Peter Drucker has described management as a liberal art.

Liberal because it deals with basics of knowledge, self-knowledge, wisdom, and leadership.

Art because it deals with practice, and application.

I wonder what Drucker thinks of movie directors.

I remember being in high school in 2014. I woke up, opened YouTube on my iPhone 5, and Praying with /\nger, Manoj “Night” Shyamalan’s first movie, was there!

Praying With Anger was written, directed and starring a young Shyamalan when he was still an NYU student, managing a large budget, a crew in India, and a story that was not fully cooked.

It was an educational experience to see the film.

If I had ChatGPT in 2014, I would have asked about Shyamalan, or Asian American directors I met in film school like Tanuj Chopra, or researched and learned about like Justin Lin, Ang Lee, and Piyush Dinker Pandya.

But the technology will not write or direct the picture! The machine can simply be trained.

The AI is more like a “copilot,” as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told Andrew Ross Sorkin.

Praying With Anger or The Last Airbender, or Lady in the Water, could have benefitted from ChatGPT, or filmmaking AI tools recommended by Curious Refuge.

South Park used ChatGPT. Why can’t you?

In the video games, MegaMan is an AI that helps the main character, Lan, make choices.

But Lan, your “avatar,” not MegaMan, makes the choices.

ACTION POINT: You are the pilot, AI is just your “intern.”