Jeremy Utley, an adjunct professor at Stanford specializing in creativity, and Kian Gohar, founder of Geolab and bestselling author, dive deep into the world of AI as a creative collaborator. They emphasize treating AI as a teammate rather than a tool for rote answers. Discover their five-step methodology, Fix-It, which enhances idea generation through iterative dialogue. The discussion reveals how rethinking AI's role can unlock untapped innovation potential, making it an essential partner in brainstorming and problem-solving.
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AI as a Conversational Partner
Teams using AI for problem-solving must follow certain practices to truly excel.
Most teams underutilize AI's potential, treating it like an oracle instead of a collaborative partner.
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The Effort of Collaboration with AI
Teams achieving better outcomes with AI often feel worse due to the effort required to change their workflow.
Those expecting magic from AI underperform, while those embracing the work of collaboration outperform.
question_answer ANECDOTE
Lease Negotiation with AI
Jeremy's friend used ChatGPT to help negotiate a lease by having it interview both sides.
This 'interview' process provided context to the AI, leading to more relevant recommendations.
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How Radical Adaptability Separates the Best from the Rest
Keith Ferrazzi
This book, written by Keith Ferrazzi, Kian Gohar, and Noel Weyrich, provides a comprehensive roadmap for leaders to navigate the challenges and opportunities of the post-pandemic workplace. It emphasizes the importance of radical adaptability, collaboration, enterprise agile practices, team resilience, active foresight, and future-proofing business models. Based on a global research initiative involving thousands of executives and innovators, the book offers practical strategies and real-world examples to help organizations thrive in an era of rapid change.
Join Matt Abrahams with creativity and innovation experts Jeremy Utley and Kian Gohar to explore the transformative potential of AI in the realms of creativity and problem-solving.
If you treat artificial intelligence like an oracle, you’ll likely be disappointed. But if you treat it like a teammate, Utley and Gohar say you’ll be surprised just how helpful a collaborator it can be.
Utley, an adjunct professor at the Stanford d.school, and Gohar, a bestselling author, keynote speaker, and futurist, have researched how teams can integrate AI into existing workflows to generate more creative ideas and streamline problem-solving. As they’ve found, large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can be powerful tools for innovation. But without knowing how to implement them, “Most teams leave the vast majority of their innovation potential on the table,” Utley says. In a new white paper, he and Gohar illuminate the path teams can take to use generative AI as a “conversation partner” and transform their brainstorming efforts as a result.
In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Utley and Gohar discuss how innovators can stop viewing AI as a magic 8-ball, and start treating it as a companion — one ready to roll up its sleeves and dig deep for new ideas.
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