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LOVO Pitch

Hey, it’s Rikaro. I have some thoughts on our recent choice of implementing LOVO within our advertisements.

Aggressive Technologies has always been known for its innovative spirit and the human touch it brings to every project. But a new trend is emerging – AI voice generators like LOVO promise faster, cheaper content creation. While the efficiency might be tempting, is replacing human voices with robotic ones the right move for a company that thrives on connection and creativity? LOVO might churn out generic marketing materials and eLearning modules, but what about the impact? Studies show human voices resonate with emotion, build trust, and leave a lasting impression. LOVO can’t replicate the subtle nuances that make a message truly connect with an audience. Think about your talented in-house teams and voice actors. They’re the ones who breathe life into your content, who understand the power of storytelling and emotional connection. LOVO might seem like a shortcut, but it ultimately undermines the human capital that sets Aggressive Technologies apart. The future of content creation isn’t about homogenization, it’s about harnessing the power of human ingenuity. Instead of relying on AI, invest in your people, equip them with the latest tools to enhance their creative process. Let them tell stories infused with genuine feeling, because that’s what builds lasting relationships with customers and learners. Aggressive Technologies doesn’t need to follow the crowd. By focusing on the strength of human connection and creativity, you’ll continue to outpace the competition and forge a path unlike any other. Let’s discuss how to amplify your human edge and leave LOVO in the dust.

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Week 8 Summary

This week I created a sales pitch for Aggressive Technologies as Rikaro. I wanted to add to the lore of Rikaro’s relationship with the company. I wanted some sense of tension in this pitch, so I made Rikaro question the use of AI for everything. He wanted to use AI for the benefit of humanity, not the replacement of them.

LOVO Pitch

Also, my group came up with some ideas on how our project should go and I can see some promising results happening in the future. Emphasizing our character’s personalities will make this a unique radio show.

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Week 8 Summary

This week there were four tasks assigned to us, two of which I’ll reflect on here!

The first one was to pitch an AI tool to Aggressive Technologies for them to acquire. I chose NightCafe to pitch since it is an AI tool I have become much more familiar with recently. I explored more about this tool and decided to pitch based on the potential profits and the user-friendly design. I figured it would be most beneficial to sell someone on the best qualities that will keep people coming back to use it and make the most money for the site. I encourage you to check it out and generate some images for yourself.

The next assignment was three daily creates this week. You can see mine on my Mastodon page. The first one I did this week gave me the opportunity to use an interesting art tool that I had not used before. My favorite part about this daily create was seeing everyone else’s art they created and how different it was from my own. The second daily create was asking about addictions people had, which was interesting to read through. The last one was adding a modern appliance into an old image or photo. I decided to look up one of my favorite photos and see what would work best in the context and decided to add an apple watch to it. Go check it out and let me know if you know this image and see what is out of place.

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AI Pitch

This sales pitch is from me, not my character since he strongly opposes Aggressive Technologies.

The AI tool that AT should look into buying is called NightCafe. This AI tool is an image generator that offers users several different styles of art generation. It can generate 1, 4, 9, or 16 images for each prompt depending on what the user requests. I have found this tool very useful for many creative endeavors recently.

One of the best features of NightCafe is that it is essentially free to use. All you have to do is make an account and they give you a certain amount of “credits” for free. Each image costs one credit to generate, so the free credits are really free images. Each user can claim five free credits per day which allows people to continue to use the platform without paying. However, for those who wish to generate significantly more images, they offer paid subscriptions that give a certain number of credits per month based on subscription tier. The opportunity to use this tool for free, but also have paid tiers makes this a useful, yet profitable website.

They also include the ability to train your own model in 10-30 minutes, which adds a level of personalization that users might not get elsewhere. NightCafe’s layout makes it easy to use and keep coming back to, especially if someone trains their own model through this tool.

From a business standpoint, Aggressive Technologies would be wise to acquire this tool. The format of the website makes it user-friendly and profitable at the same time. I believe this type of image generation technology will continue to improve and be an increasingly profitable area of AI in the future.

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Week 8 Summary

This was a fairly light week in terms of work, and I’m definitely not complaining!

My favorite assignment was the AI Pitch. It was actually very helpful looking through all of the AI on Rundown AI for my own research. I even downloaded an ecommerce tool to help me out at work by automating the process of writing a product description. I actually had an impromptu meeting with a developer who wanted to build an LLM for our website doing something similar, so I was grateful that I had already done some research on the topic and could ask more questions. I didn’t have any issues with this assignment and used it as an opportunity to expand the IBU (Isaiah Beacon Universe) by writing as his personal assistant.

Choosing my group was fairly straightforward, and I’m happy that it’ll be a lot easier to start now that we’ve begun communicating. I joined my group because I liked the idea to discuss AI from different perspectives. When thinking about my character and this idea, I definitely think that my character will be very confrontational with any anti-AI figures and will try to steal the show in general.

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AI Pitch

I am an AI assistant pitching on behalf of Isaiah Beacon. He really wanted to be here to give the pitch himself, but as you all know, his super busy schedule simply precludes it. I believe that Beacon Media Ministries really ought to integrate the newest and greatest AI chatbot, Dante AI. I know that we already have a chatbot on our website, but Isaiah really wants to make sure a chatbot guides every facet of the user experience, which is why we wanted to integrate an additional one.

