Human creativity and AI: Catching up with Chris Pirillo
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🗓️ 16 September 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Chris Pirillo is an entrepreneur, creator, event organizer, and online community leader who has been a guide to the world of tech for everyday users since the early days of the web.
On this episode of the GeekWire Podcast, we catch up with Chris about his latest project, CreatorTech.net, an email newsletter and monthly meetup focused on the intersection of creativity and artificial intelligence. The next CreatorTech meetup is scheduled for Monday, Sept. 25, at the Microsoft Reactor in Redmond.
We also discuss some of the latest AI and tech tools that Chris has been finding useful, and hear his take on corporate return-to-office mandates — spoiler alert, he's not a fan!
- Chris Pirillo on the new iPhone 15, and the edited take discussed on the show.
- The latest CreatorTech email with a list of 25 AI tools to check out.
- Our last GeekWire Podcast/Radio conversation with Chris in June 2013.
With GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop. Edited by Curt Milton.
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| 0:00.0 | I feel like even though we've had quote unquote AI for a number of years whether you call it pattern recognition or was it AGI where is that the |
| 0:10.1 | TLA artificial general intelligence that's right all right I got that right so I I sometimes feel like I'm not even a G. I'm that I'm still your G I I'm O G I Yeah, oh G OGI organic well whoa that's good. |
| 0:25.0 | Whoa that's good did you just coin that OGI that OGI that's I perfect I might have you |
| 0:30.6 | inserted the coin and it's not game over so |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome to GeekWire. I'm Todd Bishop. We are coming to you from Seattle |
| 0:42.0 | Where we get to report each day on what's |
| 0:43.5 | happening around us in business, technology, and innovation. What happens here |
| 0:47.6 | matters everywhere and every week on this show we talk about some of the most |
| 0:50.8 | interesting stories and trends in the news. This week, AI and |
| 0:55.7 | the future of creativity. I'm talking with Chris Perillo, an entrepreneur and creator himself, known for Locker Nome and Nome Decks over the years who is now |
| 1:06.0 | the instigator of something new called Creator Tech.net. |
| 1:10.0 | Let's just jump in right now to the conversation with Chris. |
| 1:13.0 | Chris Perillo, it has been so long since we've talked live. |
| 1:17.0 | In fact, I know exactly how long it's been, do you? |
| 1:20.0 | Oh, uh, no. It has been 10 years. 10 years since we've done the GeekWire |
| 1:28.5 | podcast together. In fact, do you remember where we did it? |
| 1:34.0 | Yeah, it was somewhere in Seattle, South Lake Union-ish area, wasn't it? |
| 1:39.0 | Cairo Radio. |
| 1:40.0 | It was in a radio studio. |
| 1:41.0 | That's how long ago it was. |
| 1:43.6 | So, is radio still around? |
| 1:45.1 | Yeah, last I checked. |
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