In Episode 26, the crew discusses personal creative experiments they aspire to try and the future impact of creativity. Each member shares their ambitions, from singing in public to writing a book, while reflecting on the evolving role of creativity amid advancing technology. Join the conversation and share your thoughts on creativity’s future!

Greg
00:03
Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Creative Work Hour podcast. Today is November 26, 2024. My name is Greg. And in the room we have Alessandra, myself, we have Devin, we have Bobbie W, we have Dr.

Greg
00:20
Tamika, we have Andy, we have Bobby B, we have Bailey, we have Shadows Pub, we have Ela, and we have Adrienne. And this month is the national podcast post month and we are doing an entry. This is our entry for today. I'll ask a question just to get the conversation started and we'll see where we go from there.

Greg
00:42
So my question today is, is there a creative experiment that you've always wanted to try? Is there a creative experiment that you've always wanted to try? Is there a creative experiment that you have always wanted to try? And I'll go to Alessandra.

Alessandra
00:58
Okay, I'll start because you asked me, but I'm a little bit like that emoji. I don't know what we call it, but it's the 1 where the hands are over the face and like 1 eye is peeking out. So my creative experiment would be to sing in public.

Alessandra
01:15
Now I've done that before, but it's been a minute. And let's just say that my blue jean size was much smaller. So there we go.

Greg
01:29
Thank you. How about you, Devin?

Devin
01:34
Thanks, Greg. I think it would be probably doing some sort of immersion, some sort of retreat. Writers are really good about this.

Devin
01:44
I'll have a week-long writers retreat, poetry retreat, where you're really just writing and thinking about writing and talking to other people about writing for an extended period of time. I've always thought that has to be a really good creative experience and kind of help you level up.

Greg
02:03
Awesome. Andy, how about you?

Andy
02:08
Well, I've been thinking about filming, you know, doing a film of some kind, you know, it would be really interesting. That's an expression I haven't done, you know, so that will be really exciting. I've done theatre and musicals and stuff like that, but not film, so that will be my fear.

Greg
02:30
Thank you. Bobby B, how about yourself?

Bobby. B
02:34
I have prepped up to where I'm about ready to get on stage for a 5 minute Moth. So I've actually thrown my name in the hat twice, didn't get picked, but I am definitely right there. So that'll be it.

Greg
03:00
Thank you. Bobbie W. We are asking if you, is there a creative experiment you've always wanted to try?

Bobbie. W
03:11
I was grappling with this question, but The only thing I can really think of is I'd love to be able to run a marathon.

Greg
03:19
Ooh, right. Right. I couldn't run a marathon if I tried.

Bobbie. W
03:29
Neither could I

Greg
03:32
try, but it wouldn't, wouldn't get off the ground. Bailey, how about you?

Bailey
03:39
I don't know if there's any new things I would want to try but I guess I would just want to finish a book I'm writing.

Greg
03:48
That would be good. There we go. Shadows, how about you?

Greg
03:50
Creative experiment.

Shadows Pub
03:52
Now let's see. Since I considered a public service not to sing, so that that's off the table. Don't do Actic.

Shadows Pub
04:01
I guess the thing that I just started is probably it, which is creating a database to integrate into a website. I've done a lot of websites, but I've never done a dynamic 1 that uses a database. So I guess that'd be it. Right.

Greg
04:21
Is that the SQL, my SQL you were

Shadows Pub
04:23
referring to?

Bobby. B
04:24
Uh-huh.

Greg
04:24
And I

Shadows Pub
04:25
I haven't installed the web server, but I will.

Greg
04:28
Awesome. Ela, how about you?

Ela
04:32
I would love to learn to play the bagpipes. I am about 70, 80% Scottish, if not more. And I've always wanted to learn to play the bagpipes.

Ela
04:41
I know several other instruments and I sing, but that is 1 experiment I've never undertaken. I don't know, I just keep poking at it. I'm like, I want to try it. And then I just never actually go out and get a chanter and start trying.

