During the 2024 Superbowl, Discover Card aired a commercial called “Robot” that explored the difficulties of recognizing AI from a real person. As Jennifer Coolidge praised Maya, the Discover Rep, for sounding like a human being (which she was), the rep retorted with: “Wait, are you a robot?” – (Maya) Discover Rep “Oh, how …
Read MoreMarket Research Online Communities (MROCs) as they were typically called at the time were a yearly feature in GRIT’s new technology section for over a decade, until they became nearly ubiquitous due to their cost/time efficiencies over ad hoc research. But do those advantages still hold when compared to the potential of AI synthetic data/respondents? …
Read MoreI love that lead-in quote and not simply because I’ve been a vinyl record enthusiast and collector since a guy named Reagan lived in the White House. I also love it because I’m a HI (Human Insight) enthusiast and embracing life’s surface noise is critical in the pursuit of human insight. Given the current state …
Read MoreAI (ChatGPT, et al) is set to disrupt the Market Research Industry. A recent joint academic study (Princeton, Penn & NYU) with the sexy title “Occupational Heterogeneity in Exposure to Generative AI” listed MR in the top 10% of industries threatened by AI (75th out of 750). Looking for more causes for concern, On Monday …
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