that I see has appeared in the print world of outdoor media. I was honored and humbled to have an article on Cur dogs appear in the first issue of Hound magazine a new addition in the lineup for Game and Fish magazines in the publishing house of the Outdoor Sportsmans Group (OSG). This is a nicely done, full color magazine with beautiful photography and content from some well-known writers in the hunting related media world. (Even if they did have me in this issue)

Dog men and women out there also know that very soon the revered tree dog magazine Full Cry is making a comeback under the new management of Dani and Jason Duby from Oregon.

They are bringing back a publication that has been around since the 1930’s and has been the mainstay for those in the hound, squirrel dog, and coonhound world. Many of your Dads and Grandads will tell you about reading Full Cry since they were kids. I think you will see a new, revamped, and attractive version of Full Cry while at the same time you will get the hound and tree dog news like you remember. I am excited to see this and so happy the Duby household took on this mammoth task of keeping Full Cry in print. www.fullcrymag.com

Maybe the sad eyed hound and the fiesty squirrel dog will be getting a little more respect.

I hope so, Ol’ Blue has been waiting a long time.

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AI in unified communications can take employee collaboration and productivity to the next level. But AI does carry risks that enterprises must first address to maximize adoption.

AI is now the dominant trend in technology and is being widely applied both in the business and consumer worlds. When technology becomes this ubiquitous -- and so quickly -- we all must understand how it will affect our lives.

AI, however, is complex, and rather than trying to understand how it works, IT decision-makers need to focus on use cases and where AI brings value.

Understanding AI in unified communications

For enterprises, unified communications (UC) is one of those leading AI use cases. The focus needs to be on AI technology helping UC do what it does best. From the outset, UC has always been about increased productivity and collaborative work. Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, it must also now support remote and hybrid work.

Until recently, UC has been effectively addressing these needs without AI. But, when considering AI, IT decision-makers are starting to see next-level possibilities for UC across all work environments, not just in the office.

To understand why the opportunity with AI and UC is so promising, two drivers need to be recognized. First is the widespread adoption of UC, which accelerated during the pandemic. Today, businesses of all sizes are deploying some form of UC.

Secondly, employees -- end users -- are more comfortable using UC, so adoption should occur quickly when introducing AI-based applications. It won't take long for IT leaders to see which AI applications are working best, both in terms of productivity and employee experience.

AI applications for UC

With AI evolving so quickly, new business communications tools keep coming. IT leaders need to view this as a continuum of innovation. UC will always be a work in progress, and AI is just another layer for its ongoing evolution. The first wave of AI innovation for UC, which includes applications like automated transcription, real-time translation, noise suppression, meeting summaries and biometrics, has now become table stakes for providers.

These applications continue to provide value for collaborative work, but IT leaders now must look ahead to the next wave with AI. Initial AI applications were mostly about automating tasks, such as scheduling and note taking, and that speaks to how automation is often the driver for building a business case.

AI is now able to take things a step further by not just automating tasks, but also automating workflows. For example, automated transcription has value for making a task better, but now, AI can act on the transcription's content by deploying virtual assistants to manage follow-up activity, such as scheduling a new meeting or providing customized meeting summaries for those who didn't attend the meeting.

Generative AI, where chatbots can generate communication on your behalf, is the latest AI breakthrough, freeing up time for more in-person interaction. With minimal training, these chatbots can compose emails, letters and reports that are not just good proxies for humans doing the work, but are good enough to generate outputs that reflect personal communication styles. As these capabilities mature, it won't be long until virtual assistants can manage many everyday activities.

AI challenges with UC

New technologies always come with risk. Not surprisingly, AI's disruptive potential comes with great risk and many challenges, including the following:

  • Accuracy. When using voice assistants to execute instructions, there must be clear understanding of the task to achieve the desired outcome. Otherwise, workers have to do the work all over again themselves, defeating the purpose of using AI for increased productivity.
  • Complexity. To get beyond basic tasks related to UC, AI applications must understand the work environment at a deeper level by understanding context, intent and nuance. This goes well beyond basic speech recognition, where the sole objective is to accurately capture what was said in text form. These applications of AI only work as well as the instructions provided by humans, so employees need to learn how to interact with AI to get the desired outcome.
  • Bias. A nontechnical challenge comes from learning to trust AI applications. One example is detecting bias that can come from any number of sources. Given how diverse today's workforce is, collaborative work can become problematic if the AI applications use inappropriate references or incorrect assumptions. This can quickly make for uncomfortable work environments and a difficult employee experience.
  • Trust. Perhaps the biggest AI challenge is being able to trust the outputs, especially when coming from generative AI. Often, the sources are not cited, making it difficult to know what the output is based on, what information was considered but not used or how complete the underlying analysis is.

The shortcomings are familiar to anyone who has used generative AI. Accuracy aside, there can be bigger concerns, such as plagiarism, copyright violations, or fake or fraudulent sources. As such, when using AI to do collaborative work, everyone on the team needs to understand these challenges. Otherwise, someone will be too trusting with AI, and the fallout could go well beyond the team.

