CategoryCreativity
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?
Jason Allen’s Battle With AI Copyright Law
There is no doubt that this commitment warrants a copyright. Allen used Midjourney as a tool and not as the source of his creativity.
Computer Prof: Handing Off Risky Operations to AI Would Be Stupid
When everything went wrong in Space Odyssey 2001, the cause was faulty programming, not the computer deciding to take over, he says.
Computer ‘Creativity’ Is Simply Digital Plagiarism
One outcome is many lawsuits against generative AI companies whose programs snatch and use copyrighted material
AI Going MAD? The Model Collapse Problem Gets More Attention Now
The problem is that the AI can't generate anything new on its own and the old stuff, endlessly recycled at high speeds, begins to erode
How Do Writers Get Paid in an Age When Chatbots “Write” Things?
Are lawsuits against Big Tech really the answer? Much of the territory is uncharted
Generative AI Is Creating a Copyright Crisis for Artists
How does an artist assert copyright when her image was only one of many used to create a new image? How does she make a living if she can’t?
What Chatbots Have Achieved, and What They Haven’t — and Can’t
Chatbots (LLMs) succeeded where the older expert systems I used to work on failed but that does not mean that they are creative