Tagged for OEG Connect: Creativity and artificial intelligence - ScienceDirect

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What’s of interest? Creativity and artificial intelligence - ScienceDirect

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Creativity is a fundamental feature of human intelligence, and a challenge for AI. AI techniques can be used to create new ideas in three ways: by producing novel combinations of familiar ideas; by exploring the potential of conceptual spaces; and by making transformations that enable the generation of previously impossible ideas. AI will have less difficulty in modelling the generation of new ideas than in automating their evaluation.

Note this paper by Margaret Boden was published in 1998! It is one in a collection of papers published in ScienceDirect as “Artificial Intelligence 40 years later” https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/artificial-intelligence/vol/103/issue/1

Where is it?: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0004370298000551

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Thank you for sharing this classic and thought-provoking piece!.
Margaret Boden’s insights remain remarkably relevant, even decades later. The idea that AI can generate novel combinations and explore conceptual spaces is fascinating—but the real challenge, as she notes, lies in evaluating creativity itself. That tension between generation and judgment is still at the heart of AI research today.

I appreciate you tagging this under OEGConnect—it’s a great reminder of how foundational work continues to shape our understanding of AI and creativity. Looking forward to more gems like this!

Wisal Alim
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Thank you for sharing - sadly, it looks like Margaret Boden very recently passed away - what a remarkable woman!