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\n She\u2019s on the front lines.
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Emma Thompson doesn\u2019t want a Word document to put words in her mouth. On The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Monday, October 27, the Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter shared that she feels an \u201cintense irritation\u201d about AI. She explained to Colbert that she writes longhand because she believes there is a \u201cconnection between the brain and the hands,\u201d but will transfer her completed work to a computer afterward. \u201cRecently, the Word document is constantly saying, \u2018Would you like me to rewrite that for you?\u2019\u201d Thompson said, in an apparent reference to Microsoft\u2019s AI-powered assistant Copilot<\/a>. \u201cAnd so I end up just going, \u2018I don\u2019t need you to fucking rewrite what I\u2019ve just written! Will you fuck off? Just fuck off! I\u2019m so annoyed.\u2019\u201d And speaking of the link between the brain and the body,\u00a0Thompson\u2019s clenched fists by the end of this story are certainly helpful at emphasizing her thoughts.<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t the first time she\u2019s gotten testy about technology. Thompson recalled that when she was writing the Academy Award\u2013winning screenplay for the 1995 period drama Sense and Sensibility, there was a moment when the computer appeared to turn all of her writing into \u201chieroglyphs.\u201d She went to Stephen Fry in her dressing gown, and it ultimately took him eight hours before he got the computer to spit out the script in \u201cone long sentence.\u201d Looking back, Thompson reflected that it felt like the machine had hidden her work \u201con purpose.\u201d Basically, if humans and robots end up battling it out one day, we won\u2019t be surprised to see Thompson on the front lines trying to get her lick back.<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She\u2019s on the front lines. Photo: Scott Kowalchyk\/CBS Emma Thompson doesn\u2019t want a Word document to put words…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[291,434,435,18,53241,117,19,17,5,82,8055],"class_list":{"0":"post-150394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-celebrity","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-emma-thompson","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115454309291389560","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}