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Using AI To Augment Creativity

The Horizons Tracker

“This change enables higher-skilled employees to generate innovative scripts and develop positive emotions at work, which are conducive to creativity.” Supporting work The findings are based on work undertaken in a telemarketing firm.

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The Social Cost of Bad Online Marketing

Harvard Business Review

In the B2B world, it’s all about lead generation: getting people to hand over their email addresses and phone numbers so that you can spam and telemarket them into submission, where “submission” means actually buying your product. It’s going to take a combination of business innovation and personal responsibility.

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Marketers, Go Back to Basics

Harvard Business Review

Instead, he says it often pays to focus on bread-and-butter marketing (like direct mail) or even on technical innovations of the past few years that are effective, but less novel (like mobile websites). Innovation is great — but not before you've leveraged what you've already got.

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How Do Humans Compare To ChatGPT When It Comes To Creativity?

The Horizons Tracker

This change enables higher-skilled employees to generate innovative scripts and develop positive emotions at work, which are conducive to creativity. The researchers analyzed how sales agents in a telemarketing firm used conversational AI (that had been trained on huge quantities of call center data).

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Is AI Coming For Our Jobs?

The Horizons Tracker

In areas such as healthcare and management, there is clear potential for jobs to be added, with these gains likely to outweigh the number who might lose their jobs due to automation, especially in roles like telemarketing, customer service, and administration. But theres a catch.