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The Firehouse Salon
We are living through the most significant shift in human creativity since Gutenberg. While may are stuck in a conversation about fear, replacement and redundancy the Firehouse Salon is having a different conversation entirely.
Each episode brings together unexpected guests at the intersection of creativity, science, art, technology and innovation, curious people who are leaning into this moment rather than away from it.
This is the age of the Tediophobe: people driven by a desire to explore, to make something worth making. The Firehouse Salon is their podcast.
The Firehouse Salon
Ep 40 - Can a Machine Have Good Taste?
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I was interested in what was going on with Openclaw and heard that Lan Wei, a PHD at MBZUAI had won a hackathon experimenting with the edges of a new technology. Turns out her keen interest is the intersection between AI and storytelling.
We talked about the reasoning behind creative choices and explored the idea of chaos in agentic systems ad their iteraction with humans creatively.
We debated whether taste can be educated, examined the value of inefficiency and what makes life worth living.