Harnessing AI to Drive the Creativity Revolution
The human mind is capable of both intelligence and creativity.
While technology experts and journalists focus upon AI, and its impact upon the economy and employment, they overlook human ingenuity’s potential to address challenges posed by AI.
What might surprise them is that humans can harness AI to drive the Creativity Revolution that fuses both human imagination and machine intelligence, which results in “symbiotic genius”.
Let’s begin by understanding that creativity is NOT THE SAME as Intelligence, and the correlation between creativity and intelligence is low (r = 0.174).
Eugene Wigener, who knew both Albert Einstein and John von Neumann, believed Einstein’s imagination and creativity allowed Einstein to surpass von Neumann’s intelligence in producing original work.
Einstein believed that imagination led to infinite possibilities.
Though everyone is born creative, that creative capacity declines over time.
How can we restore creativity, when we need it most to meet the challenges posed by AI?
In his 1961 paper “An Analysis of Creativity”, Mel Rhodes identified 4 P’s of creativity: “Person, Process, Product and Press”, which has become the primary conceptual foundation for creativity research and initiatives.
By redefining the “Person” as “Participant”, we allow “intelligent” machines to participate in the creative process.
We already have human imagination, and machine intelligence. What else do we need to foster and restore creativity?
The mathematization of science drove the Scientific Revolution, and mathematics has become the language of science.
In his new book “‘The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution”, York University profesor David Wootton believes that “a revolution in ideas requires a revolution in language”.
To revolutionize creativity, we need a new language for creativity; not words, but mathematics.
It’s time to mathematize ideas, the raw materials of creativity, to drive the Creativity Revolution, and transform creativity.
Forthcoming stories will include:
- The mathematical structure of ideas, which is in its hypothesis-generating stage — pre-Level 1 of NASA’s TRL
- The creativity revolution’s implication upon the economy, and employment
MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee noted: “the real promise of the second machine age is to help unleash the power of human ingenuity” (The Second Machine Age).
Let’s unleash human ingenuity to allow imagination to surpass automation, and transform the economy and employment for pervasive prosperity.
Note: Professor Brynjolfsson was my MIT thesis advisor.
