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SBR - Authors' Podcast

SBR Authors Podcast- Larry Kasanoff- A Filmmaker’s Guide to Creative & Business Mastery

Welcome to the Sunday Book Review, the Authors Podcast! Don’t miss out on this episode of SBR-Author’s Podcast, where Tom Fox sits down with noted Hollywood producer Larry Kasanoff to discuss his upcoming book, A Touch of The Madness.

This podcast episode explores the essential creative and business concepts for anyone in the film producing business. From learning how to persuade someone to say yes and cultivate your creative empowerment, to understanding the need for risk-taking in movies and the potential of 3D movie making and globalizing animation, this episode provides insightful tips and knowledge to help filmmakers create impactful stories. By discussing these topics, the podcast episode explores the ways the creative world can use new and innovative technology to collaborate globally and create powerful stories.

Key Highlights Include

·      Producing Movies

·      Getting to Yes

·      Creative Empowerment

·      Strategic Risk Taking

·      A Touch of Madness

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Larry Kasanoff

A Touch of the Madness

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Compliance and AI

Mastering ChatGPT: Part 4 – Unraveling the Differences Between AI and Human Creativity in Writing

Welcome to a special five-part podcast series on mastering ChatGPT. My special guest throughout this journey is Larry Roberts, an accomplished professional with over 25 years of multifaceted experience. Having initiated his career in the corporate training sphere, he exhibited a remarkable shift to IT, contributing greatly as a Business Intelligence Analyst. His proficiency in harnessing predictive analytics for inventory and sales projections led him to tap into the realm of AI. In 2021, Larry chose to cozy up with podcasting and content creation. His tryst with ChatGPT began in November of the same year, and he has been fully engrossed with it since then. His insights into data models, large language models, and his overall passion for AI are certain to illuminate any forum. Episode 4 considers the differences between AI and human creativity in writing.

 

Educators, teachers, and communicators must be included as we confront the digital age. The rise of AI in education, epitomized by tools like ChatGPT, opens new frontiers in delivering accessible, affordable, and advanced learning experiences. However, this has complexities. There are pertinent steps to be taken – setting clear expectations, aligning AI with institutional policies, maximizing the collaborative capabilities of AI, and ensuring human oversight in AI implementation. By so doing, we can create an enriching learning environment that contributes positively to personal and professional development. This episode explores these issues and how they will impact compliance training and communications.

In this episode, you will be able to:

  • Unlock key strategies to optimize your use of ChatGPT.
  • Acknowledge the importance of crafting a suitable persona and forming the right stage for elevated outcomes.
  • Unravel the issues corporate compliance functions may encounter while using ChatGPT, shedding ample light on effective solutions.
  • Learn how one can effectively utilize ChatGPT in making speeches and presentations.
  • Prognosticate the prospective impacts of ChatGPT and AI on the future compliance training landscape.

Key Highlights:          

  • Setting Expectations
  • Limitations for Corporations
  • Leveraging Chat GPT for training
  • The Human Element and AI

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Larry Roberts

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Mastering ChatGPT: Creativity and ChatGPT

In Part 4 of this five-part blog post series, you will gain valuable insights into the differences between human creativity and AI and how they impact creative writing. Our guest for this exploration, Larry Roberts, has extensive experience exploring AI’s capabilities and limitations in writing. Through his story, we can relate to his journey of using AI tools like ChatGPT to analyze blog posts and generate entire children’s books.

Roberts is a specialist in AI and its impact on creative processes. His deep understanding of Chat GPT and other AI tools has been instrumental in driving the application of AI in content creation. Armed with abundant experience, Larry has been involved in projects where AI tools like Chat GPT are used to write entire books, showcasing the artistic capabilities of AI. He brings a unique perspective, drawn from his intriguing interactions with AI tools and experience in helping to bring individuality to AI-generated content. Mostly known for his thoughtful insights on creativity and AI, Larry continues to explore the intersection of human and artificial creativity.

