When I'm confronting a talk and thinking about having to put together yet another slide deck I do groan inwardly, but once in the process I realize how important it is to think through what I'll be sharing with the audience and why. It's a great exercise in clarifying my message, particularly as I'm going to do it in real-time in front of an audience, unlike writing where I may never know the audience's reaction in a definitive way. Yes, it can feel like drudge work, but it's necessary drudge work.
Interesting discussion. One thing you don’t mention about Gamma (and I imagine the others) is that the user can edit the slides AI spits out. This way, producing the slides feels, to me at least, more like a collaboration. I also think that audience matters as does the subject of the talk. I use Gamma in my Digital Storytelling class. I am transparent with my students when I use it and allow them limited use with transparency a requirement for them, too. This way we talk about why we use AI for some tasks and not others and interrogate those assumptions together. I am, like you, a curious skeptic. I am going to share this piece with them :)
Yes, the tools invite interactivity in their current form. My concerns isn't as assistants but if they are used by AI agents for end-to-end production, like Devin. That's why I framed the presentation section as role-playing as an agent.
Yes, for sure. I had to talk with two students in another class who handed in what I've come to think of as Glacial Robot Essays rather than the imperfect human-generated short answers that were required for the assignment. Talk about end-to-end production. Sigh.
When I'm confronting a talk and thinking about having to put together yet another slide deck I do groan inwardly, but once in the process I realize how important it is to think through what I'll be sharing with the audience and why. It's a great exercise in clarifying my message, particularly as I'm going to do it in real-time in front of an audience, unlike writing where I may never know the audience's reaction in a definitive way. Yes, it can feel like drudge work, but it's necessary drudge work.
Interesting discussion. One thing you don’t mention about Gamma (and I imagine the others) is that the user can edit the slides AI spits out. This way, producing the slides feels, to me at least, more like a collaboration. I also think that audience matters as does the subject of the talk. I use Gamma in my Digital Storytelling class. I am transparent with my students when I use it and allow them limited use with transparency a requirement for them, too. This way we talk about why we use AI for some tasks and not others and interrogate those assumptions together. I am, like you, a curious skeptic. I am going to share this piece with them :)
Yes, the tools invite interactivity in their current form. My concerns isn't as assistants but if they are used by AI agents for end-to-end production, like Devin. That's why I framed the presentation section as role-playing as an agent.
Yes, for sure. I had to talk with two students in another class who handed in what I've come to think of as Glacial Robot Essays rather than the imperfect human-generated short answers that were required for the assignment. Talk about end-to-end production. Sigh.