Margaret Boden - created from Mind Map

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Definition of creativity: Creativity is the ability to generate ideas that are novel, surprising, and valuable.

Boden's work could be tied up to:

Novel

Surprising

Valuable

Computer creativity

Levels and styles

Geir Kaufman

Orginality (Novelty), Creativity (Validity), Invention (Increment), Innovation (Realization)

Psychological creativity)

History creativity

If a new idea is novel with respect to the person/system concerned

To understand how creativity is possible, it is psychological creativity that is crucial

If a new idea is novel with respect to the whole of human history

Boden distinguishes between combinatorial, exploratory and transformational creativity.

Combinatoral - Knew that it could happen, but didn't expect it (e.g. small football club beat a large one).

Exploratory – A novel idea that suprises by making us see that it had been possbile all along

Transformational – Something that had seemed impossible, given the previous way of thinking.

Brainwriting is a technique that could be appropriate to facilitate it.

This is a more a developmental option

Brainstorming is a technique that could be appropriate to facilitate it.

Visually Identifying Relationship is a technique that could be appropriate to facilitate it.

This is a more a exploratory option

"Valuable" can mean many different things (e.g. interesting, fruitful, useful, economical ...)

The greatest obstacles to computer creativity are the computer's lack of knowledge, the difficulty of producing truly radical transformations, and the elusiveness of values.

Artificial intellience (AI) - The study of how to make computers do the sorts of things that human minds can do)

Kunstig intelligens / maskinlæring