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ChatBCG: Generative AI For Slides

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It's a good prototype, but not super impressed with the output. It seems like a rehash of ChatGPT and assignment of generic stock photos.

For this to really take off, it should include collaborative bot editing -- that is, ask the bot to change slide #2 with several iterations.

Made a similar one, but for generating Stable Diffusion-illustrated narrated slideshows.

Haven’t made a web interface for it as it’s somewhat expensive to run, but here is example output: https://www.youtube.com/@artificialinsanity/videos

I also have a “producer” script which comes up with the ideas for the video topics for the other script to make.

I suggest you use better voices. Here is a child voice from NaturalReader

https://vocaroo.com/16ifZx5kH5WX

It's using text-davinci-003. (I learned this from the /stream endpoint.)

Really nicely formatted. The images are a bit inconsistent, it would be nice to be able to regenerate a particular image again to get a more suitable one for the text.

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Still happening 10h later. Are there any examples posted or linked to view?

Ja… same for the last 12 hs. Absolute trash

No need to be negative. It's a fun project and I'm sure you'll get a chance to try it.

Ja. I was frustrated…

Oh my goodness, I typed "My Butt", and then couldn't catch my breath laughing.

A+, that was a journey I wasn't prepared for =P

Sadly overloaded by the time I tried to see what made it funny.

I'm going to just imagine it was an over-serious presentation about your butt being a fantastic investment opportunity with unicorn potential, offering growth of 35% per year by providing a zero-carbon solution to gas shortages.

All illustrated by DALL•E.

With the right group, this could make for a great Powerpoint Karaoke[1] night.

1. https://www.powerpointkaraoke.com/

Yus!

I would love to try it, but I’ll wait until the registration pop up is gone and the HN attention stops DOSing the backend. But from the sound of the website description this is a next and welcome step in the semi intelligentification of anything

Great name.

what does it stand for ?

BCG is a premier management consulting firm, like McKinsey. Start with any MBA stereotype, add more slides and coke.

coke like in cocaine ?

narcan and narcan accessories

Boston Consulting Group iirc.

Big Coked Gorillas

Not really but I read it as a reference to a tuberculosis vaccine, the BCG vaccine :D

Lawsuit waiting to happen.

Sounds like a job for ChatSTB

This looks like high schooler slides. BCG is still safe.

They don’t mention they are using the iA Presenter open beta for all the heavy lifting of slide design and layout.

For full stack web developers out there what stack and software architecture would you build this apps in?

Sun

Monitoring

I was surprised it used half of the slides of "obama drone strikes" about the willful neglect for the human toll of civilian deaths [0], in some cases ~90%, (find the bad guy, bomb the entire block). I was expecting more of a synopsis of what happened rather than the issues with it.

The creators should take a look the only cool TechCrunch Disrupt winner, Qwiki, which turned searches in to audio and visual slides [1]. But Yahoo bought it for $50 million, turned down Google's offer thereafter of $150 million, then buried it forever a year later.

[0] https://www.cfr.org/blog/obamas-final-drone-strike-data

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-ZxO4e6Oak

Edit: The 90% refers to a specific date range of "air strikes": "Operation Haymaker, show that between January 2012 and February 2013, U.S. special operations airstrikes killed more than 200 people. Of those, only 35 were the intended targets. During one five-month period of the operation, according to the documents, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets." [2]

[2] https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-comp...

According to [0] the toll of civilian deaths is 9% not ~90%:

> The 542 drone strikes that Obama authorized killed an estimated 3,797 people, including 324 civilians.

Thank you. Edited to be very specific instead of a blanket percentage.

I don't know how significant this is, but "not the intended target" and "civilian" could mean very different things. In particular, it seems likely that a strike targeted at a terrorist leader has a high chance of killing their aides or others in the car, who are probably members of the terror cell, even though they weren't the actual target of the strike.

It asked for a signup after my first try which is not appropriate for a joke site imo. Incognito mode seems to solve it. Is it because of a fear of bots? It would be nice if there was a better way to deal with it than asking for signup

It's an upsell

I didn’t even get the first try due to server overload — and every subsequent try wants my google account. No sale.

Hilarious. It really goes to show how little intelligence or innovative thinking is needed for entry-level positions in McKinsey, BCG, etc.

It's surprising more people don't go work at those places then, they pay very well

They select based on salesmanship, "polish" and "pedigree".

How does it do that, exactly? I asked it to provide an overview of the consumer banking market size in Indonesia and it came out with a few bullets on challenges. Hardly intelligent.

Hiring McKinsey is a surefire way to burn a lot of money and get nothing done (see all government contracts they get).

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