Week #1 AI Tsunami
AI and online/digital marketing share two very important principles: They are ever-evolving, and are most certainly only going to grow in prominence as time moves forward. When contemplating the momentum at which AI is growing in each and every day, I can easily relate it to the old American fable of John Henry and The Machine, where a strong, able-bodied driller is pitched against a steam-powered drilling machine in a contest. The tragic irony is that Henry actually wins the contest, but only to die from fatigue afterwards, ending the fable with every driller in the village bein replaced by a drilling machine. When growing up with stories such as these, there absolutely is merit and reason for alarmists to react the way they do. AI doesn't require PTO, maternity leaves, sick days, or pensions, and in business, profit is everything. While the growth for AI is great news for corporations, it's bad news for the average blue-collar worker. But it doesn't have to be that way fo...