Point of view: Brutal forces

This article argues that while artificial intelligence (AI) continues to progress in astounding ways, advertising will always be underpinned by an understanding of human emotion beyond a machine's capabilities.

Point of view: Brutal forces

Faris YakobGenius Steals

In 2014, my friends at Admap asked me to write a piece about the impact of Big Data on creativity, to promote their annual essay contest on the same. I looked at Big Data and couldn't find anything that anyone had done with it except retarget banners more invasively, in a way that I felt would drive greater rejection of digital advertising (which it did, as evinced by the meteoric rise of ad blocking over the past two years).

I went further, musing that since creativity is a combinatorial...

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