The future of AI with UC

At the moment, the future outlook is a bit mixed, as the risks associated with AI are coming under growing scrutiny. Ultimately, that will lead to better guardrails in the form of regulation and best practices among enterprises. AI has evolved faster than our ability to responsibly use it, so this scrutiny will help make everyone more comfortable that "AI for good" will prevail.

In terms of UC, we will continue seeing more applications, especially as the performance of AI keeps improving:

  • Meeting engagement. UC services will further use AI to make meetings more engaging as remote work becomes integral for collaborative work. Prime examples include AI-driven video applications that make everyone feel like they're in the room and ensure participants are visually represented equally, regardless of location or where they are in the meeting space.
  • Mobile apps. Another aspect of remote work is the reliance of mobile devices for collaborative work. As 5G-enabled smartphones become more common, they'll be able to support more AI applications, helping them have an employee experience that's totally comparable to the desktop.
  • Immersive spaces for collaboration. Virtual and augmented reality applications have yet to catch on in the workplace, but Microsoft, Meta and Apple, among others, are touting metaverse-style workspaces. Today's employee experience is going to cater ever more to digital natives, for whom this will feel quite comfortable.

As the demographic of digital natives comes to personify the modern workforce, AI-driven UC will become a mix of physical and virtual work environments, where everyone will have virtual assistants. That may not be the reality now, but it's a good indication of how AI is changing UC, along with the essence of collaborative work.

Jon Arnold is principal of J Arnold & Associates, an independent analyst providing thought leadership and go-to-market counsel with a focus on the business-level effect of communications technology on digital transformation.

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The weekend before Art Basel kicked off, Engadin Art Talks (E.A.T) hosted NFT ART DAY ZRH, in Zurich, inviting digital artists, NFT collectors and entrepreneurs to discuss NFTs with a crowd of art world denizens.
“Having run Engadin Art Talks for eight years I know it’s amazingly valuable to meet and speak with artists and get to understand the ideas behind their work and their projects. I felt that was even more important in the digital art context,” Katharina de Vaivre, who co-founded NFT Day Zurich and is the managing director of E.A.T., told ARTnews. NFT ART DAY ZRH was co-founded with Georg Bak, the digital art advisor for Tokengate.

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Over the course of the day, five conversations took place, including a short keynote speech by Kenny Shachter — who we previously profiled in this publication — a dialogue on the philanthropic potential of NFTs, collecting NFTs, and conversations with digital artists about their practice.
Throughout the day there was a constant push and pull as that essential question remained on the bewildered art crowd’s mind: Are NFTs art? And this is, unfortunately, not the correct question to ask, given that NFTs are a technology that can be applied to a range of media, whether its visual art, music, or even event tickets.
This is a point de Vaivre herself was clear on, as she noted in her opening remarks:  “Most people only know about Bored Apes and Crypto Punks, but we want to have a critical dialogue about NFTs as media for art.”
To create some clarification, artists like Kevin Abosch and Sarah Friend went into their art practices during the panel “On NFTs and the Value of Art”. What they described was a kind of ethic and discourse that the art world expects from artists. But what made their conversations interesting was how deeply embedded their practices are to the questions that plague both the art and NFT space.
For Abosch, the discursive issues around NFTs aren’t dissimilar to what he had experienced in his career in the traditional art world after his work started going for millions of dollars.
“I felt commodified because I wanted to talk about the intrinsic value of my work and they wanted to talk about its monetary value,” he said.

Abosch, who has spent much of his career making work about the value of things, felt that with NFTs his work had become more relevant than others, especially as he had already been playing with blockchain technologies in the past, as he did with his project ‘IAMA Coin”(2018) in which he created a kind of Abosch-centered crypto coin.
Friend, for her part, is focused on creating anti-speculative, cooperative games that aim to undo the problematic issues in the NFT market, but which also map on quite well onto the traditional art market. With her NFT project Lifeforms, the NFT has to be transferred or sold every 90 days.
“This is fundamentally opposed to the way the market works now, which is that you hold onto a work hoping it will increase in value,” she said.
de Vaivre felt that the aim of putting together the art world and the NFT world had been a successful endeavor, saying, “We were very happy with our attendance because we had digital and traditional artists, some of the top Swiss and international collectors, as well as NFT collectors, curators. People came from all over Europe to finally meet these artists.”
Some NFT collectors in attendance included Joe Hage and Robert Norton alongside traditional art collectors like Maja Hoffmann, Uli Sigg and Cristina and Thomas Bechtler.
But as much as these types of conferences are pegged as a way for the art world to catch up and understand this brave new world, it was also a networking event. Art Blocks CEO Erick Calderon, for his part, couldn’t walk two steps without having the face of a new European Web3 startup offer him a business card and a short pitch. Towards the end of the conference, there seemed to be equal amounts of people chatting outside as there were attendees in the audience.
During the panel Collecting Digital Art, which included figures like Calderon and Aorist CEO Patrick Foret (formerly a Director of Business Initiatives at Art Basel) one audience member got up to ask, “Is this a real discussion or are we just rationalizing our greed?” That is, was all this discursive work in true pursuit of understanding art, or was it just meant to legitimize a potential business opportunity?
The panel members had a few different responses.
Foret said, “We are witnessing a battle between two titans: the art world, which defines what art is, and the tech world, which is shaking these foundations. Hopefully the titans can stop fighting and make love instead.”
Calderon, for his part pointed out that critique is of course necessary, “We can’t reduce this as being one thing or the other.”
The discourse seems nonstop. Following NFT Day Zurich, Art Basel itself has a lot of NFT programming, including a series of talks hosted by Tezos, a blockchain that is doing quite well during the slump as it’s a more affordable and eco-friendly infrastructure, as well as a smattering of other events, like the Pace x Art Blocks programming.
And it doesn’t stop here. Next week, from the 20th to the 23rd, NFT.NYC, an NFT conference, these conversations will continue. But this time, it’ll be on the home turf of the Web3 kids.
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Well, it is there, it is a part of us, and those of us who are hunters are proud of it and want it preserved, but that may be a sermon for another time.

