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DUMBED-DOWN : '' NOW - JUNIPER - THANKS FOR THE MESSAGE. Tell me : how is the world faring on A.I.? Say, how is Proud Pakistan faring against Great India? The rest of the world? What's Gen Z thinking globally ? ''

The A.I. company Anthropic recently opened a pop-up in the West Village it designated a '' Zero Slop Zone. '' On offer for visitors were baseball caps with the word '' thinking '' on them, coffee and hard copies of a nearly 15,000 word essay by the company's chief executive, with the title ''Machines of Loving Grace.''

Use of phones and laptops was discouraged, although to get in you were asked to show you had downloaded Claude, Anthropic's large language model. Instead, humans were meant to hang out with other humans.

ANTHROPIC'S marketing stunt is the most obvious example yet of A.I. companies recent '' anti-A.I. A.I. strategy,'' as I call it - an apparent bid to reckon with the public's negative view of the technology.

Only 17 percent of American adults think A.I.'s impact on the country will be positive in the next two decades, according to a Pew Research Center survey this spring.

Less than a quarter think A.I.will benefit these personally. A.I. companies seem to have tacitly acknowledged this skepticism are changing how they present themselves.

Some of the most consumer-facing ones are marketing their flagship products as creativity triggers that are fundamentally human and appreciative of the analog - even as these attributes stand in stark opposition to what A.I. is and does.

A.I. is far from human. '' What is A.I.,'' as the poet Christian Wiman asks, ''but the culmination of the notion that the brain is a machine?" Yet the attempt to reframe A.I. agents like Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT as about connection and authenticity may well determine whether some of the biggest A.I. companies can continue making major inroads with wary consumers.

If this tactic works, it may indicate that the public - or at least many of the 52 percent of Americans who actively use A.I. large language models - are susceptible to double think.

How, after all, can a machine be human? How can the digital be analog? How can a device-free space represent an A.I. company?

Anthropic brands Claude as a '' thinking partner'' - a complement to creativity rather than a replacement for it. Open A.I. has made a similar pivot. Its ads no longer argue that ChatGPT is primarily a cutting-edge, historically significant technology but rather an aid to a quiet, analog aesthetic that seemingly has little to do with A.I.

Smaller A.I. firms have followed suit, building products around its supposedly human possibilities.

OpenAI shot its latest TV ads on warm, 35-millimeter film. In one 30-second spot, set on a road trip, siblings smile and banter amid an idyllic American landscape. About halfway through, an A.I. prompt appears onscreen :

'' Help me plan a trip with my sister over break.'' As the pair drive off what is presumably ChatGPT's answer begins to scroll down the screen :

'' Got it - a Blue Ridge Mountain road trip is the ultimate combo of breathtaking views, spontaneous adventures and great eats.''

A Neil Diamond song plays. The scroll concludes, '' Do you want me to draft a playlist for when you hit the road?''

The commercials don't show anyone bent over a phone or a laptop or even engaging with ChatGPT. It's unusual for companies to advertise a product without ever showing the item they're trying to sell.

Is Artificial Intelligence unpopular or uncool? So companies are making ads that don't even bother to show their own products. Will it pay off ? "

The Honour and Serving of the Latest Global Operational Research on A.I., Future and Marketing strategy continues. The World Students Society thanks Cody Delistraty.

With respectful dedication to the Global Founder Framers of The World Students Society, and then Students, Professors and Teachers of the world.

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