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- 0:00Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
- 0:03Speaker 2: I want to talk about creative geniuses. Vince Gilligan is
- 0:05Speaker 2: the brains behind Breaking Bad, which many call the best
- 0:08Speaker 2: show TV has ever seen. Is ay Tan yep, I
- 0:11Speaker 2: know you're both serious fans.
- 0:12Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I loved Breaking Bad and I'm loving Pluribus.
- 0:15Speaker 3: Look, I'll just say right now, my husband Michael dressed
- 0:17Speaker 3: up as Walter White for Halloween one year.
- 0:20Speaker 2: Well. Vince also made Better Call Saul. So Vince is
- 0:22Speaker 2: the guy. If he has an opinion on storytelling and
- 0:25Speaker 2: how AI will impact it, then you listen.
- 0:27Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, And perhaps.
- 0:29Speaker 2: Not surprisingly, Vince not's an AI fan. He calls the
- 0:32Speaker 2: creative spark one of the most precious things that humans have.
- 0:36Speaker 2: Why give that away?
- 0:37Speaker 3: It's not about the entertainment industry, he says. We're all storytellers,
- 0:41Speaker 3: whether you're winning Emmys for it, or entertaining friends with
- 0:44Speaker 3: what happened that day.
- 0:46Speaker 1: Or painting or making music, or of course writing.
- 0:50Speaker 2: But the main reason Vince rejects AI storytelling is that
- 0:52Speaker 2: AI is not conscious. It doesn't even know it's telling
- 0:55Speaker 2: a story, like his toaster doesn't know it's toasting. Episode
- 0:59Speaker 2: one of Skilligan's new show Florabus is on Apple TV
- 1:03Speaker 2: that's
- 1:04Speaker 3: Direct from Hollywood.