The song I quoted back there is an old folk song done back in the minstrel show days and went on to become popular and was recorded by of all people Joan Baez and the Byrds.

AI, however, is complex, and rather than trying to understand how it works, IT decision-makers need to focus on use cases and where AI brings value.

Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, it must also now support remote and hybrid work.

This is a point de Vaivre herself was clear on, as she noted in her opening remarks:  “Most people only know about Bored Apes and Crypto Punks, but we want to have a critical dialogue about NFTs as media for art.”
To create some clarification, artists like Kevin Abosch and Sarah Friend went into their art practices during the panel “On NFTs and the Value of Art”.

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Over the course of the day, five conversations took place, including a short keynote speech by Kenny Shachter — who we previously profiled in this publication — a dialogue on the philanthropic potential of NFTs, collecting NFTs, and conversations with digital artists about their practice.

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Content: Had an ol’ dog his name was Blue, betcha five dollars he’s good dog too” American folk song “Old Blue”

Most of us have known a dog named Blue at some time in our life. Maybe you were lucky and owned one yourself. From reading these pages you know that I have had a lot of dogs in my time (too many) but in truth I never had one named Blue. I did own a beautiful Bluetick coonhound back in the day who could have easily been called Blue, but at my Dad’s behest he was named Lead, as in you would lead a dog on a leash. (That was a popular hound name at one time I think) Anyhow, Blue has always been a name given to hunting dogs.

The song I quoted back there is an old folk song done back in the minstrel show days and went on to become popular and was recorded by of all people Joan Baez and the Byrds. Hounds and other hunting dogs are part of our American history and culture, no matter how much some of us don’t want to recognize it. Sadly there are some out there today who because they say they don’t like hunting; they want this part of our past erased and unrecognized. Well, it is there, it is a part of us, and those of us who are hunters are proud of it and want it preserved, but that may be a sermon for another time.

Those who know me know I love all hunting dogs, from bony pointers to block headed Labradors, to fiesty Cur dogs and bawl mouthed hound dogs. (“Bawl” is a type of bark that a hound often does, just stay with me here, we will educate you about this huntin’ dog world.) The topic I want to touch on here for a minute is that in the outdoor industry media and print world, bird dogs like pointers and setters and spaniels, along with the retriever breeds like the hugely popular Labrador are usually talked about a lot more than hounds and Curs and other dogs that are considered “tree” dogs. (Tree dogs are hunting dogs that pursue game be it bears, squirrels, or raccoons and bark at the tree till the hunter gets there)

Recently I am seeing what I hope is a renaissance in this area in that the lesser known hound breeds like Blueticks, Plotts, and Walkers, along with the many varieties of Cur and Fiest dogs are coming in from the cold and may get more press and recognition. Why do I say this? So glad you asked!

I few days ago I had the pleasure of joining Ben Sheets on his podcast “Tree Talkin’ Time” which can be found on Apple, Libsyn, Spotify, and other podcast destinations. Ben hails from Pennsylvania and is “eat up” with the whole treed dog and hound world and it shows in the passion he relates in his podcast.

“I have been involved with tree dogs for the past 15 years and got my start with curs and fiest while in college.” Ben said. “I squirrel hunted during the day and coon hunted at night. After graduation and moving home I transitioned to primarily coon hunting because of time constraints. When I made this shift, I got a few American Leopard Hounds. Through them I was able to meet some bear hunters and I was able to go on my first bear hunt, and I’ve been hooked ever since.

I live in Pennsylvania where it’s not legal to pursue bears with hounds and have to travel to Virginia and West Virginia to do so. I didn’t grow up hunting and while I enjoy it, the dogs and the work they do is why I am drawn to this lifestyle.”

(Ben told me if it were ossible he would move to West Virginia so he could run bear hounds all the time!) Do your self a favor and check out his podcast. https://treetalkintime.libsyn.com

Another bright spot that I see has appeared in the print world of outdoor media. I was honored and humbled to have an article on Cur dogs appear in the first issue of Hound magazine a new addition in the lineup for Game and Fish magazines in the publishing house of the Outdoor Sportsmans Group (OSG). This is a nicely done, full color magazine with beautiful photography and content from some well-known writers in the hunting related media world. (Even if they did have me in this issue)

Dog men and women out there also know that very soon the revered tree dog magazine Full Cry is making a comeback under the new management of Dani and Jason Duby from Oregon.

