David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: Ok, so you’ve spent your career television without AI, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had that tool to solve those thorny problems…
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: … Or saying…
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: … Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don’t think AI can challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you’re trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you’re stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an AI and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I’d rather put a gun in my mouth.
To be fair, power point - if you don’t regularly use it and especially if you’re using a ‘template’ someone made - is a miserable experience.
Add four words to a sentence - why did the fucking font size change and why did an unrelated text box shrink?!?!? I just need to add ‘this has been approved’ to my status deck.
Why can’t I update a blob of text? Oh, it’s in the Slide Master, which has exactly one instance of this slide type in the deck.
/rant. I haven’t lowered myself to using copilot to make these changes, though.