So the first question is,
as you look at the present era,
was there ever a moment when you thought
this is truly a new kind of movement or a completely new flaw?
I think that,
yeah, we first saw ChatGPT come out
and saw the functionality there,
We all heard, read, thought about AI for many many years.
But ChatGPT came out in what? November 2023.
That was really a game changer in terms of,
wow, this is something that can really do these things?
And, you know, the technology, the functionality,
the number of companies has only since taken off exponentially since then
So the next question is,
whether it's technology or art,
people often say that at the center of it all is a human being.
So for you, what kind of thought or feeling lies at the core of your work?
I think that what lies at the core of my work
or what I've done with South by Southwest
or what South by Southwest has done is
this belief in human creativity
and how it can manifest in so many different ways.
I mean, that's what we celebrate at South by Southwest, that
humans are the most creative things out there, even more creative than AI
And I think that the importance of human creativity is only going to become
something that we focus on more in the coming years
as AI continues to do more kind of mundane things
and humans can focus on more creative things,
or at least that's the best case scenario here
Looking back, was there a moment or project that shaped who you are today?
Was there a moment or a project that shaped who I am?
I think that just seeing, being part of South by Southwest
having people come up to me and talk about how important an event it was,
that was always my dopamine
To know that you had, or to think that you had some
small impact on people's lives, on incredibly creative people's lives.
And the more I experienced that, the more I wanted to experience that
and continue to create that kind of a platform
where people could come together, find new opportunities, find new ideas, find inspiration.
Again, that to me is incredibly powerful
As AI and humans create together, and as technology and emotion intertwine,
how do you think the content industry or the creative stage will evolve?
And within that, what role do you think humans will play?
I hope that humans will always be the guiders of this technology, the masters of this technology,
as opposed to the technology becoming more important than the humans
In our best case scenarios on AI, I think that
we use the technology to do kind of the again the
rote mundane stuff that that takes a lot of hours but doesn't take a whole lot of skill
and that empowers humans to be even more creative than they are now
What I don't hope is that
we begin to get more lazy and realize that if AI can do this stuff,
then why do we need to even do anything?
And that then becomes or is a kind of
swift journey to the end of human creativity,
and that's something that I don't think any of us want to see
Last question.
If you could leave one sentence for the people here today or the future creatives,
what would it be?
My one sentence for future creatives is
everyone is creative in their own way
It's not that I'm more creative than anyone here
It's not that you're more creative than anyone here
It's just maybe you or I have tapped into it faster, sooner than others
But we all have creativity.
That is a central part of our humanity
and encourage everyone to explore that creativity
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