What is it about?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) cannot be creative in the same sense as humans are. An easy argument for this can be made along the dimensions of knowledge and learning. First, AI can only include explicit knowledge, while much of human knowledge is tacit and all knowledge is rooted in tacit. Second, AI, and specifically Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) learn through a variant of reinforcement learning. We, humans, learn very little that way, but we are talented for some things and not for others, we get inspired, we observe what others do, and we engage in master-apprentice relationships. Here are a few better questions: Is there a different conceptualisation of creativity, that can apply to AI? How can we use AI to support and improve human creativity? I explore these questions in depth in this chapter.

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Why is it important?

Through studying AI we also gain a better understanding of the unique capabilities of the human mind, mainly from what AI cannot do. At the same time, this can help us utilise AI to its fullest potential. Furthermore, we can figure out how to support smart humans with smart technology and achieve the most extraordinary things.

Perspectives

Having spent a few decades developing AI and studying the human mind, I do not believe that AI can think or create in the human sense of the word. However, I do believe that AI is one of the finest achievements of humankind and that we just started to harness the benefits of this amazing technology.

Dr Viktor Dörfler
University of Strathclyde

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This page is a summary of: Artificial Intelligence, January 2020, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-809324-5.23863-7.
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