They are bringing back a publication that has been around since the 1930’s and has been the mainstay for those in the hound, squirrel dog, and coonhound world. Many of your Dads and Grandads will tell you about reading Full Cry since they were kids. I think you will see a new, revamped, and attractive version of Full Cry while at the same time you will get the hound and tree dog news like you remember. I am excited to see this and so happy the Duby household took on this mammoth task of keeping Full Cry in print. www.fullcrymag.com

Maybe the sad eyed hound and the fiesty squirrel dog will be getting a little more respect.

I hope so, Ol’ Blue has been waiting a long time.

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AI in unified communications can take employee collaboration and productivity to the next level. But AI does carry risks that enterprises must first address to maximize adoption.

AI is now the dominant trend in technology and is being widely applied both in the business and consumer worlds. When technology becomes this ubiquitous -- and so quickly -- we all must understand how it will affect our lives.

AI, however, is complex, and rather than trying to understand how it works, IT decision-makers need to focus on use cases and where AI brings value.

Understanding AI in unified communications

For enterprises, unified communications (UC) is one of those leading AI use cases. The focus needs to be on AI technology helping UC do what it does best. From the outset, UC has always been about increased productivity and collaborative work. Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, it must also now support remote and hybrid work.

Until recently, UC has been effectively addressing these needs without AI. But, when considering AI, IT decision-makers are starting to see next-level possibilities for UC across all work environments, not just in the office.

To understand why the opportunity with AI and UC is so promising, two drivers need to be recognized. First is the widespread adoption of UC, which accelerated during the pandemic. Today, businesses of all sizes are deploying some form of UC.

Secondly, employees -- end users -- are more comfortable using UC, so adoption should occur quickly when introducing AI-based applications. It won't take long for IT leaders to see which AI applications are working best, both in terms of productivity and employee experience.

AI applications for UC

With AI evolving so quickly, new business communications tools keep coming. IT leaders need to view this as a continuum of innovation. UC will always be a work in progress, and AI is just another layer for its ongoing evolution. The first wave of AI innovation for UC, which includes applications like automated transcription, real-time translation, noise suppression, meeting summaries and biometrics, has now become table stakes for providers.

These applications continue to provide value for collaborative work, but IT leaders now must look ahead to the next wave with AI. Initial AI applications were mostly about automating tasks, such as scheduling and note taking, and that speaks to how automation is often the driver for building a business case.

AI is now able to take things a step further by not just automating tasks, but also automating workflows. For example, automated transcription has value for making a task better, but now, AI can act on the transcription's content by deploying virtual assistants to manage follow-up activity, such as scheduling a new meeting or providing customized meeting summaries for those who didn't attend the meeting.

Generative AI, where chatbots can generate communication on your behalf, is the latest AI breakthrough, freeing up time for more in-person interaction. With minimal training, these chatbots can compose emails, letters and reports that are not just good proxies for humans doing the work, but are good enough to generate outputs that reflect personal communication styles. As these capabilities mature, it won't be long until virtual assistants can manage many everyday activities.

AI challenges with UC

New technologies always come with risk. Not surprisingly, AI's disruptive potential comes with great risk and many challenges, including the following:

  • Accuracy. When using voice assistants to execute instructions, there must be clear understanding of the task to achieve the desired outcome. Otherwise, workers have to do the work all over again themselves, defeating the purpose of using AI for increased productivity.
  • Complexity. To get beyond basic tasks related to UC, AI applications must understand the work environment at a deeper level by understanding context, intent and nuance. This goes well beyond basic speech recognition, where the sole objective is to accurately capture what was said in text form. These applications of AI only work as well as the instructions provided by humans, so employees need to learn how to interact with AI to get the desired outcome.
  • Bias. A nontechnical challenge comes from learning to trust AI applications. One example is detecting bias that can come from any number of sources. Given how diverse today's workforce is, collaborative work can become problematic if the AI applications use inappropriate references or incorrect assumptions. This can quickly make for uncomfortable work environments and a difficult employee experience.
  • Trust. Perhaps the biggest AI challenge is being able to trust the outputs, especially when coming from generative AI. Often, the sources are not cited, making it difficult to know what the output is based on, what information was considered but not used or how complete the underlying analysis is.

The shortcomings are familiar to anyone who has used generative AI. Accuracy aside, there can be bigger concerns, such as plagiarism, copyright violations, or fake or fraudulent sources. As such, when using AI to do collaborative work, everyone on the team needs to understand these challenges. Otherwise, someone will be too trusting with AI, and the fallout could go well beyond the team.

The future of AI with UC

At the moment, the future outlook is a bit mixed, as the risks associated with AI are coming under growing scrutiny. Ultimately, that will lead to better guardrails in the form of regulation and best practices among enterprises. AI has evolved faster than our ability to responsibly use it, so this scrutiny will help make everyone more comfortable that "AI for good" will prevail.

