Imagination Performance: Thinking Beyond GPT
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In light of ChatGPT and the growing generative AI technologies, this presentation revisits my 2020 article on the need for Imagination Performance through the 2023 lens. Much has changed in three years in the technology front but nothing has changed in the human front. We still need meaning and to feel connected. This presentation surfaces the real human value proposition beyond generative AI tools. Lydia Kostopoulos, PhD LKCYBER.COM
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- 2. Dr. Lydia Kostopoulos Art Fashion Advisor Lydia Kostopoulos, PhD @LKCYBER
- 3. 1 2 3 4 Agenda LKCYBER.COM Imagination Performance Exponential Mindset Humans vs Machine: Discover your/our humanity Era of Cultural Curators & Navigators: Brand experience centered on identity & values A call for “Imagination Performance”
- 4. 1 2 3 4 Agenda LKCYBER.COM Imagination Performance Exponential Mindset Humans vs Machine: Discover your/our humanity Era of Cultural Curators & Navigators: Brand experience centered on identity & values A call for “Imagination Performance”
- 5. Imagination Performance LKCYBER.COM 1 Exponential Mindset In an era of revolutionary technological change, it is important to exercise the evolutionary mind into a revolutionary one.
- 6. Imagination Performance LKCYBER.COM 1 Exponential Mindset 6 D’s of the Exponential Technology Growth Path Source: ”Bold” by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler Digitized Deceptive Disruptive Demonetized Dematerialized Democratized 1 2 3 4 5 6
- 8. Imagination Performance LKCYBER.COM 1 Exponential Mindset Source: https://istart.com.au/opinion-article/cios-must-master-s-curve/ Exponential technological change affects every industry. The accelerated compounded S curve is part of every industry. Those who know how to ride it will be the most successful in this era of new and changing value chains.
- 9. Technology does not take away jobs, it levels up the industry and talent in it. Only if organizations and professionals want it to. Imagination Performance LKCYBER.COM 1 Exponential Mindset
- 10. Imagination Performance LKCYBER.COM 1 Exponential Mindset 1. You understand the power of exponential growth 2. You use the “6 Ds” as a “roadmap” to predict the future of your business 3. You seek to reinvent your business model by leveraging exponential (ex: AI, VR, 3D printing etc) technologies and understand that they are disrupting and transforming business models and industries. 4. You understand the power of the crowd. 5. You seek to become a data-driven, experimentalist company.
- 11. 1 2 3 4 Agenda LKCYBER.COM Imagination Performance Exponential Mindset Humans vs Machine: Discover your/our humanity Era of Cultural Curators & Navigators: Brand experience centered on identity & values A call for “Imagination Performance”
- 12. Imagination Performance LKCYBER.COM 2 Humans vs Machine: Discover your/our humanity Source: Sequoia Capital It is time to redefine the story of what our jobs are and what value we deliver.
- 13. Imagination Performance LKCYBER.COM 2 Humans vs Machine: Discover your/our humanity Ada Lovelace’s rhetoric on this is a powerful case in point: If computers can only do what they are programmed to do, how can their behaviour ever be called creative? “ ” Through her work and research, she had emphasised that independent learning is an essential feature of creativity. She held the view that technology would never be able to engage in independent learning.
- 14. Imagination Performance LKCYBER.COM 2 Humans vs Machine: Discover your/our humanity
- 15. Imagination Performance LKCYBER.COM 2 Humans vs Machine: Discover your/our humanity Access to information was scarce and expensive Information became more accessible for those in urban environments and a certain socio-economic class Information Overload for everyone: Knowledge became scarce Insight became a commodity Sense-making and meaningful value became scarce
- 16. Imagination Performance LKCYBER.COM 2 Humans vs Machine: Discover your/our humanity We now have new: • Means for self-expression • Ways to deliver brand experiences • Tools for creatives • Business models and value chains
- 17. Imagination Performance LKCYBER.COM 2 Humans vs Machine: Discover your/our humanity Expanded and extended sense of selves “He's built to scale Luka's presence across every medium: short-form video, games, film & television, XR, retail, OOH, and beyond.” @jaypeters
- 18. Imagination Performance LKCYBER.COM 2 Humans vs Machine: Discover your/our humanity Extended Selves (even beyond sickness and death)
- 19. Imagination Performance LKCYBER.COM 2 Humans vs Machine: Discover your/our humanity Artificial Intelligence Relationships • That are immersive • Create a bond • Heal • Teach • Offer companionship • Become co-creators of “X” • Become surrogate lovers
- 20. Imagination Performance LKCYBER.COM 2 Humans vs Machine: Discover your/our humanity What does this mean? And that • Technology is removing barriers and limitations • Anything is possible • Anything can be created. By anyone. What does this mean? It means everyone can make magic.
- 21. Imagination Performance LKCYBER.COM 2 Humans vs Machine: Discover your/our humanity What is scarce and valuable today? • Being able to meaningfully connect with audiences. • Tapping into our humanity in the form of sincere and thoughtful empathy • Awe and wonder • Feeling identified as part of a community Gorillaz – Skinny Ape Immersive Live Performance NYC
- 22. 1 2 3 4 Agenda LKCYBER.COM Imagination Performance Exponential Mindset Humans vs Machine: Discover your/our humanity Era of Cultural Curators & Navigators: Brand experience centered on identity & values A call for “Imagination Performance”
- 23. Meaning comes from contextual value. Contextual value requires cultural fluency. Acquiring cultural fluency requires openness and empathy. Imagination Performance LKCYBER.COM 3 Era of Cultural Curators & Navigators: Brand experience centered on identity & values
- 24. Recognize where we are We have an abundance of food but a scarcity of health. Thousands of friends and likes but we are the loneliest we have ever been. Our identities are shifting and dynamically expanding. Both on and offline. Demographics aren’t what they used to be and that matters today more than anytime before. Imagination Performance LKCYBER.COM 3 Era of Cultural Curators & Navigators: Brand experience centered on identity & values
- 25. Imagination Performance LKCYBER.COM 3 Era of Cultural Curators & Navigators: Brand experience centered on identity & values The magic won’t come from AI, Robotics, Quantum, Synthetic Biology, Space or Big Data It will come from humans who: • Give themselves permission to imagine • Wear their heart on their sleeve • Practice and lean into empathy and compassion
- 26. 1 2 3 4 Agenda LKCYBER.COM Imagination Performance Exponential Mindset Humans vs Machine: Discover your/our humanity Era of Cultural Curators & Navigators: Brand experience centered on identity & values A call for “Imagination Performance”
- 27. Imagination Performance LKCYBER.COM 4 A call for “Imagination Performance” • Adopt an Abundance and Growth Mindset • Seek Novelty • Engage with other cultural activities • Explore other communities and practices • Engage with your own (shifting) identity • Practice self-compassion • Go to the Dubai Future Museum
- 28. Imagination Performance LKCYBER.COM 4 A call for “Imagination Performance” Popular Mechanics 2020
- 29. Imagination Performance LKCYBER.COM 4 A call for “Imagination Performance” Future of live sports: AR immersive live experiences: Watch live at every stadium around the world. Stadiums make money. Licensing options increase as does revenue. Below is a rendition (MidJourney) of what that could look like. Future of performing arts: AR immersive live experiences: Simultaneous and in nature. Below is a rendition (MidJourney) of an evening ballet performance on top of Lake Como in Italy. Space Tech will be a key player in these experiences 2023 Food for Imaginative Thought
- 30. Sapien2-0.com Fun. Timely. Provocative. Try it out! LKCYBER.COM