{"id":13541,"date":"2015-02-24T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13541"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:01:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:01:57","slug":"ai-artificial-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/ai-artificial-imagination","title":{"rendered":"AI: Artificial Imagination?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Margaret Boden<\/strong> \u2014 IA News<br \/>\n<br \/> Most of us are fascinated by creativity. New ideas in science and art are often hugely exciting \u2013 and, paradoxically, sometimes seemingly \u201cobvious\u201d once they\u2019ve arrived. But how can that be? Many people, perhaps most of us, think there\u2019s no hope of an answer. Creativity is deeply mysterious, indeed almost magical. Any suggestion that there might be a scientific theory of creativity strikes such people as absurd. And as for computer models of creativity, those are felt to be utterly impossible.<\/p>\n<p>But they aren\u2019t. Scientific psychology has identified three different ways in which new, surprising, and valuable ideas \u2013 that is, creative ideas \u2013 can arise in people\u2019s minds. These involve combinational, exploratory, and transformational creativity. The information processes involved can be understood in terms of concepts drawn from Artificial Intelligence (AI). They can even be modelled by computers using AI techniques.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/iainews.iai.tv\/articles\/ai-artificial-imagination-auid-485\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Boden \u2014 IA News Most of us are fascinated by creativity. New ideas in science and art are often hugely exciting \u2013 and, paradoxically, sometimes seemingly \u201cobvious\u201d once they\u2019ve arrived. But how can that be? Many people, perhaps most of us, think there\u2019s no hope of an answer. Creativity is deeply mysterious, indeed almost [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64822,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13541\/revisions\/64822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}