In terms of UC, we will continue seeing more applications, especially as the performance of AI keeps improving:

  • Meeting engagement. UC services will further use AI to make meetings more engaging as remote work becomes integral for collaborative work. Prime examples include AI-driven video applications that make everyone feel like they're in the room and ensure participants are visually represented equally, regardless of location or where they are in the meeting space.
  • Mobile apps. Another aspect of remote work is the reliance of mobile devices for collaborative work. As 5G-enabled smartphones become more common, they'll be able to support more AI applications, helping them have an employee experience that's totally comparable to the desktop.
  • Immersive spaces for collaboration. Virtual and augmented reality applications have yet to catch on in the workplace, but Microsoft, Meta and Apple, among others, are touting metaverse-style workspaces. Today's employee experience is going to cater ever more to digital natives, for whom this will feel quite comfortable.

As the demographic of digital natives comes to personify the modern workforce, AI-driven UC will become a mix of physical and virtual work environments, where everyone will have virtual assistants. That may not be the reality now, but it's a good indication of how AI is changing UC, along with the essence of collaborative work.

Jon Arnold is principal of J Arnold & Associates, an independent analyst providing thought leadership and go-to-market counsel with a focus on the business-level effect of communications technology on digital transformation.

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The weekend before Art Basel kicked off, Engadin Art Talks (E.A.T) hosted NFT ART DAY ZRH, in Zurich, inviting digital artists, NFT collectors and entrepreneurs to discuss NFTs with a crowd of art world denizens.
“Having run Engadin Art Talks for eight years I know it’s amazingly valuable to meet and speak with artists and get to understand the ideas behind their work and their projects. I felt that was even more important in the digital art context,” Katharina de Vaivre, who co-founded NFT Day Zurich and is the managing director of E.A.T., told ARTnews. NFT ART DAY ZRH was co-founded with Georg Bak, the digital art advisor for Tokengate.

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Over the course of the day, five conversations took place, including a short keynote speech by Kenny Shachter — who we previously profiled in this publication — a dialogue on the philanthropic potential of NFTs, collecting NFTs, and conversations with digital artists about their practice.
Throughout the day there was a constant push and pull as that essential question remained on the bewildered art crowd’s mind: Are NFTs art? And this is, unfortunately, not the correct question to ask, given that NFTs are a technology that can be applied to a range of media, whether its visual art, music, or even event tickets.
This is a point de Vaivre herself was clear on, as she noted in her opening remarks:  “Most people only know about Bored Apes and Crypto Punks, but we want to have a critical dialogue about NFTs as media for art.”
To create some clarification, artists like Kevin Abosch and Sarah Friend went into their art practices during the panel “On NFTs and the Value of Art”. What they described was a kind of ethic and discourse that the art world expects from artists. But what made their conversations interesting was how deeply embedded their practices are to the questions that plague both the art and NFT space.
For Abosch, the discursive issues around NFTs aren’t dissimilar to what he had experienced in his career in the traditional art world after his work started going for millions of dollars.
“I felt commodified because I wanted to talk about the intrinsic value of my work and they wanted to talk about its monetary value,” he said.

Abosch, who has spent much of his career making work about the value of things, felt that with NFTs his work had become more relevant than others, especially as he had already been playing with blockchain technologies in the past, as he did with his project ‘IAMA Coin”(2018) in which he created a kind of Abosch-centered crypto coin.
Friend, for her part, is focused on creating anti-speculative, cooperative games that aim to undo the problematic issues in the NFT market, but which also map on quite well onto the traditional art market. With her NFT project Lifeforms, the NFT has to be transferred or sold every 90 days.
“This is fundamentally opposed to the way the market works now, which is that you hold onto a work hoping it will increase in value,” she said.
de Vaivre felt that the aim of putting together the art world and the NFT world had been a successful endeavor, saying, “We were very happy with our attendance because we had digital and traditional artists, some of the top Swiss and international collectors, as well as NFT collectors, curators. People came from all over Europe to finally meet these artists.”
Some NFT collectors in attendance included Joe Hage and Robert Norton alongside traditional art collectors like Maja Hoffmann, Uli Sigg and Cristina and Thomas Bechtler.
But as much as these types of conferences are pegged as a way for the art world to catch up and understand this brave new world, it was also a networking event. Art Blocks CEO Erick Calderon, for his part, couldn’t walk two steps without having the face of a new European Web3 startup offer him a business card and a short pitch. Towards the end of the conference, there seemed to be equal amounts of people chatting outside as there were attendees in the audience.
During the panel Collecting Digital Art, which included figures like Calderon and Aorist CEO Patrick Foret (formerly a Director of Business Initiatives at Art Basel) one audience member got up to ask, “Is this a real discussion or are we just rationalizing our greed?” That is, was all this discursive work in true pursuit of understanding art, or was it just meant to legitimize a potential business opportunity?
The panel members had a few different responses.
Foret said, “We are witnessing a battle between two titans: the art world, which defines what art is, and the tech world, which is shaking these foundations. Hopefully the titans can stop fighting and make love instead.”
Calderon, for his part pointed out that critique is of course necessary, “We can’t reduce this as being one thing or the other.”
The discourse seems nonstop. Following NFT Day Zurich, Art Basel itself has a lot of NFT programming, including a series of talks hosted by Tezos, a blockchain that is doing quite well during the slump as it’s a more affordable and eco-friendly infrastructure, as well as a smattering of other events, like the Pace x Art Blocks programming.
And it doesn’t stop here. Next week, from the 20th to the 23rd, NFT.NYC, an NFT conference, these conversations will continue. But this time, it’ll be on the home turf of the Web3 kids.
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But over the past two years, their mental health has been put to the test due to growing workloads associated with the rise of remote working.

