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@c0nr800 from here

-His only response to that could be a simple shrug of his shoulders, thinking the phrase over again.-

“I don’t have wings. I’m also uncertain if I’d ever want some, either…”

“No wings, clearly too big for the top of a Christmas tree. Makes you a bit of a shitty angel then, doesn’t it?”

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any director's cut commentary on the most recent chapter?

💕 absolutely delighted to, anon! (and who are you that you remember these!)

i don’t know if there’s any specific part you’re interested in, but i'll scroll through the chapter and comment on anything that pops out to me. if there IS something specific, please ask!

“Act versus status,” she says now, returning to an earlier river, further inland up the delta. “Status is not a criminal act.” The delta splits into two here, and she follows one of the streams. “For example…” she whispers. “For example… being an addict is a status, not an act.”

this was so fun! this is a scene from my pre-canon fic “a controlled burn”, but from kim’s perspective.

kim was specific enough on her end of the phone call that i knew i’d picked some piece of real crim law for her to be referencing, so two years later for this scene i had to find it again. and then it turned out to be much more relevant than i realised at the time!

also i do want this to work even if it’s the first fic of mine you read! thankfully (evilly) the show decided to make born yesterday the most traumatic old hollywood film choice of all time, so. there you go.

Sluggish with foreign material and long days and copy machines and coffee breaks and new things.

a little reference to this one shot of mine, “green”! she likes new things.

something v. Texas, or Pressburger v. something

it’s powell v texas, but kim’s brain gives her pressburger here because she’s a fan of powell and pressburger movies.

“I saw the news,” Kim blurts out, her chest rising and falling between the words. She tries for warm and sympathetic instead: “And I thought of you, how are you?”

i love everyone’s kindly-innocent-phone-voices on this show, and it’s fun trying to capture them in text.

also ever since i first saw the episode i’ve been obsessed with the idea of kim calling francesca and making it as far as she can through a conversation, as if she isn’t desperate to ask about jimmy from the moment the call connects.

“Robles and Goto Partners,” the receptionist says musically. “How can I help you today?”

big ups to gina robles from the 410 cold open who is suddenly given a role in my fanfiction, hi gina.

also of course our beloved viola, who witnessed much too much, and who i’m so delighted by. slinging shade about vegan patties. “i, um. good.” an icon. she’s seen saul goodman in his pajamas. who else could it be.

Lynn has family up in Santa Fe, so when she found us a place here… it just seemed meant to be.

even bigger ups to Lynn of deleted scene fame who absolutely made the most of a free trip to the stein eriksen lodge in 2004.

This is a prepaid call from—and then Jimmy’s own voice clicks in, a hollow recording: “Uh, Jimmy McGill?” before it shifts back to the robot—… an inmate at Montrose Federal Correctional Complex.

SHOUTOUT TO SERIAL, WHO HERE LISTENED TO THAT TEN YEARS AGO

“Y’know, it’s a funny thing,” Jimmy says, crackling and hissing at the edges, so far away. “I can’t stop thinking about what the weather’s like out there.”

oh honey

kim he’s thinking now

kim get your man out he’s dreaming again he’s wistful

“No, I meant—” Jimmy starts, and the tone is suddenly so familiar she can see him clearly, can see him shaking his head and staring at her pleadingly. “What about you as the better lawyer?”

jimmy saving up his precious minutes of shitty payphone connection to sow some seeds 🥺

this next scene with patty is a really interesting one in terms of like... one of the difficulties i’ve found writing kim pov is handling the dialogue in the scenes where kim is largely silent. it’s such an important part of the character but it really strains my limited range of action description.

and i didn’t even realise specifically how little she did speak here, but she says less than ten words over this entire interaction.

it’s tough because i still want it to feel like two people engaging with each other, like patty’s bouncing off kim and not just giving a ted talk.

She’d forgotten the bar exam, in the months afterwards. By the time she received her score, she had barely remembered what questions she’d answered, what subjects she’d written on.

it’s weird and wonderful how like... way back when i was working on the bar exam chapters for "slip and fall season”, i read a bunch of things people had written about their experiences. and i remember people saying afterwards they totally forgot everything they wrote. i dont know if this ever ended up in safs, but it’s so cool how like... that was just sitting in my head, waiting to be useful.

like churning water heading for the shore.

all the best chapter endings are accidentally in iambic pentameter.

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Songbirds act as one when they sing together, new study suggests

By Francesca Giuliani-Hoffman

June 14, 2021

The brains of duetting songbirds may be linked together during performances, according to a new study.

