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2020 | Book

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Cognition and the Creative Machine

Cognitive AI for Creative Problem Solving

Author: Dr. Dr. Ana-Maria Oltețeanu

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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About this book

How would you assemble a machine that can be creative, what would its cogs be? Starting from how humans do creative problem solving, the author has developed a framework to explore whether a diverse set of creative problem-solving tasks can be solved computationally using a unified set of principles. In this book she describes the implementation of related prototype AI systems, and the computational and empirical experiments conducted.

The book will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, and laypeople engaged with ideas in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and creativity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
1. Introduction
Abstract
The story goes that Kekul´e day-dreamt of an Ouroboros symbol (a snake eating its own tail) or a Tibetan knot, when trying to find the structure of the benzene molecule (Fig. 1.1a).
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Rebraiding the Strands: Creativity and Problem Solving, Human and Computational

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2. Creativity, Problem Solving and Insight
Abstract
What are creativity, problem solving, and insight? This section sets to present the conceptual work various researchers have put into defining these terms.
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3. Knowledge Organization for Creative Problem Solving
Abstract
How does creative problem solving work in natural cognitive systems? How could it be implemented in artificial cognitive systems? To answer these questions, one has to start by taking a stance on a question which is more foundational in nature.
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4. Computational Creativity and Systems
Abstract
Computational creativity is, according to some of its major figures (Colton & Wiggins, 2012): The philosophy, science and engineering of computational systems which, by taking on particular responsibilities, exhibit behaviours that unbiased observers would deem to be creative.
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5. Two Types of Evaluation: Human Creativity, Computational Creativity
Abstract
One cannot talk about creativity without discussing the way creativity can be evaluated. In the following, two views on evaluation of creativity will be explored.
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One Ring to Creatively Solve Them All? In Search of a Unified Cognitive Framework

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6. Gathering the Cogs of a Framework
Abstract
How diverse could a group of creative problem solving tasks be, and still manage to remain coherent? This question is the focus of the chapter. Before attempting an answer, it is worth having another look at the classical definition of problem solving, and making room for it to include creative processes as well.
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7. CreaCogs – A Clockwork View of Creativity
Abstract
What would a framework look like, in which all of these tasks, from creative visuospatial inference, to insight problem solving, take place? Let us return to our simple machines (levers and pulleys) example from the previous chapter, and explain creative visuospatial inference a bit further.
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8. The Cogs in Motion – Navigating the Knowledge in CreaCogs
Abstract
Structured representation is a recurrent theme in both artificial intelligence and various theories of cognition. A hypothesis of CreaCogs, set in Chap. 6, is that the lack of useful structure in ill-structured problems must be compensated by a cognitive effort of restructuring. Thus such cognitive processes of restructuring are the precursors, or in some cases the very processes of creativity, in the context of problem solving.
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Empirical and Computational Explorations

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9. What Do Swiss, Cake and Cottage Have in Common? – Computational Explorations of the Remote Associates Test
Abstract
What do Swiss, Cake and Cottage have in common? An unlikely question to come by, unless you happen to be one of the participants in a Remote Associates Test, in the lab of Mednick and Mednick (Mednick & Mednick, 1971).
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10. What Could You Use This Object for? – Object Replacement and Object Composition in a Computational System, and the Alternative Uses Test
Abstract
When a human needs something to drink from, and no cup is available, he is able to use a bowl, a bucket or even a boot for such purposes. The human is thus capable of creative object replacement.
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11. Daily Eurekas About Candles and Strings. Approaching Insight with Practical Insight Problems
Abstract
To have this account of creative problem solving be complete, the mechanisms of the proposed CreaCogs framework needed to be tested on some insight problems.
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12. The Journey Thus Far and the Journey Ahead
Abstract
This book has offered the beginning of an answer to the question – how can we think of creative problem solving in a unified way. Problem solving has been previously defined as searching in a problem space with a certain goal.
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Backmatter
Metadata
Title
Cognition and the Creative Machine
Author
Dr. Dr. Ana-Maria Oltețeanu
Copyright Year
2020
Electronic ISBN
978-3-030-30322-8
Print ISBN
978-3-030-30321-1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30322-8

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