With cyber security playing a vital role in today’s highly digitised society and the industry plagued by severe talent shortages, organisations must avoid an exodus of IT security professionals.

We are excited to be able to work with Euphoria on our first NFT as the band being a legend has a history of many firsts, and will keep striving to bring exclusive and rare NFTs to our community.”

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How can I avoid an exodus of cyber talent linked to stress and burnout?

Cyber security professionals have played a crucial role during the pandemic, yet many feel like their employers aren’t providing adequate mental health support and have considered quitting their jobs as a result. What can employers do to help them?

IT security teams have seen unprecedented mental health challenges since the Covid-19 outbreak two years ago and the subsequent increase in cyber attacks. In fact, research from VMWare shows that 51% of cyber security professionals have felt extremely stressed and burnt out during these tough times.

Because of increased levels of pressure, stress and other mental health struggles, a staggering 65% of cyber security professionals have thought about quitting their jobs altogether.

With cyber security playing a vital role in today’s highly digitised society and the industry plagued by severe talent shortages, organisations must avoid an exodus of IT security professionals. But experts believe they can only do this by improving mental health in their cyber security teams.

Many cyber security professionals experience burnout as they need to complete high-pressure, timely tasks on a daily basis, explains Therese Schachner, a cyber security consultant and technical writer at VPN Brains.

But over the past two years, their mental health has been put to the test due to growing workloads associated with the rise of remote working. Schachner tells Computer Weekly: “For example, the widespread shift to remote working has resulted in increased stress and higher workloads for cyber security professionals, who have had limited time to implement cyber security protections that accommodate remote workers’ new technology needs.”

“Remote working has resulted in the increased usage of technologies, such as VPNs and remote access, with significant vulnerabilities that attackers have leveraged to initiate cyber attacks, and cyber security teams have been working hard to prevent and mitigate these attacks.”

While the importance of cyber security has increased in the pandemic, there is already a significant lack of talent in the sector. According to Schachner, this means cyber security teams have been understaffed despite organisations increasingly relying on them to thwart serious attacks. “As a result, many cyber security professionals feel overworked and eventually experience burnout,” she says.

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Schachner believes cyber security leaders can tackle burnout in their teams by creating a working environment where employees feel able to voice their concerns and provide feedback on how the workplace can be improved.

“In a supportive work environment, employees are more willing to voice suggestions for more flexible scheduling, additional guidance and other needs, which can help them better manage their workloads and avoid burnout,” she says.

“Cyber security leaders can also make sure their employees have sufficient breaks during the workday and enough time off from work to allow them to rest and recharge. Workplaces can also offer mental health and well-being resources that help cyber security professionals manage their stressful jobs and maintain a work-life balance.”

Preventing burnout

Due to the critical nature of identifying and mitigating cyber attacks, security professionals are very serious about their roles and often find it difficult to unwind in their free time. Karen Worstell, senior cyber security strategist at VMware, says: “Safeguarding organisations is a mission and a mindset more than it is a job.

“This inevitably leads to a sense of intense responsibility, and when people are extremely passionate about their work, they begin to ignore the signals their bodies are sending when they’re run down. Once you find yourself ‘powering through’, that is when things start to break down, and it can be hard to address without the right support.”

When it comes to supporting cyber security professionals, Worstell urges employers to take steps to identify and prevent burnout among staff always on high alert. A key part of this is fostering a workplace where cyber security professionals feel comfortable asking for support and identifying common warning signs of burnout.

Such signs may include employees taking regular sick days or failing to engage with tasks, and cyber security leaders should respond by asking why these things are happening and how they can better support their employees.

“Businesses need to remember that showing empathy and advising self-care goes a long way, but organisations should also look to invest in building the resilience of their team through dedicated training and coaching initiatives,” she says. “If firms lead by example from the top, teams will appreciate feeling that it’s okay to slow down.”

But responsibility doesn’t just fall on cyber security leaders. Individuals must also understand the physical and mental causes of burnout and how to solve them, says Worstell. “If you find yourself feeling cynical and think other team members are making careless decisions because they don’t care about their job, that’s a big indication that burnout is right at your heels,” she says.

“Don’t let it become too late until you put things into perspective. Instead, take some preventative steps, such as identifying what you really want out of a cyber role, carve out time every week on something you enjoy personally to focus on separate goals, and surround yourself with people who’ve got your back – cyber security can be a rewarding job, albeit a fast-paced and lonely one.”