Ela
04:54
But at 1 point, maybe that is my dream.

Greg
04:57
Wow. That'd be so cool. Adrienne, How about you?

Adrienne
05:04
It's actually brought up something that I totally forgot that I always wanted to do. I haven't done it since I was a teenager, which is not really like a rap battle, but what we used to do because the 90s was big on, you know, rap, which to me was the same thing as poetry. It's just in a different form to talk about what was going on in Black people's lives and what they were facing.

Adrienne
05:23
And what we used to do as my friends, we'd all sit in a circle and we'd pick a topic and we'd do 3 or 4 verses and then the next person would have to continue with another 3 or 4 verses. And we just go around. And I love to do that now because I think rap has really gone away. I don't know, it might sound old, but you know, everybody says that about the music, right? Like in my day.

Adriennetim
05:45
But I think that it's kind of changed a lot, but we need to get back to what what what it originally was for was for self-expression, right, to actually uplift people, talk about what's really happening, and to do that with maybe like kids or teenagers, because it helps also with you to be able to increase your vocabulary, Increase the way to self-express yourself through words or to communicate those in a different way.

Greg
06:08
Right. Awesome. Dr. Tamika, how about you?

Greg
06:11
Is there a creative experiment that you've always wanted to try?

Dr. Tamika
06:15
I think I'm doing it right now in architecture school. And, you know, making it through, hoping for the best, but, you know, trying my best. And I'll continue to work on it this hour.

Greg
06:30
Fantastic. If I had to answer that question, I think I would say I've always wanted to try my hand acting and making my camera not do crazy things, which it just did. So, okay, we have time for another quick question, just for fun. And what role will creativity play in the coming years, do we think?

Greg
06:54
Alessandra?

Alessandra
06:57
Oh, it's my guiding light. But it's not that the actual, actually doing the creating is the guiding light. It's the people who are creating that are my guiding light.

Alessandra
07:12
And then when I just kind of look down at what's on my own plate, I'm like, oh, well, if he can do that and he can do that and she can do that and she can do that and they can do that and they can do that, then I can do this thing that's on my plate. Okay. I just can't do it during the first hour.

Greg
07:32
 Dr. Tamika, you have your hand up.

Dr. Tamika
07:35
Thank you. 1 thing that, so I attended Harvard for 2 years and we had a segment where we met with some of the most brilliant minds across the globe. And 1 thing that, it was an AI business intelligence program.

Dr. Tamika
07:51
And 1 thing that 1 of the panelists stated was AI can never replace creativity. And I almost challenged that for a second because I'm thinking, ChatGTP does a really good job when I need it to. But I had to sit down and really ponder. And that's the beauty of it.

Dr. Tamika
08:11
I think creativity will be around for a very long time because AI may not have the bandwidth to fulfill the human capacity to create. So that's my answer and I'm sticking with it.

Greg
08:33
How about you, Devin?

Greg
08:38
What role will creativity play in the world in the coming years?

Devin
08:43
I think The role will be to define creativity, taking what Dr. Tamika said, we will be defining what is human creativity versus machine learning. And that's, you know, quite the unknown frontier.

Devin
09:01
And it's gonna be exciting if you look at it from 1 perspective. It could be an amazingly creative experience as we work with AI to redefine and re-experience creativity or it could be very frightening as AI becomes better and better at doing the things we might consider being creative now. So, you know, I think it'll be a little bit of both to be a little exciting, a little terrifying. Right.

Greg
09:28
We'll have to wait and see. Bobbie, W, how about you?

Bobbie. W
09:35
I'm gonna continue that thought with AI. And I think that as technology advances, human creativity is gonna be more and more important and that human touch that everyone misses and that it's going to create different types of communities and different types of friendships globally that we probably can't even imagine at this point. And yeah, AI terrifies me just from a job perspective.

Bobbie. W
10:10
It's going to be what, 4 people working in the world using AI. So that's what. But we'll work to make sure that doesn't happen.

