Creativity Squared: On Daring to Design a Better Future

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You’re going to enjoy Ep4. Daring to Design the Future: Mother of Cognitive Experience Design Joanna Peña-Bickley is Bringing Infinite Diversity & Infinite Combinations to A.I.!

Named one of Fortune's Most Powerful Women, Joanna’s been at the forefront of A.I. aided generative design and crafting magical experiences, whether inventing one of the first streaming video players for ABC to inventing new ambient intelligent Alexa Devices for Amazon to reimagining the world's mobility for Uber.

She’s created her own framework with principles to ensure that A.I. enhances humans. We’ve added a resources page on the website with a link to it and other great sites including one that lets artists opt-out of their work training future A.I. datasets.

Check out episode 4 to discover how we need to embrace – not ban – A.I., the call for positive A.I. stories, and how Joanna dares to design a better future.

Here’s a quick round-up of news from our community:

• 👁 Creating an ecosystem for content transparency - From Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative (which I’m a member of!), comes this webinar to discover tools that activate the industry standard for content authenticity and provenance, surfacing Content Credentials, digital nutritional labels, or secure tamper-evident information about a piece of content.

• 📸 Intent from Egor at UltraSomething.org - You may know Egor for his 5 Tips for So-Called Street Photographers video, and in this poignant piece, he shares how A.I. won’t be impacting his street photography except in the way it affects the world and therefore what he captures through his camera lens.

• 🚀 OpenAI Creative Collaborator and Episode 3 Guest Chad Nelson shows us his A.I. artwork images in the spread of Vogue Italia!

• 🎤 Matthew Dooley, a fellow Xavier University alum, is hosting an event in Cincinnati next week on Embracing the Power of AI to Transform Social Media Marketing. I’ll also be speaking there on a similar presentation as the one I did in NYC for the Elevate Summit!

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• 🤯 LOTS of A.I. + Creativity News Roundup - just right? Too much?

• 🦾 On Transhumanism - Super fascinating video!

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Listen: Ep4. Daring to Design the Future
Learn how the Mother of Cognitive Experience Design Joanna Peña-Bickley is Bringing Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations to A.I.

“So we fear what we don't know, as human beings. And my encouragement to the creators out there is that we have so much accessibility to these things right now. Go play with ChatGPT. Go tinker with it. It's transformational and it will change the way that you work.”

Hear from Joanna Peña-Bickley in our latest episode of Creativity Squared. She talks to us about being unapologetically herself, her love of Sci-Fi, representation in tech, how A.I. has helped her become a better designer, and about her mission to design the future today by bringing diverse people around the table to change the world. For her, “the future is about dreaming of what a better tomorrow can be.”

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Your A.I. + Creativity News Roundup

With all of the A.I. news flooding our feeds and screens, we’ve got you covered. News to check out includes:

• OpenAI’s Sam Altman Urges A.I. Regulation in Senate Hearing: The tech executive and lawmakers agreed that new A.I. systems must be regulated. The New York Times – He proposed the creation of an agency that issues licenses for the creation of large-scale A.I. models, safety regulations and tests that A.I. models must pass before being released to the public. We full-heartedly agree that more regulation is needed!

• [The Marketing AI Show Episode 47]: Huge Google AI Updates, Teaching Large Language Models to Have Values, and How AI Will Impact Productivity and Labor Marketing Artificial InstituteI – Great coverage on Google A.I. Updates, What’s next for new A.I. assistant Claude, and the impact of AI on productivity and knowledge workers.
  , specifically large language models (LLMs), on the economy and knowledge workers.

• Grimes Unveils Software to Mimic Her Voice, Offering 50-50 Royalties for Commercial Use Pitchfork – Taking fan co-creation to the next level, Grimes tweeted about her new initiative to let fans upload their vocals to be transformed into a GrimesAI-1 voiceprint!

• AiLONE No Mercy / No Malice – Professor Galloway writes on AI-sistants and the rise of AI technology and its impact on human connection and loneliness in the digital age. The loneliness epidemic is real and we need to address along with the other long-list that exists of what needs to improve.

• Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning The New York Times – A provocative paper from researchers at Microsoft claims A.I. technology shows the ability to understand the way people do. However, skeptics cast doubts. Something to follow for sure!

Watch: Transhumanism
“The World’s Most Dangerous Idea” Breakdown from Philosophy Tube

This video explores the philosophy of technology, and how technology can change human beings! With companies like Neurolink working on brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers, this fascinating video explaining transhumanism couldn’t be more timely.

Abigail Thorn, the creator of Philosophy Tube, unravels the intricate web of transhumanism and conspiracy theories, shedding light on the philosophical undercurrents and emotional motivations that drive this captivating phenomenon. Brace yourself for a thought-provoking exploration of the enigmatic relationship between cutting-edge advancements, ideological narratives, and the allure of transcending human limitations.

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