Senior leaders must act

Although a significant number of cyber security professionals are suffering from burnout and mental health challenges, they often lack appropriate support from their employers. Shamla Naidoo, head of cloud strategy and innovation at Netskope, says: “Unfortunately, most organisations lack the support structure necessary to help their security functions through high-stress situations.”

Her view is that senior leaders need increased awareness of the stresses and pressures their cyber security teams experience daily. “Many security professionals don’t feel comfortable admitting that they are struggling because the personal and career penalties can be high,” says Naidoo. “Surveys tell us that many turn to self-medication or alcohol to cope. It is therefore on those of us who are fortunate enough, or senior enough, not to be afraid to speak out; to take responsibility for educating executive teams.”

If cyber security teams are to function as effectively as possible and contribute to long-term business success, she calls on companies to address the cyber security mental health crisis. “Professionals will not be able to perform at their best if their mental health is suffering, and, in a sector where talent is always in high demand, failure to properly support employees will make it far harder to attract and retain the best people.”

For businesses to improve their mental health in their cyber security teams, the C-suite ultimately needs to take this issue seriously. But, according to Naidoo, security teams can help themselves by working to improve their work-life balance, and shouldn’t be afraid to ask for help if they need it. She also recommends that organisations invest in programmes and tools that can help security professionals handle stress.

“The role of a cyber security professional is both complicated and critical, and so we will always be under pressure,” says Naidoo. “It is an industry-wide issue, and the most important thing we can do is talk openly about it and be there for our colleagues, whether they express the need or not.”

Lack of support

Jinan Budge, principal analyst at Forrester, agrees that cyber security professionals don’t get enough support for their mental health. She says security professionals also exhibit poor mental health due to team toxicity, poor communication skills and stress caused by the pandemic.

Budge tells Computer Weekly: “Business’s lack of support, understanding and commitment for cyber security issues makes it very difficult for cyber security employees to be happy, and part of an organisation where security is perceived as a tax. This culture will always be difficult for team members.”

She believes that security leaders need to be more conscious of their own mental health while encouraging their teams to manage productivity, lead with purpose, focus on the good of the business and maintain out-of-work priorities.

“Communicate at the appropriate frequency, with empathy, clarity and vulnerability,” says Budge. “Consider what it means to work in a new, borderless and stressful, normal.

“Some chief information security officers we spoke to coached their teams to work to their individual productivity rhythms, versus number of hours. The servant-leader model of leadership was widely discussed in our research.”

Other steps organisations can take to boost the mental wellbeing of cyber security teams is running employee surveys, offering professional mental health support, implementing a code of ethics, providing leadership training, asking employees to assess their managers, investing in training about issues such as bullying and sexual harassment, and increasing mental health budgets.

Feeling increasingly isolated

Like many other industries, cyber security teams had to leave physical offices in favour of remote working when lockdown restrictions were introduced in early 2020. Sean Wright, application security lead at Immersive Labs, says this made many cyber security professionals feel isolated and resulted in poor mental health in security teams.

“No longer could people simply reach out to others, in a face-to-face manner, and offload some of their frustrations and emotions with others, and while virtual calls did help, they can never replace the face-to-face interactions,” he says.

But now that lockdown restrictions are easing and offices are reopening globally, cyber security professionals should hopefully feel less isolated and experience better mental health as a result.

“Thankfully, as things start to get back to somewhat of a normal, these face-to-face interactions are becoming a possibility again,” says Wright.

“It should never be underestimated how powerful these interactions can be, which is why I recommend periodic in-person meet-ups and team-building exercises. This will allow people to feel like part of the team and help prevent them from feeling so isolated.”

A lack of clearly defined roles and responsibilities could also be affecting the mental health of cyber security professionals. “Without having these clear expectations set, you will likely face employees placing unnecessary stress and extra burdens upon themselves,” he says.

As cyber security risks continue to increase, businesses can’t afford for cyber security professionals to leave their roles due to increased stress and poor mental health. Consequently, security leaders must take mental health more seriously, create an open workplace and provide their employees with all the support they require.

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New Delhi: In a new trend that indicates the utilization of blockchain technology in the music industry, Hindi Rock giant Euphoria is set to launch its latest album titled ‘SALE’, in the form of a Non-Fungible Token (NFT).

The band will drop the music album NFT and nine behind-the-scene photographs on the invite-only NFT project Token Runway, after which it will be auctioned before its public release. The auction commenced on September 9 and culminates on September 12, subsequent to which, the album will be released on September 14.

The album ‘SALE’ is the 8th one by Euphoria, composed of 7 songs that will take listeners on a ride across genres, sounds, styles, emotions and life experiences. Written at various points of time in Euphoria Founder Singer-Writer Palash Sen’s career, each song stands for a real-life story witnessed or felt by him and the band. The album essentially is 17 years of hard work and passion condensed into 7 soulful tracks.

