Steve Brown delivered a groundbreaking keynote at LEAP Deepfest 2024, exploring how empathic AI is revolutionizing learning and creativity. He demonstrated AI-powered avatars modeled on great thinkers, enabling students to engage directly with figures like Aristotle and Frida Kahlo. Brown highlighted how AI can radically boost productivity, sharing his own experience of being 100x more efficient with AI tools since the pandemic. He also showcased how these avatars are transforming education, teaching students to code digital art and music interactively. The talk offered a compelling vision of AI as a tool for personalized, immersive learning and unprecedented human empowerment.