Omnicom Media Group launched Sentience : a book on the impact of Artificial Intelligence

Newsroom 09/10/2015 | 13:37

Omnicom Media Group launched its latest publication Sentience: The Coming AI Revolution and the Implications for Marketing, looking at the impact that AI will have upon the world of marketing.

According to Mike Cooper, CEO PHD/Omnicom Media Group Worldwide, “The impact of AI will result in a radical reorganisation of advertising and marketing.  AI applications will be largely ad-supported, meaning that marketing will be one of the first disciplines disrupted by AI.  In the future, brands will be marketing to an algorithm, not directly to consumers”.

Sentience offers a new perspective, in the effort to scope out a commercially realistic view on the potential products we will be using and the advertising and data models that will likely support them.

“Marketing will be radically reorganised by the AI revolution, and this is something we are already considering in our client presentations. We are fully prepared for this new perspective,” stated Zoltan Szigeti, president The Group/Omnicom Media Group Romania.

Sentience provides a comprehensive history of AI – what it is, where is started and the road leading to today – and builds a picture of ‘the future of intelligence’, offering a peek into the AI-driven world of 2029 and the implications of AI enabled marketing.

“The book explores the increasing role that ‘sentient’ Virtual Personal Assistants (VPA’s) will play in our lives, with many of our purchasing choices being made for us, meaning brands will have to adapt to reach consumers,”  also said Liana Mihai, managing director of OMD/phd Romania.

The book was previewed in June at Cannes Lions Festival to coincide with PHD’s keynote seminar, which saw guest speaker Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, give his views on the impact that AI will have on society and business.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins leading figures such as Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak who have recently given their views on the impact that AI will have, which according to Stephen Hawking, “would be the biggest event in human history (and)… might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks”.

Speaking at Cannes Lions, Sir Berners-Lee asserted that “to be part of the business world, you need to put data out there”, seeing a future where artificial intelligence drives the decisions in major corporations.

He dismissed the clichéd view of physical robots running the world, suggesting instead that artificial intelligence will actually comprise businesses driven by algorithmic decisions as data becomes free and open to use.  He envisaged robot holding companies that could move and make investment decisions based on data and algorithms – and without human input.

However, Berners-Lee warned that businesses would be left behind unless they started actively putting data out onto the web, as a step up from simply creating web pages to push products.

Berners-Lee was positive about open data and AI’s impact on business on society, particularly in health and wellbeing. But he warned that there was a “red line”.

Sentience is available to purchase from Amazon, the iBookstore and Google Play, with all proceeds going to UNICEF.

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