Singers performing a duet, jazz players riffing together effortlessly, paired-up dancers never skipping a step: great performers are so coordinated, they become one.

What are the mechanisms that regulate coordination and cooperation? Neurobiologists are learning more from some of nature's foremost musical performers: songbirds. The brains of duetting songbirds are linked together during performances, a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found.

The exchange of auditory feedback between the birds "momentarily inhibits motor circuits used for singing in the listening partner, which helps link the pair's brains and coordinate turn-taking for a seemingly telepathic performance," according to a news release.

It's not telepathy -- but almost, according to study coauthor Eric Fortune, a neurobiologist and associate professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology's department of biological sciences.

"The birds hearing each other links their brains to act as one," he told CNN.

"The male's brain has expectations of what the female brain is going to do. The female brain has expectations of what the male brain is going to do. And when they start operating together, they're tied," Fortune added.

A songbird's brain and a trampolineThe study focuses on what happens in the brains of male and female plain-tailed wrens -- a species native to the Andes region, living in bamboo thickets -- while they sing duets.

Plain-tailed wrens are songbirds that live in bamboo thickets in the Andes region. The duets of Pheugopedius euophrys are frantically paced call-and-response songs, and they take turns singing so rapidly, it sounds as if a single bird is singing, according to the study.Working from the Yanayacu Biological Station's lab in Ecuador, right by the active Antisana volcano, scientists specifically investigated an area of the songbirds' brain known to control singing.Researchers recorded the birds' brain activity during duets using electrodes much thinner than a hair, Fortune explained. The team observed that when a bird sings, the neurons spike in activity, but when a bird hears a partner sing, the neurons quiet down.

The fact that neurons quiet down is especially significant, Fortune explained. "Oftentimes, what happens is after you have inhibition, you have a rebound, and that rebound can change the timing of your own behavior," he said.Fortune compared that effect to that of jumping on a trampoline: "You bounce down, that's kind of slow, but then you shoot off." The scientists hypothesize the release from inhibition could help a bird respond faster when it is its turn to sing. According to Fortune, there are similarities between how the birds take turns singing and how humans do that while they converse. "If you watch your own interactions with people, you'll see that the other person starts talking a nanosecond after you stop uttering your last word -- it's really amazing," he said.What humans and robots can learn from songbirds"Every achievement of humankind is based on cooperation, that is the feature of humans that has allowed us to do the amazing things we do," Fortune said. Learning more about how songbirds stay in sync during their singing performances can help illuminate the mechanics of coordination in humans, a complex phenomenon that involves many different types of information being exchanged among parties.

"A lot of us understand how hard it is to dance, and in part it's because you are exchanging complex sets of information at different times -- touch, vision, acoustic, you have to signal your intent, there has to be some set of variations, and it turns out to be a real mess."Songbirds, on the other hand, take turns in their duets in a more structured fashion, making it easier to analyze how cooperation works, according to Fortune.Furthering our understanding of cooperation in songbirds could also help us build better robots, Fortune explained."Robots are actually more precise and better controlled than a human can control themselves, and yet robots can't cooperate with us," he said.

The brains of duetting songbirds link up to create "a single control system" spanning two individuals, according to Fortune. This could inspire the development of robots that can better form partnerships with humans."It's this linkage of the control systems across individuals that is critical insight for roboticists," Fortune said.

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Review: Mechanical Mind

Author: Carme Torras

Genre: sci-fi

Year: 2017 

Notes: Collection of two short fiction stories and two essays about robotics. I have read the italian translation by Raul Ciannella and Francesca Secci published by Future Fiction (Future Fiction also published an english translation, and there is also a print on demand edition). Read this review in Italian here.

Spain has changed, and is now in post-apocalyptic conditions. Cars are not used anymore (replaced by small personal aircrafts) and the roads have changed too, becoming abandoned places where the remains of cars still litter the roadside. But sometimes the need to visit a service station remains, and this one is unlike the others. It is a teenage girl who notices it first, and then both her parents realize it. There is an unexpected cleanliness in station, and a homeless man seems to be living there and taking care of it…

And what is happening to Ictineu Tercat, operated recently in Thailand, whose heartbeat is behaving weirdly?

The essays are an interesting insight on the future of robotics: what are the characteristics needed in a robot that interacts with people, especially in caring roles, and how can those problems be solved is just one of the questions they raise. And there is also space for the role these robots will have in society, and for how science fiction can help in understanding it.

