Enhancing Creativity and Productivity with AI

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Overview

This section explores the impact of generative AI on productivity and creativity, with an emphasis on how GenAI can assist in various stages of the writing process, such as generating ideas, providing inspiration, and ensuring consistency in style. Additionally, it addresses the complexities of GenAI’s influence on writing, including legal concerns, questions of originality, and the balance between using AI as a tool and preserving the integrity of human creativity and learning. It explores the following tools: Arc browser, Superhuman email, Descript, and AlteredAI.

Videos

Productivity and Creativity

Arc Browser

Superhuman Email

Descript

Funny story – my AI process made some slight alterations to the supposedly unedited demo video in the demonstration above. I’m sharing the full unedited and edited copies below so you can see the difference clearly.

Altered AI

Suggested Readings

Suggested Assignment

Assignment Description: From AI-Generated Essay to TED Talk

Overview:

In this assignment, you will explore the intersection of AI-generated content and public speaking. You will prompt a Generative AI (GAI) to create a 500-word essay on a topic of your choice, within academic, professional, civic, or personal contexts. After reviewing the AI-generated essay, you will revise it, and deliver the content in the style of a TED Talk, using Descript to edit your video. You should edit out any verbal pauses or disfluencies, and edit eye contact. This exercise will help you evaluate the utility of AI in creating engaging and meaningful discourse, and enhance your video editing skills.

Objectives:

  1. Utilize AI technology to generate written content on a specific topic.
  2. Enhance your editing and content refinement skills by adapting AI-generated text into a compelling spoken presentation.
  3. Critically assess the effectiveness of AI-generated content in making insightful points and engaging an audience.
  4. Develop skills in video editing and production using Descript.

Instructions:

  1. Select a Topic: Choose a topic that interests you within the suggested contexts (academic, professional, civic, or personal). For example, “Urban Planning in Houston” as a civic topic or “Trends in Automotive Manufacturing” as a professional topic.
  2. Generate the Essay: Use a GenAI tool to produce a 500-word essay on your selected topic.
  3. Revise and Transform: Revise the AI-generated essay to suit a TED Talk-style presentation. Focus on making the language engaging and ensuring that the content makes insightful points without being repetitive.
  4. Record and Edit Video: Record a video of yourself delivering the revised essay.
  5. AI Video/Audio Effects: Use Descript and/or AlteredAI to enhance your video. This can include editing out pauses and filler in your speech, and adding AI generated/enhanced voices, and/or stock images and video from Descript.
  6. Reflection: Write a brief reflection on the process, evaluating how well-suited the GenAI’s output was for your purposes, how you adapted the content for your presentation, and your experience using Descript for video editing.

Submission Requirements:

  • A copy of the original AI-generated essay.
  • The revised script for the TED Talk.
  • A video recording of your presentation, edited using Descript (3-5 minutes).
  • A written reflection (200-300 words).

Rubric for AI-Generated Essay to TED Talk Assignment

Criteria Excellent (90-100%) Good (80-89%) Satisfactory (70-79%) Needs Improvement (<70%)
Quality of AI Essay Essay is well-developed, insightful, and closely aligns with the chosen topic. Essay adequately addresses the topic with a good level of insight. Essay covers the topic but lacks depth or insight. Essay does not effectively address the topic or lacks coherence.
Adaptation for TED Talk Presentation is highly engaging, effectively revised, and eloquently delivered. Presentation is clear and revised well but could be more engaging. Presentation meets basic standards of clarity and engagement. Presentation is poorly revised or lacks clarity and engagement.
Video Presentation Video is professionally edited using Descript, with excellent verbal and non-verbal communication. Video is clear and well-edited with good communication skills. Video is adequate but lacks polish in editing or communication. Video is poorly edited with significant issues in delivery.
Reflection and Analysis Reflection is insightful, providing a deep analysis of the AI’s effectiveness, the adaptation process, and the use of Descript. Reflection provides a good analysis with relevant observations. Reflection is satisfactory, covering basic thoughts on the process. Reflection lacks depth, showing little understanding or thought.

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