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InPublishing AI Special Highlights
In the recent May/June issue of InPublishing Magazine there was an extensive AI Special, featuring insights from 13 experts in the UK publishing sector, on the subject and including our own CEO Markus Karlsson.
Following the article, there was a Webinar on the same subject areas - with pertinent experts answering the various questions from the audience.
View the full Webinar Video (1 hour 15 mins) - here
InPublishing also extracted key points from each expert - which...
Affino CEO and Founder Markus Karlsson shares his AI Expertise as part of InPublishing's AI Special
So our good friends at InPublishing - James and Martin decided to do an extensive take on AI - featuring leading exponents and experts of that new frontier from across 13 companies no less. And of course our illustrious leader Markus features in said AI Special - where the allocated subject was ’Using AI for new product development". Which actually really neatly dovetails into our own experiences and expertise.
All these individual insights come from a learning perspective - that others ...
AI-Generated Music is incredibly already coming of age!
So I’ve been spending the last couple of weeks exploring the two current leading AI-Generated Music / Song Platforms - suno.com and www.udio.com.
Chat GPT’s Suno has been around for a while - it’s V3 currently I believe, while Udio - created by 4 former Google DeepMind staffers is currently in Beta and has only been live since April 10th this year.
Each platform is incredibly sophisticated as it generate whole songs - instrumentation, vocals and lyrics wholly automatically - you just ...
PressGazette's Rob Waugh interviews CEO Markus Karlsson on how Affino 9's baked-in AI abilities can help fix the current fragmented Internet
Affino CEO Markus Karlsson highlights the current Internet challenges for publishers - and how Affino 9 and Generative AI can provide useful solutions to making the most of the evolving opportunities.
Rob Waugh’s ’Publishing on the open web is broken, how generative AI could help fix it’ article / feature - lists out several of today’s problem areas concerning the current state of the Internet, and how that’s impacting on Publishers in particular.
He then sets out to discover what ...
The Next Phase of AI sees an arms race for Large Action Models (LAMs) and LLM Automation
Nowadays it’s the mobile phone which acts primarily as your digital personal assistant - through a range of helpful bots like Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri. While these bots are to an extent vocally interactive - they are really just scraping the surface when it comes to handling our personal and professional tasks and routines.
Using mobile devices as digital personal assistants, alongside the current generation of AI apps is a start on the journey towards being the digital equivalent ...
Affino Congratulates PPA Independent Publisher Awards Winners, and thanks all who attended our Next Generation AI Experience Roundtables
Team Affino loves participating at the PPA Independent Publisher Conference and Awards, and we extend a legacy which started around a decade ago. Two of our finest were in attendance on the day - CEO Markus Karlsson and Product Director Quang Luong - note to organisers - that phonetically it’s pronounced ’kwang loo-ong’!
Special Congratulations to Fire Safety Matters / Western Business Media who carried the award for our sponsored ’Business Publication of the Year’ category. Quang was ...
Affino Innovation Briefing 2023 Materials and Resources Now Live on the Site
The Affino Team had wonderful day out in King’s Cross at our new Event Venue for this year - the St Pancras Meeting Rooms. We hope all that managed to make it on the day had a properly eye-opening and suitably edutaining time! I personally was wowed by all the AI Co-Pilot and Generative Assistance abilities forthcoming. And I’ve been dabbling a little on the Midjourney and Photoshop AI side myself!
It seems that every year the video file sizes get bigger and bigger - and it took two very ...
Affino features heavily once more at the PPA Independent Publisher Conference and Awards - taking place this Friday
Affino is participating once more at PPA’s annual Independent Publisher Conference and Awards.
Taking place once more at etc. venues 133 Houndsditch, London, EC3A 7BX, where the nearest Tube Station is Aldgate on the Circle and Metropolitan lines, Liverpool Street station is pretty close too.
Our CEO Markus Karlsson will be leading a couple of Roundtables on the subject of :
Using AI to generate next generation user experiences
- Exploring how AI will transform your user experiences to
Affino Innovation Briefing 2023 takes place in one week - on November 16th at the St Pancras Meeting Rooms
Affino’s Annual Innovation Briefing Event is taking place at the St. Pancras Meeting Rooms, Derbyshire House, St Chad’s St, London WC1H 8AG, UK. In the heart of the King’s Cross area of London, and not far from Coal Drops Yard and the two main stations. In fact just across and on the other side of the Marylebone Road [See Map]. King’s Cross St. Pancras Station is served by 5 Tube Lines - Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan, Piccadilly, Northern and Victoria.
The Theme for this year...
Affino is participating at PressGazette's Future of Media Technology Conference once more - on September 6th, at the Hilton London Bankside
I believe this is the third year in a row that Affino is participating at The Future of Media Technology Conference. For the first time I think combined with an awards ceremony - right at the end of the day.
You will need to venture south of the river to this year’s venue at the Hilton London Bankside - sort of half-way between Waterloo and Borough Market, where the nearest Tube stop is Southwark on the Jubilee Line.
Here follows the day’s Agenda - with the Affino-led AI Panel Discussion at ...
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