Carme Torras is a researcher at the Spanish Scientific Research Council and has published hundreds of articles about robotics and AIs, and this makes the two articles/short essays included here quite the compelling read, since they offer a glimpse of what and how is it so complicated to engineer a robot that can perform tasks that aren’t the simple, repetitive movements a mechanical arm in a factory performs. Robots that will take care of people in need (children, disabled people, elderly) will need to learn and understand the circumstances, and how to move in a setting in which humans move too. I found the paragraphs about the challenge in teaching robots how to deal with different materials very interesting, and if you’re a sci-fi author you may want to give these articles a read. And let’s face it, even if you aren’t, you’re gonna be interested.

The two stories are very fascinating, and I would love to read more by Carme Torras. The first story got my attention pretty quickly, in offering this world that is made fascinating by various hints: it is post-apocalyptic, because car wrecks still litter the roads and tons of people have lost their jobs due to high levels of automatization, but the parents of Ag-Nese, the teenage girl who notices the homeless man first, actually have jobs and she is getting an education, so we haven’t reached a “total collapse of civilization” post-apocalyptic level. I was going to say it’s a sneaky apocalypse, but for those who lost their jobs it’s definitely not so. The second story, called A Life E-Ternal, is a compelling narrative of fear and discovery. I’m not going to say anything else because of spoilers.

That being said, if you want to give Catalan sci-fi from a robotics researcher a chance, this is a great occasion.

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15 Most effective e-commerce business strategy for amazon.

 On the off chance that you are an online business brand you need some E-commerce Business Strategies for Amazon to get new clients just as allure old clients to continue to return to your store. With these demonstrated web based business showcasing techniques and tips, we will show you how to get traffic to your website, construct connections and trust with clients, and get back those lost deals. Prepared to become your web based business? 

1. Characterize Your Sales Cycle

Each business is novel. What amount of time does it require before a client makes a buy on your site? Knowing how clients travel through your business interaction can be useful with the goal that you can make the best E-commerce Business Strategies for Amazon conceivable. 

In the event that you don't have the foggiest idea what amount of time it requires for a client to finish your business cycle it will be hard to pinpoint which stages you ought to publicize on, when you ought to be forcefully retargeting or sending messages. Does your client convert in seven days, a month, a year? Characterizing your business cycle will require some exploration just as testing. When you have this down you can proceed onward to our next web based business advertising systems. 

2. Upgrade Your Checkout Process 

Abatement truck deserting by enhancing your checkout interaction. This is one of those E-commerce Business Strategies for Amazon that is frequently ignored by organizations however it is potentially the main one! You invest such a lot of energy building trust with possible clients to get them to buy from you and you need to keep assembling that trust all through your checkout interaction. On the off chance that your checkout interaction is smooth and reliable beginning to end, you will build change rates and decline truck deserting. The following few  web based E-commerce Business Strategies for Amazon are useful while enhancing your checkout page. 

3. Make your checkout cycle as simple as could be expected 

Attempt to get everything on one page. On the off chance that you must have a few pages, consider showing an advancement bar at the lower part of each page so your clients can picture how much longer your checkout interaction will take. Make fastens simple to figure out – the additional time a client spends searching for the following catch or the checkout button the faster they can get disappointed with your site. 

Francesca's is an apparel store that has a simple checkout measure. They have three segments all on one secure checkout page. The main segment is for delivery data, the following for charging lastly, you can audit your buy. They incorporate a photograph of the item or items you are buying and separate your aggregate sum with the goal that you can perceive the amount you are paying for transportation. You can likewise effectively see the entirety of the data you have entered and return to make adjustments without hitting the back button. 

4. Give clients (and web search tools) supportive item depictions 

On the off chance that you are selling any sort of dress or frill, give a size manage. Not exclusively will this assistance clients yet it will scale back returns for your business. You might need to incorporate client surveys or tributes too. Ensure you have a page devoted to as often as possible posed inquiries. This can likewise be advantageous to your SEO on the off chance that you compose quality depictions that incorporate watchwords. Review what SEO is and how it functions before you make a plunge. Upgrading your depictions will help you climb in search rankings which implies greater perceivability for your business which can prompt more deals. 

