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From Tools to Collaborators: The Evolution of AI in Creative Industries

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It was the night before my presentation, and I was staring at my laptop screen, feeling the weight of impending doom. As a graduate student at Berkeley, I had learned to juggle multiple deadlines, but this one felt different. The task was simple: create slides for a presentation, convey my research findings on emerging technologies in public health, and move on to the next thing. But as the hours ticked by, I realized something wasn’t clicking. My slides were flat. I spent hours trying to make them visually appealing, but all I managed to create were walls of text and dull, lifeless images. They weren’t even bad enough to be memorable. They were just plain forgettable. At that moment, I found myself wondering if I was truly cut out for this creative work. Here I was, trying to communicate complex ideas to my classmates and professors, yet my slides felt like an afterthought. It was something I was doing just to get by. Then, I remembered something a friend had mentioned earlier that we

This exploration grew out of my final project for INFO 290: Applied Generative AI and Large Language Models , a course I took at UC Berkeley with Dr. Francis Coyle (we all call him Dr. C). For more of Dr. C’s thoughts on generative AI, check out his YouTube channel 💡 It was the night before my presentation, and I was staring at my laptop screen, feeling the weight of impending doom. As a graduate student at Berkeley, I had learned to juggle multiple deadlines, but this one felt different. The task was simple: create slides for a presentation, convey my research findings on emerging technologi

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