On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't think there's any lack of creativity in the AGI world ... and I > think it's pretty clear that rationality and creativity work together in all > really good scientific work. > > Creativity is about coming up with new ideas. Rationality is about > validating ideas, and deriving their natural consequences. > > They're complementary, not contradictory, within a healthy scientific > thought process... >
I'd say that logic, statistics, etc. are particular well-understood algorithms of intelligence, which we optimized and can now reliably apply to generate and verify knowledge. Creativity lies in the land of unknown algorithms, which people run in their heads without reflective understanding. The fact that we applied our intelligence to optimization of these particular algorithms made them strong enough to make significant contribution to performance of people, even though they don't play significant role in the thought process itself. Coming up with new ideas is fundamentally the same as verifying ideas, since if you come up with ideas that have only 1e-30 chance of working, it's no use. Developing synthetic creativity is one of the aspects of the quest of AGI research, and understood and optimized algorithms of creativity should allow to build ideas that are strong from the beginning, verification part of the process. Although it all sounds kinda warped in this language. -- Vladimir Nesov [email protected] http://causalityrelay.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=123753653-47f84b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
