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The common view that our creativity is what makes us uniquely human suggests that incorporating research on human creativity into generative deep learning techniques might be a fruitful avenue for making their outputs more compelling and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Steve DiPaola , Liane Gabora , Graeme McCaig

What drives exploration? Understanding intrinsic motivation is a long-standing challenge in both cognitive science and artificial intelligence; numerous objectives have been proposed and used to train agents, yet there remains a gap between…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Aly Lidayan , Yuqing Du , Eliza Kosoy , Maria Rufova , Pieter Abbeel , Alison Gopnik

Human culture is uniquely cumulative and open-ended. Using a computational model of cultural evolution in which neural network based agents evolve ideas for actions through invention and imitation, we tested the hypothesis that this is due…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Liane Gabora , Maryam Saberi

Immersion in a creative task can be an intimate experience. It can feel like a mystery: intangible, inexplicable, and beyond the reach of science. However, science is making exciting headway into understanding creativity. While the mind of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-09 Alexandra Maland , Liane Gabora

A fascinating hypothesis is that human and animal intelligence could be explained by a few principles (rather than an encyclopedic list of heuristics). If that hypothesis was correct, we could more easily both understand our own…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Anirudh Goyal , Yoshua Bengio

Human creativity generates novel ideas to solve real-world problems. This thereby grants us the power to transform the surrounding world and extend our human attributes beyond what is currently possible. Creative ideas are not just new and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Georgi V. Georgiev , Danko D. Georgiev

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have achieved human-scale speed and accuracy for classification tasks. In turn, these capabilities have made AI a viable replacement for many human activities that at their core involve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Hadi Esmaeilzadeh , Reza Vaezi

The human brain is the substrate for human intelligence. By simulating the human brain, artificial intelligence builds computational models that have learning capabilities and perform intelligent tasks approaching the human level. Deep…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-20 Barco Jie You

What drives an agent to explore the world while also maintaining control over the environment? From a child at play to scientists in the lab, intelligent agents must balance curiosity (the drive to seek knowledge) with competence (the drive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Fryderyk Mantiuk , Hanqi Zhou , Charley M. Wu

The generative capabilities of deep learning neural networks (DNNs) have been attracting increasing attention for both the remarkable artifacts they produce, but also because of the vast conceptual difference between how they are programmed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Lonce Wyse

Large Language Models have achieved remarkable performance on reasoning tasks, motivating research into how this ability evolves during training. Prior work has primarily analyzed this evolution via explicit generation outcomes, treating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Siyuan Zhang , Jialian Li , Yichi Zhang , Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su

This article questions the widespread assumption that there are brain representations that will always remain unconscious in the sense of being inaccessible to individual awareness under any circumstances. This implies that some part of the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-23 Birgitta Dresp-Langley

This paper demonstrates emergence of computational creativity in the field of music. Different aspects of creativity such as producer, process, product and press are studied and formulated. Different notions of computational creativity such…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Subodh Deolekar , Siby Abraham

The theory of natural selection cannot describe how early life evolved, in part because acquired characteristics are passed on through horizontal exchange. It has been proposed that culture, like life, began with the emergence of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-09-16 Liane Gabora

A conceptual system with rich connotation is key to improving the performance of knowledge-based artificial intelligence systems. While a conceptual system, which has abundant concepts and rich semantic relationships, and is developable,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Hui Wei

The evidence on the effects of generative AI (GenAI) on critical thinking is mixed, with studies suggesting both potential harms and benefits depending on its implementation. Some argue that AI-driven provocations, such as questions asking…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Thomas Şerban von Davier , Hao-Ping Lee , Jodi Forlizzi , Sauvik Das

Over the last few decades, a lot of progress has been made in understanding different aspects of the brain's ability to form abstract representations, but a specific mechanism for how they are created and used remains to emerge. Here, we…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-02 Prashant C. Raju

How did the human species evolve the capacity not just to communicate complex ideas to one another but to hold such conversations from across the globe, using remote devices constructed from substances that do not exist in the natural…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-09 Liane Gabora , Anne Russon

Generative AI is rapidly transforming how organizations create value and evaluate talent. While large language models enhance baseline output quality, they simultaneously introduce ambiguity in assessing human creativity, as observable…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yigal Rosen , Ilia Rushkin

Creativity, defined as the tendency to generate or recognize new ideas or alternatives and to make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, is too vast a horizon to be summed up in such a simple sentence. The extreme abstractness…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-02-28 Souparno Roy , Archi Banerjee , Ranjan Sengupta , Dipak Ghosh