Tag: conspiracy theory
AI and ethical creative writing
Like many companies, we grapple with the ethics of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in our work, which for us is creating brilliant campaigns for our clients. Over the past year or so, since AI really made itself felt, we’ve hashed and rehashed so many questions, especially around content generation: can we use AI to produce copy for our clients? Should we? If so, how should we? What should we tell them about using AI, if anything? And why should they pay us to use AI when they can do it themselves – for free?
BOOK REVIEW | Private Monaco
When Jack Morgan is invited to the luxurious Monaco coast to set up a new Private office, it seems like the perfect opportunity to relax in an iconic destination. But the vacation is quickly cut short when Jack's partner Justine is abducted. The kidnappers send Jack clear instructions - and a gun. If he wants to see the woman he loves again, he must take a life in exchange for hers.
When judges aren’t
The Western (including South African) judiciary is a peculiar thing. To defy a judge is to commit an offence to society so great that most people do not even consider the merits of the defiance, and rush immediately to demand punishment. The recent controversy around Judge Mandlenkosi Motha is a case in point.
BOOK REVIEW | The Sea Wolves
Detective Isaac Bell battles foreign spies, German U-boats, and an old nemesis to capture a secret technology that could alter the outcome of World War I in the latest adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Clive Cussler.
BOOK REVIEW | Private Beijing
The new thriller in James Patterson's bestselling Private series, featuring private investigator Jack Morgan. A brutal attack. An agent on the run. Private Beijing is left devastated after an attack sees its lead agent, Lee Sheung, captured. With Private now under scrutiny by the Beijing police, Sheung's second-in-command calls on Jack Morgan, global head of the world's finest PI agency, to investigate.
BOOK REVIEW | No Plan B
Jack Reacher, 'the coolest continuing series character' (Stephen King), returns in a brand new, pulse-pounding read from Lee and Andrew Child. The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the No.1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.
BOOK REVIEW | Rationality
Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, and illusions. But cognitive scientist and rational optimist Steven Pinker argues that this cannot be the whole picture.