The innovative musician Brian Eno did not like the word genius. Instead he coined the term scenius, because he felt genius ideas do not emerge from a lone person but rather they emerge from a scene. In this talk we will look at innovative scenes throughout history, understand the characteristics that show up again and again to support the innovation, and how the innovative process in our brains is a perfect mirror of these external environments. We will then explore the way AI now affects the scene and how to best use AI given how our brains work. This talk will travel across the Silk Road, the physical neurology of how innovation happens in the brain, and how our brains engage with the new artificial brains. And it'll be wicked entertaining.
