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The recent surge of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to claims that they are approaching a level of creativity akin to human capabilities. This idea has sparked a blend of excitement and apprehension. However, a critical piece that has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Antoine Bellemare-Pepin , François Lespinasse , Philipp Thölke , Yann Harel , Kory Mathewson , Jay A. Olson , Yoshua Bengio , Karim Jerbi

Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) technologies have transformed the computer science discipline of natural language processing. However, generative AI retains the anthropomorphic model of simulating…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Dejan Grba , Vladimir Todorović

The ability to combine existing concepts into novel ideas stands as a fundamental hallmark of human intelligence. Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like GPT-4V and DALLE-3 have sparked debate about whether their outputs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Yongqian Peng , Yuxi Ma , Mengmeng Wang , Yuxuan Wang , Yizhou Wang , Chi Zhang , Yixin Zhu , Zilong Zheng

In the last years the debate on complexity has been developing and developing in transdisciplinary way to meet the need of explanation for highly organized collective behaviors and sophisticated hierarchical arrangements in physical,…

General Physics · Physics 2010-04-26 Ignazio Licata

Well-defined jokes can be divided neatly into a setup and a punchline. While most works on humor today talk about a joke as a whole, the idea of generating punchlines to a setup has applications in conversational humor, where funny remarks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Tanishq Chaudhary , Mayank Goel , Radhika Mamidi

Compositionality is believed to be fundamental to intelligence. In humans, it underlies the structure of thought, language, and higher-level reasoning. In AI, compositional representations can enable a powerful form of out-of-distribution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Eric Elmoznino , Thomas Jiralerspong , Yoshua Bengio , Guillaume Lajoie

Generative AI, i.e., the group of technologies that automatically generate visual or written content based on text prompts, has undergone a leap in complexity and become widely available within just a few years. Such technologies…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Nanna Inie , Jeanette Falk , Steven Tanimoto

This chapter explores the cognitive mechanisms underlying the emergence and evolution of cultural novelty. Section Two summarizes the rationale for viewing the process by which the fruits of the mind take shape as they spread from one…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-11 Liane Gabora

Human conceptual knowledge supports the ability to generate novel yet highly structured concepts, and the form of this conceptual knowledge is of great interest to cognitive scientists. One tradition has emphasized structured knowledge,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Reuben Feinman , Brenden M. Lake

We introduce a complex systems perspective on innovation in networks in which innovation is conceptualized as a form of creative act associated with the dynamics and evolution of business network. We show how innovation is a form of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-03-08 Ian Wilkinson , Louise Young

Developing AI literacy is increasingly urgent as generative AI reshapes creative practice. Yet most AI literacy frameworks are top-down and expert-driven, overlooking how literacy emerges organically in creative communities. To address this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Haidan Liu , Poorvi Bhatia , Nicholas Vincent , Parmit Chilana

Creativity is a critical skill that professional software engineers leverage to tackle difficult problems. In higher education, multiple efforts have been made to spark creative skills of engineering students. However, creativity is a vague…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Wouter Groeneveld , Laurens Luyten , Joost Vennekens , Kris Aerts

This thesis investigates the generation of new concepts from combinations of existing concepts as a language evolves. We give a method for combining concepts, and will be investigating the utility of composite concepts in language evolution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Martha Lewis , Jonathan Lawry

The importance of innovation in the world's economy, now undeniable, draws great attention to the need to improve organizations' creative potential. In the last 60 years, hundreds of books have been written on the subject and hundreds of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Sophie Morin , Jean-Marc Robert , Liane Gabora

Clustering artworks based on style can have many potential real-world applications like art recommendations, style-based search and retrieval, and the study of artistic style evolution of an artist or in an artwork corpus. We introduce and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Abhishek Dangeti , Pavan Gajula , Vivek Srivastava , Vikram Jamwal

The goal of this study was to investigate the translate-ability of creative works into other domains. We tested whether people were able to recognize which works of art were inspired by which pieces of music. Three expert painters created…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-11 Apara Ranjan , Liane Gabora , Brian O'Connor

As LLMs become increasingly prevalent, it is interesting to consider how ``creative'' these models can be. From cognitive science, creativity consists of at least two key characteristics: \emph{convergent} thinking (purposefulness to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yining Lu , Dixuan Wang , Tianjian Li , Dongwei Jiang , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Meng Jiang , Daniel Khashabi

Creativity is a fundamental pillar of human expression and a driving force behind innovation, yet it now stands at a crossroads. As artificial intelligence advances at an astonishing pace, the question arises: can machines match and…

General Economics · Economics 2024-09-30 Anne-Gaëlle Maltese , Pierre Pelletier , Rémy Guichardaz

The introduction of new tools in people's workflow has always been promotive of new creative paths. This paper discusses the impact of using computational tools in the performance of creative tasks, especially focusing on graphic design.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Daniel Lopes , Jéssica Parente , Pedro Silva , Licínio Roque , Penousal machado

Research on emergent patterns in Large Language Models (LLMs) has gained significant traction in both psychology and artificial intelligence, motivating the need for a comprehensive review that offers a synthesis of this complex landscape.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Zhisheng Tang , Mayank Kejriwal