Asos has executioner item depictions for each and every one of their items (and they have a ton!). Every one is useful for clients and incorporates watchwords for web search tools. These subtleties mention to clients what the item is made out of, the size, fit, and texture, how to clean it, and even tells clients the stature of the model in the photograph. You don't need to go hard and fast like Asos, however the more exertion you put in to your depictions, the simpler it will be for your clients. Not exclusively can they effectively discover your items, yet it will likewise be simpler for them to settle on a buy choice. 

5. Show transporting costs. 

Nobody likes to go through the way toward composing the entirety of their data into your site and get right to the end just to discover that there is a colossal delivery cost. Be forthright with clients. On the off chance that you can, let them realize the amount they will be paying toward the start of your look at measure. Or on the other hand charge a level rate delivering if this is a possibility for your items. 

As well as being forthright about your transportation costs, give clients a thought of when their items will show up or if there are some other delivery subtleties they should know about. 

Francesca's likewise shows dispatching costs before you go to buy your things and they offer the alternative to checkout with PayPal which is a confided in stage that numerous customers as of now use. In the event that customers as of now have a PayPal account this speeds up their checkout. 

Another convenient thing that PayPal and numerous other E-commerce Business Strategies for Amazon are doing now is sending receipts through Facebook courier. This makes it so natural for clients to monitor their buys. The simpler you can make it for clients to buy or return items, the almost certain they are to get back to your online store. 

6. Give clients the alternative to continue to shop. 

In the event that clients are given the choice to continue to shop before they look at they should think about it and keep looking at. Yet, a ton of the time clients will keep on perusing your site just to ensure they didn't miss anything. E-commerce Business Strategies for Amazon like this are not difficult to join into your checkout cycle. Basically add a "continue to shop" button close to your "proceed with checkout" button. Ensure they are both simple to discover on your page. 

7. Tell clients what types of installment you acknowledge. 

You can add the logos of what sorts of charge cards your store acknowledges. This assists work with trusting with customers and causes them to have a sense of security when they are entering their Mastercard data. Add mainstream security seals to build trust also. In the event that clients perceive a security logo they will feel calm realizing their Visa data is in acceptable hands. 

Francesca's shows this mainstream security seal during their checkout interaction. It is not difficult to see and shows up around the top of the page. This can be a distinct advantage for your checkout interaction. 

8. Retargeting 

98% of clients don't change over on their first visit to a site. On the off chance that you need to catch those business you should have retargeting E-commerce Business Strategies for Amazon. There are a few different ways you can retarget clients with the goal that they get back to your site to buy your item. Perhaps the most famous ways is to run retargeting promotions on different sites. At the point when a client goes to your site and leaves without getting, you can utilize different locales that they are visiting to show your items. Pretty cool right? You can likewise retarget clients with email crusades. Have you at any point added things to your truck in an online store without buying and afterward got an email a couple of days after the fact that looked something like this? 

Provided that this is true, you have recently been retargeted. These messages may captivate you to buy things you have abandoned or to search for other comparative/supplementing things on a similar site. This will build traffic to your site which can get you more transformations otherwise known as more deals. 

9. Email Marketing and Automation 

Email advertising has a middle profit from venture of 122% which is multiple times higher than channels like online media, post office based mail and paid hunt. Building an email list is just about as simple as alluring clients to give you their messages when they make a buy. You can likewise gather messages through web-based media crusades and on your site in return for coupons or limits. 

Making an email advertising technique can include independent messages just as robotization. Look into how to improve your B2C email advertising effort. You can even set up email computerization like truck surrender, welcome mechanization, and request robotization. 

Truck deserting messages retarget clients when they leave something in their trucks. You have most likely gotten one preceding reminding you to return and buy the things in your truck. It's one of those "well disposed update" E-commerce Business Strategies for Amazon that will assist your business with recovering those lost deals. 

Welcome robotizations are incredible so clients consequently get an email when the principal join to get your messages. You can incorporate a short message about your image and how you are glad to have them ready. On the off chance that you need you can even incorporate a coupon to captivate them to buy from your store. 

Request computerizations are ideal for staying up with the latest on their buys. There are a few messages that can be a piece of this mechanization including an affirmation email telling the clients you have gotten their orders, a delivery email affirming that the things have dispatched and an email saying their items have been conveyed. You can even send a fourth email asking how they like their items. 

