Isabelle Levent
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Isabelle Levent
The deepest cases of creativity involve someone’s thinking something which, with respect to the conceptual spaces in their minds, they couldn’t have thought before. The supposedly impossible idea can come about only if the creator changes the pre-existing style in some way. It must be tweaked, or even radically transformed, so that tho
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Creative—Critical—Constructive —Collaborative—Computational: Towards a C5 model in Creative AI
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The you you are today is not the you you were yesterday.
Another week, another AI experiment using #dalle2 and @runwayml
This time AI was used to animated face masks, generate jewelry and create organic rock formations
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What’s difficult is to state our aesthetic values clearly enough to enable the program itself to make the evaluation at each generation.
Margaret Boden • Creativity in a Nutshell
Thoughtful attention to detail requires discipline and objectivity. It entails accepting standards and limitations that forbid the indulgence of impulse or whim. It is this selflessness that, in connection with bullshit, strikes us as inapposite. But in fact it is not out of the question at all. The realms of advertising and of public relations, an
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Because creativity by definition involves not only novelty but value, and because values are highly variable, it follows that many arguments about creativity are rooted in disagreements about value.
Margaret Boden • Creativity in a Nutshell
This is posing questions to writers everywhere: Which parts of writing are so tedious you’d be happy to see them go? Which parts bring you the inexplicable joy of creating something from nothing? And what is it about writing you hold most dear?
Katy Gero • AI Reveals the Most Human Parts of Writing
What do you do when you know that the environment is going to change but you want to have other members of your species that are reasonably well aligned? Caregiving is one of the things that we do to make that happen. Every time we raise a new generation of children, we’re faced with this difficulty of
here are these intelligences, they’re new, the... See more
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