CategoryCreativity
Podcast: A New Test to Measure Understanding in AI Models
The Turing Test 2.0 is based on the view that intelligence is the ability to extract new knowledge from existing information and apply it consistently across time and context
Is AI Truly Creative? Here Is the Ultimate Test
People use the term “creative” in different ways. We need to define it rigorously and use a test based on that agreed definition
The Limits of What We Can Learn From Studying Creativity
In this third and final part of my essay, I look at what sets us apart from machines: Our capacity to leap from commonsense inferences to entirely new ways of understanding reality
Should We Use Generative AI Chatbots to Spark Our Creativity?
What if we become so disconnected from human ways of knowing that real life relationships, desires, and reality itself begins to shrivel away?
Stranger Things: Why Mad Scientists Are Mad
At the highest levels, creativity seems to bypass the deliberate, structured thought process altogether
The Slow Decline of a Key Aspect of Creativity
The mechanization of mind is changing how we think about creativity — and not in a good way
AI Large Language Models: Real Intelligence or Creative Thievery?
AI lacks originality because it cannot originate. It can only borrow. This is as true of impressive chatbots (large language models or LLMS) as of all other types
Can Evolutionary Processes Take Credit for Human Creativity?
Does the evolution of brain chemistry simply explain novels, speeches, and innovative ideas?
A New McDonald’s PlayPlace Doesn’t Look Very Fun
A virtual playground doesn't offer kids genuine play
Monday Micro Softy 14: How Did the Blind Ticket Seller Know?
This puzzle doesn’t require math skills so much as advanced common sense reasoning
The Monday Micro Softy 10: The Monte Hall Problem
In this case, it comes down to: How badly do you want a goat in your life?
Monday Micro Softy 9: To Flip or Not to Flip?
Probability theory can sometimes help with seemingly impossible questions. But how?
Only in America
My discussion on this week’s podcast with Major General Bobby Hollingsworth (ret.) prompts a look at some of the many people that America has freed to be their best
The Man Behind the First Billion-Dollar AI Business
Robert Hecht-Nielsen (1947‒2019) was a significant figure in the second wave of AI. His company specialized in fraud detection
Micro Softy 5: The Puzzle of Claude and Chloe’s Two Kids
Also, here’s the answer to the puzzle of how, twelve years earlier, Claude escaped the trap Clifton Clowers set for him, so he could marry Chloe
Monday Micro Softy 4: Claude King Bests Clifton Clowers
Clowers offers Claude two slips of paper to choose from on a blind choice: marriage or death...
Monday Micro Softy 3: The Wolverton Mountain Puzzle
Here’s the answer to Dead President’s Club as well — and smart STEM people often DON'T get that one rightMind Matters News is pleased to offer a new series, “Monday Micro Softies,” from our director, Robert J. Marks, a series of puzzles that illustrate the ways of thinking needed in the computer industry today. – Eds. Here’s today’s puzzle, in honor of Claude King, followed by the solution to last Monday’s puzzle, The Dead Presidents Club. In 1962, King recorded the song Wolverton Mountain. It’s the story of Claude’s love of Clifton Clowers’ daughter — we’ll call her Chloe — who lives on the top of Wolverton Mountain. (Listen here.) It’s a catchy tune. Here’s a puzzle augmenting the song’s story: Claude starts climbing to the top of Wolverton Mountain at 6 AM. There is only one road, and Read More ›
Bill Dembski: When a Chatbot Tried Improving on a Literary Genius
If what matters is computer engineering and a supermassive databank, the chatbot should improve on the masters, right?