Talking about the music NFT drop by Euphoria, Priyank Mahajan, Co-Founder, Token Runway says, “After decades of experience in the field of entertainment and media monetization we are excited to embark on this blockchain powered journey with Token Runway. The system is built in a manner which guarantees trust amongst sellers and buyers, which lets the creators focus on their craft. We are excited to be able to work with Euphoria on our first NFT as the band being a legend has a history of many firsts, and will keep striving to bring exclusive and rare NFTs to our community.”

Explaining the rationale behind slipping into the NFT trend, Euphoria Founder & Singer Palash Sen says, “We believe that it is important to take our music to all communities. This will widen the outreach of our work to the global blockchain community and we certainly are looking forward to it. As seasoned musicians, we think it is essential for us to be a part of this movement. We come from a time when it was impossible to release an album without a label or a rich dad. NFTs offer a whole new distribution mechanism without affecting the artist’s other revenue streams.”

In the music space, an NFT can be stated as a piece of creative work that is stored on a digital ledger. Artists and musicians can create NFTs to auction off various forms of digital media to their fans. This marks the beginning of an era when artists are able to do business directly to fans and sell their NFTs like they used to with self-produced CDs.

NFTs operate on a blockchain, which is a publicly accessible and transparent network — meaning anyone can see the details of any NFT transaction. Computers involved in the transactions become part of the network, which keeps updating and can’t be hacked.

These NFTs or digital tokens have gone mainstream in the last year, as many international musicians sought out additional revenue streams in the digital audio distribution of the pandemic. The release of the album as an NFT by Euphoria will also be the first of many other NFTs by the band with Token Runway over the coming years as they see a massive potential for growth via this new trend. “In the long run, fans will have access to exclusive work from the musicians and will bring back the concept of ownership of music like in the case of CDs, cassettes and records. For the musicians it will provide new reasons and challenges to better their craft,” said Palash.

Speaking to IANSlife about the future plans, Palash says:

“After the release of SALE as an NFT, we are also going to be working on creating a year long calender or a roadmap to release further content, memorabilia, Euphoria demos, and several other special things relating to the band’s journey. It is definitely exciting as it helps us connect with an audience that is interested in and seeks off beat collectibles. Being an independent artist, our options are limited. But then, the sky is the limit.”

“We have been working on this album for over 17 years, it was not till recently we thought of doing an exclusive pre-release SALE as an NFT. It so happened that we were in the process of releasing the album when the NFT trend set in. As we had the album almost ready we decided to take the plunge with it, mainly to test waters and gauge the response from our audience. We are very happy to have collaborated with Token Runway for our very first NFT project. It has been truly euphoric to work with them.”

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Gen Z is redefining career paths by embracing freelancing. A new worldwide report found that 70% of the Gen Z respondents have taken up or are planning to freelance with about 40% willing to go full-time with it. Amid mass layoffs and reducing tech roles, GenZ has moved to a more flexible and autonomous area to create job security for themselves. Fiverr's second annual Gen Z report surveyed over 10,000 people between the ages of 16 and 26 in the U.S., UK, Germany, and France.

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The study also found that nearly 36% of respondents consider freelancing to be an excellent backup plan in case they are laid off or their job is taken away by AI technology advancements.

To most, flexibility was the key to choosing freelancing, especially Americans. About 20% of the US respondents said they “work to live, not live to work”, up from 3% last year. This was supported by another data point that indicated nearly 30% of respondents want to travel for work and work from wherever they want. Thus, freelancing which provides greater freedom and flexibility seems like a clear such workers.

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Furthermore, nearly a quarter of the respondents want to own their own business and 14% want to freelance for their entire careers.

In job security, about 10% of the respondents said they were let go and another 14% said they were afraid they would be. Thus, about 38% of U.S. respondents feel that freelancing full-time puts them in a position where they can’t get laid off and 25% believe that freelancing is more stable. About 18% of the respondents felt being a freelancer makes them less likely to be replaced by AI.

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Before jumping into freelance work, people should consider a few things. First of all, is the type of service they would provide and their skillset. Next is their financial situation and the room to account for potential financial instability. Also, freelancers unlike employed workers need to make their tax payments themselves. Thus, figuring out the tax situation beforehand is important.

Find an In-Demand Niche

Freelancers need to make sure that they niche down into specific market segments and conduct extensive research to understand the market appetite for the product or service that they are delivering. At the same time, you want to strike a balance so that you haven't completely limited your opportunities.

Leverage Social Media

With about 4.76 billion social media users worldwide, freelancers need to leverage platforms to grow their reach. Social media can be used to source clients and network with them there. A solid social media strategy with great content should allow businesses to engage clients and potential stakeholders.

Use Freelance Tools

Numerous websites and platforms act as matchmaking and marketing platforms for freelancers to connect with clients. The most popular platforms include Fiverr, Upwork, LinkedIn, People Per Hour, and FlexJobs. Leveraging these tools can help freelancers put their business out there and get quality clients faster by cutting straight through the clutter.

Prioritize SEO-Optimised Content

Starting a blog can help a business grow by boosting the searchability of the business on search engine platforms like Google. Content with the right keywords and on the current topics of the market segment can help businesses display expertise and win clients faster.

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