Requesting criticism or audits is one of those web based business promoting systems that is truly simple to consolidate into any mechanization you may as of now have. After your clients get your item request criticism! You can ask clients to just rate your item or to leave an audit. This is useful for different clients when they are looking for your items and it's useful for your business with the goal that you can keep developing and improving. Upgrade your messages for cell phones. Actually like upgrading your site to be versatile cordial, your messages ought to likewise be not difficult to associate with on different gadgets. Try not to lose supporters since they can't see your messages on their cell phones. Most email APIs like MailChimp or Active Campaign as of now improve your lobbies for portable yet it doesn't damage to twofold verify whether the entirety of your photographs, text and logos look great before you send.

10. Update Your Website 

In the event that your business has been around for some time, you might need to consider a site update. More seasoned destinations will in general look malicious. Individuals trust things that are recognizable so if your site is like different destinations concerning plan, your clients will have a sense of security and agreeable. In the event that you don't trust us, which site could you trust? 

Configuration is continually changing so ensure you are forward-thinking on the most recent patterns. Look at our E-commerce Business Strategies for Amazon tips that form trust and increment deals! 

11. Online Media Advertising 

Online media is perhaps the most practical stages to publicize on! In the event that you as of now have accounts on all significant online media stages like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter you have effectively ventured out! Having records and posting now and again isn't sufficient to develop your business particularly in the present cutthroat market. You should construct a E-commerce Business Strategies for Amazon showcasing effort. 

When you have a procedure set up you can start publicizing. An extraordinary beginning stage is Facebook. You can target explicit crowds and connection to explicit pages on your site. Extraordinary compared to other online business promoting procedures you can use with Facebook publicizing is making points of arrival. 

A greeting page is an independent site page utilized for publicizing efforts. This is the place where clients are coordinated to after they click on a promotion from web-based media or Google. For instance, say you are promoting one of your items and you don't have a page on your site for that particular item. You can make a point of arrival for that item so it is more in accordance with the notice you are appearing on Facebook. It is so essential to ensure your promotions and points of arrival are compatible. This implies they need to have something very similar or comparable data and have a predictable look. 

Another of our most loved E-commerce Business Strategies for Amazon is to fuse video into your notices. Showing a short video to expected clients of how your item can improve their lives will make yourself clear rapidly and effectively. Clients are searching for moment delight. In the event that you have a commercial with a great deal of text, odds are it will go uninitiated. With video, you can catch expected clients and attract them. Show them how your item functions with a short exhibition. On the off chance that clients can see your item in real life, they will be bound to give it a shot. 

Web-based media internet business promoting systems require examination, ability, and time with the end goal for them to run as planned. On the off chance that you think you are unequipped to run your own web-based media crusade, let our web-based media specialists on staff give you a hand! 

12. Customize the Buying Experience for Customers 

In the event that clients feel like your store is devoted to assisting them with selecting the ideal item, at that point your store will transcend the rest. Use name personalization in your messages or on your site, suggest items dependent on past buys, or up your advertising game with a customized test. This is an incredible method to associate with clients. Take them on a special purchasing venture that is lined up with their own preferences and styles.

E-commerce Business Strategies for Amazon works effectively of customizing everything for clients. They show clients related items and suggestions of items they may jump at the chance to buy. Each client dashboard appears to be unique. It's practically similar to each Amazon customer has their own customized Amazon store. 

Another organization who is making personalization a major piece of their purchasing experience is Stitch fix, a dress membership box. They begin with a become acquainted with you style test. This can cause clients to feel exceptional and it shows that the brand thinks often about making every individual's purchasing venture individualized. Setting aside the effort to find out about your clients' necessities may appear to be a gigantic accomplishment however over the long haul you can build deals just as client commitment. 

13. Adapt Your Brand 

Individuals trust individuals so find a few ways to ensure clients see the appearances behind your image. Convey recordings showing how your items are made and tributes and pictures of steadfast clients. Speak with clients, react to tweets, surveys and remarks. Screen what clients are saying and don't simply answer to the terrible remarks or audits. Setting aside the effort to convey longer, accommodating reactions will tell your clients that you give it a second thought and that there are individuals behind your image that are endeavoring to ensure clients have the most ideal experience. 

14. Put resources into Mobile 

At the point when Facebook put out the versatile rendition of their site, they put huge loads of cash into a total patch up on the grounds that they realized that portable was the following enormous thing. A total site redesign is presumably pointless for you, yet you will need to check your portable site to ensure it is working appropriately. You generally need clients to have a decent shopping experience. There are approaches to fabricate your site so certain components show up on work area that don't show up on portable and the other way around. You can cause components to show up distinctively on various gadgets too. 

