NewMR Tips

Asking Demographic Questions – ChatGPT Tip #1

One way to use ChatGPT is to check your questionnaire design by asking ChatGPT to generate a questionnaire. In the example below, I have asked ChatGPT to show me the most important demographic questions to include in a

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Who writes the better short story, Ray or ChatGPT?

I wanted to check out ChatGPT4’s story writing. So, here is a quick experiment. First, I write a short story about a dystopian future based on AI and market research. Then, I asked ChatGPT4 to improve it. Below are both stories.

Artificial Intelligence

Will AI Steal Our Jobs?

At every event I go to, I hear, at some stage in the discussion, ‘Will AI steal our jobs?” So, here are my thoughts about that question and my views on the prospects for people working in the insights and research industry.

Well, the short answer is yes, but maybe not before you change role, retire, or retrain.

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Bias Runner 2049

Story-with-a-meaning post by Ray Poynter, 11 October 2018 Tom Torquemada was looking forward to his interview today, he was off to the Global Broadcasting Corporation to talk about his work, and he loved his work. Tom was a Bias Runner, […]

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Answers to Questions about Artificial Intelligence

Posted by Ray Poynter 13 September 2018 Note, in response to questions, I have started adding additional answers at the foot of this post – and I will be tweaking some of the existing answers. The post was first uploaded […]

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Asia Pacific Predictions for 2017

The APAC (Asia Pacific) region’s two New Years are relatively close together this year, Western New Year on January 1 and Chinese New Year on January 28. So, this seems like a good moment to ask various people from the […]

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Five Market Research Trends for 2017

At this time of year our thoughts turn to what will excite and challenge us in 2017. Here are my five top picks. Automation This has been one of the key trends for the last couple of years, although much […]

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Driverless Taxis – sneaking up in plain sight

For me the concept of the driverless car exists in my mind as two contradictory elements. Firstly, it exists in my science fiction loving mind, as a key element, along with jetpacks, hover cars, and everybody being slim enough to […]