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Excellent tip regarding introductory collaboration sessions with AI
- YouTube
Title — How Stanford Teaches AI-Powered Creativity in Just 13 Minutes
Blurb —
Jeremy Utley of Stanford shares how anyone—not just techies—can learn to collaborate with AI for real-world creative and productivity breakthroughs.
Structured Summary
The Power of Unconscious Creativity
- Innovation often strikes when we’re not focused on work—what Utley calls the “bed, bus, and bathtub” effect.
- He recounts a scene of Winston Churchill dictating from the bathtub to highlight how voice, context, and intent were once luxuries of power—but today, even “the poorest villager in Palo Alto” can replicate that with AI.
AI as Creative Collaborator, Not Just a Tool
- Jeremy Utley, a Stanford instructor in creativity and AI, aims to teach non-technical professionals how to collaborate with AI.
- He co-authored Idea Flow, a pre-AI book on idea generation, only to pivot into AI study once ChatGPT launched.
- His focus: understanding how AI impacts individual, team, and organizational creativity.
Chapter 1: Don’t Ask AI—Let It Ask You
- Prompt smarter by asking AI how to prompt it better.