 Using Chat GPT as a Writing Assistant

A fascinating use of AI applications in the modern world is as writing assistants. Tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT are not only helping writers with content creation, but they are also helping simplify complex topics and augment the writing process. This AI tool incorporates advanced learning models that can generate creative text by prompt engineering or brief user instructions. Using AI to assist in writing, authors and content creators can boost their productivity, simplify complex ideas, and take their creativity to new levels. Roberts shares his first-hand experience with ChatGPT as a writing assistant. He mentions a project where they used this text generator to analyze over 200 blog posts and consolidate the data to write a book. The result was not only time-saving but also a valuable learning experience that illuminated the potential of AI in content creation.

 Implications for Creatives

As AI tools, such as ChatGPT, advance their creative abilities, it raises questions and implications for the creative industry. Content creators and artists must keep up with these innovations to maintain relevance and adaptability. The Turing Test, a measure of an AI’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human, is often used in these discussions. This test can reflect the advancements of AI and its implications, such as the increasing difficulty of differentiating between AI-generated and human-generated content. Roberts brings up the Turing test and its relevance to the discussion about ChatGPT and creativity. He proposes an experiment to gauge if people can differentiate between AI-generated and human-generated content, pointing out that some AI tools can already create awe-inspiring images. This underscores the evolving landscape for creatives and the resulting implications as AI advances.

Chat GPT’s Creative Writing Abilities

AI tools, including ChatGPT, are increasingly proving their worth in creative writing. These applications offer users an exceptional means to generate novel content instantly, which provides endless possibilities for numerous creative outputs. The fact that ChatGPT can provide different perspectives from a simple user prompt underpins its potential in creative writing. This versatility can lead to unexpected and fresh narrative directions, opening many creative possibilities for authors and content creators. Roberts offers an engaging example of ChatGPT’s creative writing abilities. Larry gave ChatGPT a simple prompt about his wife interacting with squirrels in their backyard. Instantaneously, ChatGPT generated an entire children’s book where the narrative centered on divorced squirrels co-parenting their babies – a clear testament to the tool’s potential in content creation.

In summary, by gaining insights into the differences between human creativity and AI, writers and content creators can enhance their writing skills and produce content that truly resonates with their audience. Recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of AI in creative writing allows us to leverage its efficiency and accuracy while preserving our ability to infuse emotions, intuition, and intellect into our work. This balance is crucial in creating meaningful and impactful content that connects with readers more deeply. Join us tomorrow, where we conclude our series by looking at the current business uses of ChatGPT.

For more information on Larry Roberts, check out Red Hat Media.

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Creativity and Compliance

Is It OK to Laugh at Work?

Where does creativity fit into compliance? In more places than you think. Problem-solving, accountability, communication, and connection – they all take creativity. Join Tom Fox and Ronnie Feldman on Creativity and Compliance, part of the award-winning Compliance Podcast Network. In this episode, Tom and Ronnie continue their shorts series on provocative statements on compliance training and communications, followed by discussion. In this episode, Ronnie riffs on the question is it OK to laugh at work? Highlights include:

o   Common excuses for not doing things creatively.
§  we’re a conservative company
§  we take the issues very seriously
§  it doesn’t fit our culture
§  my boss doesn’t have a sense of humor
§  we’re global
o   How to build a business case because entertainment and learning is more effective.
§  emotional connections
§  memory and recall
§  stands out in a noisy environment
§  It open people up
§  It helps increase airtime and exposure
o   The Fun Theory
o   Other examples in life

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60-Second Communication & Awareness Shorts – A variety of short, customizable, quick-hitter “commercials” including songs & jingles, video shorts, newsletter graphics & Gifs, and more. Promote integrity, compliance, the Code, the helpline and the E&C team as helpful advisors and coaches.

Workplace Tonight Show! Micro-learning – a library of 1-10-minute trainings and communications wrapped in the style of a late-night variety show, that explains corporate risk topics and why employees should care.

Custom Live & Digital Programing – We’ll develop programming that fits your culture and balances the seriousness of the subject matter with a more engaging delivery.

Tales from the Hotline – check out some samples.