This document discusses creativity and AI. It notes that while early predictions were that computers would surpass humans at chess by 2010, AI like AlphaGo in 2017 demonstrated creativity and intuition in games. However, AI reduces knowledge to explicit rules and learning to reinforcement rather than full human learning. The document questions if AI can truly be creative on its own but suggests AI can help human creativity by finding unexpected connections in data to help people think 'outside the box'.

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3. Within 10 years the world
champion in chess will be
a computer
Herbert Simon (1957)
1997

4. AlphaGo demonstrated
creativity and intuition
Demis Hassabis (2017)
AlphaGo, AlphaGo Zero, Alpha Zero

5. Reducing knowledge to
explicit knowledge
Reducing learning to
reinforcement learning

6. ≡? =? ≥? ≤? ≈? ≠?
HUMAN MACHINE
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7. A novel and useful idea
Teresa Amabile (1983)
Novel and useful ideas, problem
solutions, or other outputs
Teresa Amabile (2019)
We need ‘appropriate judges’ to
assess how creative an idea is.

8. Can AI be creative?
Probably not, certainly not in the same sense as humans
What can AI do for human creativity?
Pre-processing: AI is “analytics on steroids” (Thomas Davenport)
Can find, but not recognise, the unexpected
The surprising part: AI can help us think ‘outside the box’.