A presentation at Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie in in Utrecht, Netherlands by Nick van der Linde
@nickvanderlinde Bots vs.
Content Managers Making sense of artificial intelligence
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@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie “Artificial intelligence” ”Machine learning” ”Cognitive computing” ”Neural systems”
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie (Also: OMG will robots take over my job? ! ) How can we use AI to design and build better digital products?
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Why AI is exciting
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@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie We believe the future is about less interactivity, not more.
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INSIGHT @nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Context-awareness allows us to design much smarter, more relevant user experiences.
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INSIGHT @nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Artificial intelligence allows us to fundamentally reimagine today’s screen-based interactions.
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Desktop interfaces Natural language interfaces Mobile interfaces
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Natural language interfaces will radically change how we interact with technology.
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie How will this change our work?
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@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie 35% of jobs are at high risk of computerisation over the next 20 years” Michael Osborne, Carl Frey, Oxford University “
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Wait, I’m a creative!
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@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Google can now describe images with 94% accuracy” https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/23/googles-ai-is-getting-really-good-at-captioning-photos/ “
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@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie The future is hyper-personal
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Hyper-personal content Artificial intelligence Personalised content Wikipedia New York Times Twitter
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@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Instead of one story with a million page views, we’ll have a million stories with one page view each.” Robbie Allen, CEO, Automated Insights “
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@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Hyper-distributed content Personalised content Browsers AR / VR Wearables Voice Chat Cars Notifications Artificial intelligence
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie 1. AI will increasingly be able to create highly personal content by mashing up existing content and data points
AI will increasingly determine what content will show up where, based on what it knows about users Summary
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie How do we stay relevant?
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie A few ideas on the role of content managers in a world of algorithms…
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Create content that’s easily reusable 5 1
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Browsers AR / VR Wearables Voice Chat Cars Notifications +
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@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Using meaningful, semantic HTML will make your content future-proof
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie •
▪ hAtom - blog posts, articles •
▪ hCalendar - events •
▪ hCard - people, organizations, contacts •
▪ hListing - listings for products or services •
▪ hMedia - media info about images, video, audio •
▪ hProduct - products •
▪ hRecipe - cooking and baking recipes •
▪ hResume - individual resumes and CVs •
▪ hReview - individual reviews and ratings Microformats!
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INSIGHT @nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Paying attention to semantics and meta-data will help AI to put your content to use
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Think about input & output 5 2
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Artificial intelligence is about content and design as much as it is about engineering.
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Things to consider: • Data quality • Data relevance • Ethics Things to consider: • Output format • Tone of voice • User experience Algorithm Input Output CALENDAR Things to consider: • Quality • Potential bias
INSIGHT @nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie AI requires intense collaboration between content specialists, designers and technologists.
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Build in affordances 5 3
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INSIGHT @nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie As stuff increasingly happens “under the hood”, building in affordance will go a long way toward preventing disaster.
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Keep playing around 5 Keep playing around 4
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INSIGHT @nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Take the time to fool around, and try new things outside of your “regular” projects
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie 1. Create content that’s easily reusable
Think about input and output 3. Build in affordance to prevent disaster
Keep playing and experimenting Key take-aways
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Going forward
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Content Managers M This is the wrong way to look at it
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie ✓ Nuance ✓ Abstraction ✓ Storytelling ✓ Breaking rules ✓ Judgment ✓ Precision ✓ Computation ✓ Memory ✓ Working quickly ✓ Perseverance + Together, we make a great team
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@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie How will you make robots work for you?
@nickvanderlinde Congres Content Marketing & Webredactie Thank you! 1 @nickvanderlinde nvanderlinde@mirabeau.nl
This talk explores the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on content, from the perspective of content strategy, content management and user experience.
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