The Plot Twist I Lived Through at MySpace Is Happening Again

Andrew Miles Davis takes you back 20 years to MySpace UK, when people asked whether social media was a fad and why he left the BBC to join a website. He explains why he has almost identical conversations about generative AI today, and introduces the Story Lens method, which he uses to understand change, make sense of complicated situations and make better decisions. He compares the hero's journey, the story most of us know from Disney films, The Hunger Games and The Devil Wears Prada, with the stranger comes to town story, using Shawshank Redemption, Ted Lasso and the Banks family in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air as examples. Andrew argues that social media and AI are both strangers coming to town. When the rules change, people divide, we discover how we really work, mistakes are exposed, and decisions have to be made. The people who benefit most are the ones who experiment, adapt and build a new normal. Andrew leaves you with two questions. What has changed in your working world because of AI, and what decisions have you been putting off? Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for practical AI ideas for marketers and content creators, every day in ten minutes.