Creative Problem Solving Institute 2025

Exploring the human-machine interactions for all steps of CPS

Literally taking participants through the basics of LLM and image generative AI formats to show how AI can fuel increased creativity but not provide the best ideas without human interaction.

I’ll run an exercise (invent a snack food item) where participants will find the most relevant market to address, ideate food items, create packaging, and present their final products at the end of the session.

Clarify: What market to address, what themes fit the market, what’s trending in.
Ideate: Names, conceptual themes, trend ingredients.
Develop: refine the idea to fit the market
Ideate: Package design, marketing campaign ideas
Develop: refine the packaging and campaign into a direction for the skit / commercial
Implement: Present your idea with an acted out “commercial” then a quick (less than one minute) description of how AI helped you, but didn’t answer the prompt without your help.

That process runs Human-AI-Human-AI-Human etc. Never AI-AI-AI, nor Human-Human-Human. The result is like the chess example that proved that a human-machine pairing is superior to either human or machine alone.

The project (workshop) is designed to neither advocate for or against AI, but to show how this exciting new tool can be leveraged in creativity. The result is that participants see how to use AI well instead of being concerned about it or accusing AI of doing things it can’t.