[The Next Web] This advertising agency just hired an AI creative director – is the future Shingy-less?

David Shing, or simply ‘Shingy,’ is well-known in technology circles. And for good reason, he’s AOL’s energetic and up-beat ‘Digital Prophet’ – oft jetting around the world to talk about the future of technology. But how long will Shingy’s (and other similar roles) survive? Not all that long perhaps, if McCann‘s hiring of an artificially intelligent creative director in its Japanese office is anything to go by. According to The Drum, the bot’s called AI-CD β and was created by the company’s ‘Millenials taskforce’ (a fittingly ‘on-point’ name for a company that just ‘hired’ an AI) and will help in making suggestions for commercials, based on logic it…

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