Happy Tuesday, people.
I'll be at the Museums + Heritage Show tomorrow, on The Audience Agency's stand (Wednesday, stand A13 in the Sector Support section). If you're there, come say hey - it would be lovely to chat all things digital.
I'll also be showcasing a beta version of a new free tool we'll soon be launching. The Name Pending™ tool will support you to assess your organisation's AI readiness, focusing on purpose, governance, ethics, how your organisation uses the tools, how it manages them - and everything in-between. If you want to give it a go, come along to the stand and I can guide you through it. Hopefully see you there.
📰 Latest news
- On Wednesday 27 May at 1pm, we'll be hosting a free online seminar introducing our next Let's Get Real programme, focusing on Social Impact and AI. In the session we'll share how the programme works, the methodology behind LGR, what you'll get out of taking part and the impact the programme has had on past participants. So, if you're interested in taking part in this year's cohort, join us on the 27th!
- Last month the Global Creative Economy Council published their 'Global AI Agenda for the Cultural and Creative Industries'. The agenda includes 11 key actions intended to guide the design of concrete public policies to be adopted by governments. I like that the first two actions focus on investing in skills and promoting literacy.
- Similarly, this month the Action Group on Digital & AI have published their 'Recommendations for the AI Strategy for the cultural and creative sectors'. The hope is that these recommendations will directly inform the EU's first AI Strategy for the Cultural and Creative Sectors.
- You may have seen recent recommendations by the government to drop screentime for under 5s. The BBC has published an interesting video showing the research behind the recommendation.
🤓 Useful / shareable
- A cohort of scientists from across the US and the UK have published a study which suggests that, whilst AI assistance improves immediate performance, it comes at a cognitive cost.
- Slightly older article, but this is an interesting look at the rise of the 'culture stack' and how it is trying to reshape art, technology and place.
- The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, has described Australia's social media ban for under 16s as an "unmitigated disaster". There's also been more information on what the UK is considering for their own under-16s social media ban.
- Bots now account for over half of the traffic on the internet - making people the minority on the web.
💥 Distracting / entertaining / inspiring
- Here's a great issue of Cultural Content featuring an interview with the V&A's Kati Price, focusing on the Mused platform and how the V&A reaches younger audiences.
- This was an interesting read from Numiko, looking at whether public bodies have a duty to ensure Large Language Model answers are correct. I shared some further thoughts over on LinkedIn (I'm sorry), with a real world example I stumbled across during a workshop.
- Have you watched a concert film or livestreamed gig? It felt like something we all did (perhaps almost over-did) during the early parts of Covid, but it seems like the popularity of live-streamed content is once again on the rise.
- This is a fun article from the National Library of Scotland, looking into the appearance of libraries and archives in video games.
👍 Something good
- A few issues back I shared Lego's unveiling of its Smart Bricks. At the time, I was kind of on the fence. Since then my 5yo got one of the Super Mario sets which included an interactive Mario Lego figure, as well as a few different sets with some of the earlier versions of the smart bricks. Truth be told, it's quite cool.