Greg
10:24
Right. Andy, how about you? What do you think?

Andy
10:33
I think we will define creativity out of our own minds, where we stand and where we take, because we are creative souls, right?

Greg
10:49
Absolutely, Absolutely. Bobby B, how about you?

Bobby. B
10:55
Well, personally, I should be releasing at least 1 book next year. So that's quite a leap of creativity for me. I'm really looking forward to that.

Bobby. B
11:08
I think AI is going in so many wonderful directions and some not so, but I think people are finally realizing, okay, it's a tool and lean on it appropriately. And I'm not afraid of it by any means. Right.

Greg
11:30
Thank you. Bailey, how about you? What role will creativity play in the world in the coming years?

Bailey
11:38
I think that if AI becomes the thing that a lot of us fear and takes all of our jobs and does scary stuff, then I think that human creativity will be a new way of exploring and being useful. If AI does take, you know, a portion of what we're used to doing, then I think that 1 of the best ways that we can explore what to do next is creativity. And just thinking about that alone is a creative act.

Bailey
12:11
So I think that creativity will always be here and may even become more important in the future.

Greg
12:19
Absolutely. Shadows, how about you?

Shadows Pub
12:23
Well, having worked with it for the last year and a half, 2 years, AI most definitely can be creative as long as I give it the directions to be creative. It doesn't get nuanced unless you actually give it the direction to have nuance, then it can identify them. And I don't know that AI is going to take our jobs as much as people who know AI are going to take them.

Greg
12:52
Right, absolutely. Yeah, prompt engineering, being able to extrapolate the things that you want the AI to do. Absolutely.

Greg
13:01
Ela, how about you?

Ela
13:03
I think 1 of the things we're going to find is that creativity and human touch is going to be a lot more important. Like I don't find, for example, AI is creative in and of itself. You put into a machine what you want and it spits out based on an algorithm that's based on already created works.

Ela
13:22
So I think separating ourselves from that and finding our creativity is going to be even more important. Like you notice the human touch in things just has a value that I don't think can ever be replaced by algorithms. And I think it's just going to be really more valued. We might go through a phase where we really fall into AI and the cheapness of it and different things, but I think there's going to be a resurgence of recognizing the value that the human touch has for each of us, and that's going to be a really important piece on our journey.

Greg
14:02
Thank you. Adrienne, how about you?

Adrienne
14:08
So my take is I'm actually more afraid of the future when it comes to creativity, because I think it's gonna stifle creativity. The way we're going into the digital world, the more and more we go digital, because there is something to touching things with your hands, even as a child, to be able to mold putty, to be able to form things through right by hand, even right by hand, you remember things in certain parts of your brain, when you use your hands and other different things. But if everybody is using a computer, we're touch, we're going to touch, we're going to do voice text.

Adrienne
14:38
So there's all these different things that we're going to lose from dancing, all these different things that also help you with trauma, that could also help you with development of other creative parts, and you're using different parts of your brain. So we go more into a digital world, you're going to stop, we're going to start losing parts of our brain that we normally would use. Right? So I think with that, we're going to have people that are going to have to bring us back to playing an instrument instead of using a digital form of the instrument.

Adrienne
15:03
Going back to being able to paint because people know that helps you with dealing with some of your trauma and some psychological things. Those kinds of things. So we're going to need advocates like ourselves to go back to the old school. We're going to call it old school now.

Adrienne
15:17
Old school way of doing things that will help unlock other parts of your brain.

Greg
15:24
Yeah, you heard it here first. So it's happened again. You've wasted a perfectly few good minutes listening to the Creative Workout podcast when you could have been doing something different.

Greg
15:35
But what about you? Is there a creative experiment that you've always wanted to try? And what role do you think creativity will play in the world in years to come? Let us know.

Greg
15:45
But in the meantime, thank you for tuning in, come back again tomorrow and we will be here.