The biggest problem with AI integration for different businesses is properly inputting training data that is relevant to the company. Dante AI solves this problem by allowing you to upload your own media files, which includes websites, images, documents, etc., and Dante will create a chatbot for you with a chatbot trained on these media files.

Another perk of Dante is that it has analytics tracking infused into its chatbots, whereas with other chatbots you’d have to export this information to another service to view any growth. It is easy to share it onto our multitude of websites as well.

We wish to move forward with Dante AI, as it will give us a full chatbot integration with some additional perks.

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Adios Week 8

Looking back at this week it was definitely a short one. I felt like I was able to complete my work in a timely manner. The three daily creates I did for the week were fun and interesting in my opinion. My favorite would have to be the one about something we can’t go a day without. I felt like everyone could relate to this daily create. I said my addiction was coffee. I always have a cup in the morning, as it helps me get through the day. I feel a good amount of people definitely could relate to a coffee addiction as it is essential for me and others. For my AI proposal to Aggressive Technologies, I chose to go with Gemini. Gemini is a text AI by google that provides a large amount of publicly available data and can communicate and generate human-like text in response to a wide range of questions. I chose to use Gemini because I have used this AI in the past and it is easy and simple to use, so I thought it would be a perfect fit for Aggressive Technologies. For my radio show I am working with Jackson Beale and Andrew Johnson. Our show’s objective is to talk about the day in the life of our AI created characters for DS106. I am excited to work with them to give an inside scoop of our three different types of characters. I’m eager to get a start on our show and look forward to the results. Overall, this week was short but intriguing. I’m looking forward to week 9. Until next Time!

Old But New?

For today’s daily create I have taken an old painting and put a modern twist to it. The painting I chose is The Starry Night by Van Gogh. I chose this because it is one of my favorite paintings and it’s a well-known classic. I used an AI photo generator by the name of perchance.org. I gave the generator the prompt of “generate a modern style of The Starry Night by Van Gogh”. This is what the generator was able to produce. Hope you enjoy.

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Week 8 Summary

This week started with me joining my group for the upcoming audio assignments Im excited about. My group has a good theme and I think it will create an open podcast type vibe. It was alos nice reading and writing on other peoples ideas for their shows. From there I made and posted my daily creates and enjoyed messing around with different AI’s for those. Those three will be linked below. Then I did the AI sales pitch assignment in which I pitched the idea of screw together skis which was a funny episode from Curb Your Enthusiam. In the show Larry David gets backlash for it and it was called a dumb idea but ChatGPT didnt think so, they liked it and thought it was innovative. It was a short week but it felt better to be back. The past weeks I was undisciplined as I got busy doing research for my psychology research team. It was a goal I had not to do that but I did and just have to move on and not do it again. Im looking forward to these upcoming weeks, though! All my work is linked below!

Avengers Assembled

Screw on Skis: Curb Your Enthusiasm

Daily Create for Week 8 #1

Daily Create for Week 8 #2

Daily Create for Week 8 #3

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Pre-Nap Weekly Summary – 3/11-3/15

The nap I am about to take after I finish this and my final homework . . . (it won’t be a nap, I will be going to bed).

In this class, this week was actually kinda fun! I met my groupmates!! I’m actually really excited. Sol might be being interviewed by Dr. Ravioli on Ravioli Radio along with Natasha Sidorov, Dolly, and Lady Alice. Very excited to see what we’re going to come up with!!

Other than that, I didn’t do a whole lot for the class, but here are my posts!

Daily Creates

Week 8 Daily Creates

I talked about the Daily Creates in the post, and you can see them all! They were all fairly simple, either just fiddling with an art program, thinking about my cat, or clicking some buttons on Canva! Honestly, a typical week of Daily Creates for me. Nothing stood out, so I don’t really have much else to say!

AI Pitch

The Silent War: Exposing Aggressive Technologies’ Assault on Creativity and Freedom

First thing I want to say about this, is that I did it wrong . . . I have so much to do after this assignment, so I just did not process the instructions correctly. I thought we were using AI to explain why our character should acquire Aggressive Technologies or should put Aggressive Technologies out of business, not use AI to explain why Aggressive Technologies should acquire the AI or put the AI out of business. I guess I just am letting out my inner Sol and hating Aggressive Technologies too much that it’s impacting how I read . . .

I really had no idea until I was doing my commenting and I was like “oh this person did this assignment wrong” and then I clicked at another person’s and saw that it was the same and I started scratching my head.

Anyways, it’s too late to change it, so I’m keeping it and that’s just how it’s going to be.

I used a video creator AI to explain why Aggressive Technologies should be put out of business, creating a TikTok-esc 1-minute video about how Aggressive Technologies threatens human creativity. Sol made the script, and used the AI to show that there are some things that AI can be good with, like creating text to speech, but there are other things that AI goes too far on, and that’s when it becomes a threat.

It was fairly easy, nothing really deep or big about it! I enjoyed the assignment all up until I realized I did it wrong (but I’m exaggerating, I’m not too beat up about it).

NEXT WEEK GOAL! Learn how to read the instructions and start my work in all my classes earlier so I don’t do everything at 7pm on Friday when everything’s due. Or just tell my job I can’t come in every other day this week in the morning when I usually do my homework.

That’s it, I have to get to this assignment before I explode okay bye see you next week