The Awesomeness of AI

Wanted to see how a LLM like chat will do to translate abstract instructions into .svg files….

Behold the results!!!!

Next, I gave it more detailed instructions:

(note some sarcasm there? heheheh….)

At this juncture, the process encounters some limitations. It’s important to consider that Chat is a Large Language Model (LLM) that hasn’t undergone updates in over two years. Additionally, OpenAI may not allocate extensive resources to a free service like the one I’ve been utilizing. When attempting similar approaches in coding, there was a period of trial and error. However, with clear and detailed prompts, Chat was able to achieve success, often in a spectacular manner. It seems that both code and language—code essentially being a form of language—are comprehensible at a logical level, allowing for relative ease of understanding. However, when it comes to visual elements like pictures, the situation differs. While there are AI modules capable of generating images, they may not grasp the nuances of abstraction in a manner akin to human perception. Nonetheless, advancements in this field continue, and it’s likely that we will eventually reach a point where such nuances can be understood and replicated effectively. As an experiment, you can throw your idea for a novel or screenplay into Chat GPT and see what comes out….Don’t hold your breath. But on the flip-side, it’s handy to give different voices to characters in your story. Here are an example.

Original Dialogue: “Give me the suitcase right now. Put it down on the ground here in front of me. Wait! What is the combination. Get back over here. Open it up. Slowly. Hands were I can see them.” Prompt: Chat, can you please help with this piece of dialogue? It is spoken by a over weight middle aged Cogney. He speaks in heavy Cogney accent and uses allot of Cogney slang. Please edit this to add a bit of drama and make it as long or short as you wish. Dialogue to follow”

“Oi, give us the bleedin’ suitcase, yeah? Drop it right ‘ere, smack dab in front o’ me. Hold up! What’s the ruddy combination? Come back ‘ere, ya mug. Crack it open, nice ‘n easy. And keep them hands where I can see ’em, or else…”

What do you think?

When asked to re-do in a Chicago Gangster’s voice in the 1940:

“Alright, pal, hand over that suitcase, and make it snappy. Set it down right here, nice and easy, in front of yours truly. Hold your horses! What’s the combination, see? Don’t you move a muscle, now come back here and give me the skinny on that lock. Open it up, slow and steady, and keep them mitts where I can eyeball ’em, capisce?”

Nerdy Stats for Stats Nerds

If Stats Nerds and Video Nuts had a baby…

If you are a stats nerd like me; and work in media, then this website is a treasure trove….It’s called Datareportal.

In addition to being a stats nerd, I’m also a video nut.  In this post I’m going to share a few things that jumped out at me on the digital 2024:  Global Overview Report.  Here is the link if you want to brows for yourself. 

 

1st thing to note is that roughly two thirds of the world in online, connected with a personal device. Nearly 95% of them are social media users. My guess is that in under developed countries devices and internet connections are shared potentially hiking the percentage to 85-90%.

What jumped out at me from this slide was the avearge global amount spend on the internet. Bare in mind, that is for work, apps like Whatsapp, and watching streaming services such as Youtube and Netflix. Taking all in consideration, I’m somewhat supersized it is not higher….No Supersize that the majority are on their phones, but well over half use it on their stationary devices also.

18.7 % of South Africans are not connected. My guess are it’s mostly infants under 2.

Note that the above slide shows reason and not time. My guess is that time spend on the internet will see a shuffle of what are evident here above.

video production in Cape Town

Apparently TV is still a thing. Who know. For how long still?

Roughly speaking, just under half of the seven hours average spend online everyday is watching video. Likely, while on Facebook and Instagram you are also spending a large amount of time consuming short video content. Audio only has a respectable slice of the pie, but my thinking that a break from traditional broadcasting will see a shake up in these figures.

Here we’re getting to the crux of the matter. This is no surprise to parents with kids in the home. The more surprising thing is that add revenue penetration on TikTok has caped out at about 1.6%. I’m waiting to see what percentage YouTube – even though it’s second to TikTok, will slurp up. I predict MUCH MORE

podcast services

I’d thought I’d say something about Facebook’s add reach. It might be one of the biggest platforms for advertising. But in my trials with Facebook, it generated very low quality leads. Almost none of them was converted into a sale all the while working very hard to present to the prospecting clients. In comparison Google Ads gave a 1000% higher ROI in advertising revenue spent. Jobs coming from Google search was also an easier sale. But that is just me (working in media and video production).

I almost wana say it looks like it’s more or less keeping up with inflation – this slide does not have me very exited.

live streaming

For a little fun. Dogs beat Cats everywhere except on Wikipedia.