15. Construct a Mobile App 

How often have you been perusing a site on your telephone and afterward needed to change to a PC to arrange your item? On the off chance that you need to make portable one stride further, consider building your own internet business application for iPhone and Android. There are a few advantages to having an application for your web based business. E-commerce Business Strategies for Amazon will in general load all the more rapidly that sites so clients can shop all the more effectively. On the off chance that you have an application clients are one tap away from review your items. You can likewise send pop-up messages through applications to tell clients when you are having a deal or when their number one thing is back in stock. On the off chance that your business is as of now settled and you are searching for approaches to keep on fostering your image, fabricating an application is a fantastic method to help deals and drive development. 

E-commerce Business Strategies for Amazon application is instinctive and easy to use. The plan impersonates their work area site with a couple of contrasts however is more helpful for portable clients. Here is an illustration of a quest for "k cups". The work area rendition shows a few choices prior to showing the smash hit k cup and more alternatives that are not supported. The versatile form actually incorporates the Solimo espresso units just as one supported espresso case and in spite of the fact that it shows not exactly the work area form, the client doesn't feel as though anything is absent. 

*Bonus Tip* Sell Your Products on a Third Party Site 

We have utilized a few E-commerce Business Strategies for Amazon models above in light of the fact that they realize how to showcase, retarget, and are becoming incredibly quick. Utilizing an outsider site, similar to Amazon, to sell your items is extraordinary for private venture who are simply beginning. There are a ton of expenses to consider when assembling an internet business website. You should buy facilitating just as your own area and you will most likely have to employ an online business web composition master to construct your webpage. Outsider locales permit you to make a vender account at practically zero expense, in spite of the fact that there might be accuses related of really selling your items. They can likewise assist your business with acquiring openness. 

Once more, this is an extraordinary beginning stage for private company to give them a lift when they are first selling items. Over the long haul anyway you will need to fabricate your image away from outsider merchants and make your own web based business webpage to sell your items. 

With regards to sorting out which E-commerce Business Strategies for Amazon turn out best for your business, test and get inventive. What would you be able to show improvement over your opposition? These procedures will help you construct trust and make an after of steadfast clients that buy from your business consistently. To develop your business, they should be executed appropriately. Enroll our experts at LYFE Marketing to take your internet business to a higher level. Get in touch with us today to perceive how we can assist your online store with developing

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What Will It Take To Unlock AI’s Potential?

The National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show 2018 showcased the trends and technologies to watch going into the new year, and AI was a major part of the conversation. EBay, Cosabella and 1-800-FLOWERS.COM are just three of the brands that have gone public with the benefits they have seen from AI-powered solutions. However, as AI’s use expands, data scientists and algorithm developers must incorporate ethical structures into the technology to ensure shoppers have a trustworthy experience.  

The RTP editors share what it will take to unlock AI’s potential, as well as what could stand in the way of the technology’s growth.

Debbie Hauss, Editor-in-Chief: I definitely think there's no stopping AI/machine learning in the future of retail. Retailers and their solution partners are quickly realizing the long-term value of AI in improving 1:1 personalization efforts. Done right, machine learning algorithms can continuously learn, providing more relevant offers and products for shoppers, which in turn will provide better ROI for retailers and brands. Customer service also will get a boost with AI, helping to weed out the basic customer inquiries. What is important for all companies to acknowledge, though, is that they should not plan to completely eliminate human interaction. That will be a quick way to lose brand confidence and loyalty.

Adam Blair, Executive Editor: For AI to reach its optimum potential, retailers are going to need to be crystal clear about who, or rather what, is “speaking” to consumers at any given time: Is it a human being, or an AI-powered chatbot? “This [distinction] should be explicit for creating a trustworthy user experience,” said Francesca Rossi with IBM Research AI, during an NRF 2018 session on AI and ethics. Forrester’s Brendan Witcher gave me a great practical example of the reason why: “There’s a very high risk if someone thinks a person is talking to them, but then the machine says something insensitive — e.g. if someone is traveling for a funeral and the bot tells them to ‘Have a good time.’ If the consumer thinks it’s a person saying that, he or she will be highly offended.” Don’t try to fool consumers into thinking they’re speaking to a human being if they’re not — or you might be the one playing the fool.

