Category Archives: Knowledge

The World’s Most Fascinating Creative Problem: How AI Safety Researchers Are Avoiding a Robot Apocalypse

In the last episode, I introduced you to how AI research sheds new light on our creative process. If you haven’t already listened to it, I recommend checking it out before listening to this episode.  To give you a short recap: For an AI to function, it needs to know A) What options it has

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Creativity In AI: What Creative People Can Learn From Artificial Intelligence

This is going to be my first 2-part series on the show. This week, I’ll introduce you to the field of creative AI’s. We’ll learn how we program AI’s to be creative, and how we can apply that knowledge to our own creativity. Next week, I’ll share with you a really interesting problem that AI

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3 Components of Amazing Creativity

Componential Theory (Episode #53) TRANSCRIPT: Today we’re talking about the 3 components of awesome creativity.  So there’s a lot of ways to talk about what makes really creative people so creative. We’ve already talked about the Geneplore Model, which is what’s called a “Stage Model of Creativity.” Stage Models describe creativity as “A leads to

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Experiments: Your #1 Creative Tool

Experimenting is one of the most important actions you can take as a creative person. What I love most about running an experiment is that it implies that you don’t know what will happen. You might have a guess, but you aren’t sure.  If you want to explore the unknown or be an innovator, get

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Knowledge & Creativity: That Time Henry Ford Argued In Court That He Wasn’t Stupid

In the summer of 1919, Henry Ford, the automobile tycoon, was placed on the witness stand ready to be questioned by a defense attorney for the Chicago Tribune. It was an odd case to be in court, even by today’s standards. Ford was suing the Chicago Tribune for slander. Specifically, for being called an ignorant

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