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Creativity in a Nutshell

First, intelligence is situational—there is no such thing as general intelligence. Your brain is one piece in a broader system which includes your body, your environment, other humans, and culture as a whole. Second, it is contextual—far from existing in a vacuum, any individual intelligence will always be both defined and limited by its environme

Erik Larson • The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

AI and the Limits of Language

Yann LeCun noemamag.com

Computers and Creativity · Molly Mielke

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Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."

That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.

There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."

"There is no one way the mind works, because the mind is not one thing. Instead, the mind has parts, and the different parts of the mind operate in different ways: Seeing a color works differently than planning a vacation, which works differently than understanding a sentence, moving a limb, remembering a fact, or feeling an emotion.” Trying to squ... See more

Gary Marcus • Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall

You Don’t Need Words to Think

Gary Stix scientificamerican.com

In 1964, neuropsychologist Roger Sperry drew an analogy between neurons and ideas:

Ideas cause ideas and help evolve new ideas. They interact with each other and with other mental forces in the same brain, in neighboring brains, and thanks to global communication, in far distant, foreign brains.

Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity

But Herbert Simon, a cautious student of these matters, has said that “Insofar as we understand what processes are involved in human creativity—and we are beginning to have a very good understanding of them -none of the processes involved in human creativity appear to lie beyond the reach of computers.”