Marie Griffin, Managing Editor: If your organization’s core competency is not technology, you will be left behind because machine learning is accelerating software development beyond human capabilities. That is literally the definition of AI. You can’t keep trying to justify legacy systems, regardless of how much they cost or how long you thought they would last. You have to pick vendor partners that are the best of the best and are dedicating all their resources to constant improvement of whatever technologies they offer. You have to choose cloud technologies to take advantage of super-rapid software development —and this is likely a more cost-effective option than systems you once bought and owned. And if you don’t have the intestinal fortitude to do these things, get your company ready for sale or buy a company that has what you need. Don’t fail at a sad, slow pace. Make your move now.

Glenn Taylor, Senior Editor: With mobile used at virtually every point during the shopper journey, one would have to think that AI will truly thrive once retailers fully integrate it into these platforms. That means retailers will have to leverage AI platforms that can collect data from other iOS/Android apps in order to know a consumer’s tendencies beyond shopping — as creepy as that sounds. Of course, the option to “opt-in” is the key component here, and there’s no such thing as too much transparency. Company culture is still going to determine the success of AI on a case-by-case basis. Up to 61% of retailers deploying AI still lack in-house knowledge, while 47% lack a clear implementation plan for the technology, according to a survey from Infosys. If retailers don’t have a proper grasp of the technology they’re deploying — or simply aren’t buying into it — then there will be fewer use cases that can set the bar for how to improve the technology in the long run.

Klaudia Tirico, Features Editor: It’s time people realize that AI is here and here to stay, so you either accept it and excel, or don’t and get left behind. Based on my research, I’ve learned that accepting AI has proven difficult, as humans are afraid they will lose their jobs to robots. I don’t believe that’s the case. For AI to reach optimum potential, retailers, marketers and organizations in general have to realize that AI will allow them to free up time to tackle big new initiatives, instead of having to worry about the routine tasks of their job. Instead of spending hours analyzing data and figuring out what makes customers tick, AI can help retailers deliver greater experiences in a fraction of the time. This, in turn, will make more time available to focus on additional aspects of the business. Retailers such as Amazon, Lowe’s and Cosabella are already leveraging AI in some way, shape or form; it’s time others embrace the machine, or risk losing out. 

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Weak and craven creatures are we || @storiesnotyettold 

She’s not sure if Connor will be in sleep mode or not - she’s not entirely sure how to wake him up if he is - but all she knows is that she needs him - not Luca, not Hilda... It has to be Connor. So making as much noise as possible as she runs up the stairs to the attic - where he spends his downtime (which, honestly, is beyond weird and creepy) - she calls his name out, as soon as she’s through the door. “Connor? Connor, you in here?” 

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@thiriumdxd wants the d (and by ‘d’ I mean disturbing content)

Since the news broke on Friday - Francesca was waiting for something to happen. And by something - she meant a termination of her employment. And the time between finding out and being due back gave her imagination plenty of time to conjure up scenarios. She’d get a phone call Saturday night. Or she’d wake up to an email Sunday morning. A text as she walked out the door on Monday. Her card wouldn’t work when she got to the office. Security would escort her out of the building. She’d be called into HR after lunch for a chat. Or arrive and find a slip on her desk.

With Elijah Kamski back at the helm - her days were numbered. Last in, first out. He’d solve the companies deviancy problem one handed and she would be superfluous. And after all, the board had made such poor choices in his absence and Mr. Kamski was working hard to rectify them.

Attempting to circumvent a scene, she showed up nearly a full hour early (with coffee). But her stuff wasn’t in a  box on the sidewalk, she wasn’t denied entry, klaxons didn’t start wailing as she scanned her keycard. 

No. None of the things she expected happened.

Instead - as she approached her office walking past a row of silent desks - thanks to the glass walls, she was aware that her terminal was on, and someone was sat at her desk. She’s not sure who - or why - but she’s still certain of what it means, as she pulls her earbuds out with one hand, entering her office, frowning just slightly, not greeting the stranger, but not making her entrance quiet either.

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@rkunwiired made fleeting eye contact 

Everything had settled down - it would be a lie to say it had gone back to normal - but the new normal was emerging and programmes were being put in place to manage the after effects - to try to ease the transition. The scramble to find people to help - to find people willing, competent and qualified - had meant that Frankie had, as yet, not had to make excuses as to why she had volunteered. After all, rates of deviancy were low in IRIS androids - something only aided by the fact they’d not been on the main commercial market for some time... And the same buy out that caused that, as much as the company had been facing collapse at the time, meant that her financial future was not reliant on working. 

But the influx of work was too mountainous for anyone to really question her motives - not that they were illicit. But she couldn’t have people thinking she was some sort of bleeding heart, could she?

Gently steering Marina from her office she cast a brief glance around the androids dotted around the hastily thrown together waiting room. A swipe of her finger across a tablet brings up the next in line and she lifts her gaze, and her voice - “Chester?”

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@tenaciously-dysfunctional from here

There were some things that one shouldn’t hear and that just happened. Tony had a lot of problems and not even one of them was anyone’s business. And there was that woman.

He didn’t even want to know what he spoke in his dream. Moments like these made Tony religious. But he can just play it off, right?

            “Well, I hope I was saying how amazing you are because that is what’s on my mind now even now.”

Frankie turns to eye him over her shoulder - she’s noticed the way he’s tensed like a rabbit in the headlights at her statement. Maybe she should’ve just gone with ‘good morning’? She flicks her gaze over him when he speaks.

“Mmhmm.” The tone of noise she makes suggests that he was most certainly not saying anything of the like, nor does she believe his attempt at misdirection. But she presses no further, turning away from him, sweeping her hair from her shoulders as she struggles slightly to do up the zip on the back of her dress.

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@storiesnotyettold  Gave me blanket permission to love them - what a fool! 4 Kamski?? Maybe? Or anyone?

The party - she had felt - had been in especially poor taste. She had suffered it though because playing the gracious wet-eyed conquest suited for all of five seconds as she - and a man she had once thought of as family - signed their respective shares in IRIS over to Fancourt Enterprises. With that done, however, unable to drink and distinctly alienated by the men in suits who ran the boardrooms but probably couldn’t change the time on the dashboard of their cars - she had decided that given there was little to celebrate for her here.

Expected, of course, to look a certain way - she had made some poor choices. Her body had barely recovered from her accident - high heels and tight fabric were doing her no good. The car journey here had shredded her nerves raw and almost caused a breakdown - and she refused to do it again. 

Her date - her companion for the night - one of her father’s androids had thought better than to press the point and had taken off running to get her something more suitable to walk home in. Even at top speed, it would take him some time - and so, she had eased herself onto the steps outside of... Whomever’s house, happy to leave the party behind. She hears the door open, maybe - subconsciously - but it is the light washing over her that makes her lift her head, although she doesn’t turn it towards the source, hoping that whoever it is will sense her need for solitude and stay away. 

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@storiesnotyettold from here

Connor hesitated before saying quietly, “There is a 12% chance they won’t…” He kept his hands stuffed into his pockets to hide their twitching and tried to meet the other’s eyes but didn’t quite succeed, instead looking at their chin. “But I have to do something! I… I can’t just sit here and do nothing!” 

“Twelve per cent? Twelve per cent?!” She can’t help it - can’t keep her voice calm. “It’s not good enough, Connor. You can’t go there.” She grabs his wrists - and now - she’s struggling to look at him herself, shaking, just slightly. Anger is the easiest emotion - anything else risks vulnerability and when she’s already hurting she doesn’t want to expose herself - to present an easy target. “Please, Connor, please don’t go.”

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😶 - Quietly lean against my muse

Thrill me chill me fulfil me || @detrtcnnr || Still Accepting

The sudden pressure of his weight is a little… Unexpected - but not entirely unwelcome. At least - until she remembers to pretend otherwise. “You doing okay there? Batteries running low or something?” She asks quietly, turning her head to look at him. 

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❝I don’t understand you.❞ -for Francesca

Personality Protocol || @detrtcnnr || Still Accepting

“I’m not surprised.” She says, using her hands to free her hair from under the jacket she’s just pulled on. “I’m complicated, I’m an enigma, wrapped in a mystery. Try to enjoy the feeling of not being completely in control of everything, huh? You’ll only hurt yourself trying otherwise.” Because she runs hot and cold quicker than a faulty boiler and trying to figure it out will likely only bend him all out of shape.

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🌩outside in a terrible storm -for Francesca

Hi welcome to chilli’s || @detrtcnnr || Still Accepting

The rain has long plastered her clothes against her skin - but sitting with an umbrella in a thunderstorm just seems like an invitation to death - and of the two getting a little wet and cold seems far more preferable. Sat on a bench, overlooking the bay she is entirely unaware that she is not actually alone - fully enthralled by the indigo sky above the water and the lightning breaking through the clouds at regular intervals. The storm is really close, maybe two and a half miles out and it’s truly stunning so close - if a little humbling. A flash of lightning throws a shadow, and frowning, she twists to identify the source.