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Pure machine authorship is impossible to imagine without an autonomy sufficient to pass the [Lovelace Test]. In a manner similar to that of Wolfgang von Kempelen’s famous chess-playing machine (often called “The Turk”), a purported automaton that convinced countless observers in the eighteenth and nineteenth century of the possibility of machine... - http://carvalhais.tumblr.com/post...
"Pure machine authorship is impossible to imagine without an autonomy sufficient to pass the [Lovelace..." http://carvalhais.tumblr.com/post...
People often claim that talk of ‘rules’ and ‘constraints’ — especially in the context of computer programs — must be irrelevant to creativity, which is an expression of human freedom. But far from being the antithesis of creativity, constraints n thinking are what make it possible. This is true even for combinatorial creativity, but it applies... - http://carvalhais.tumblr.com/post...
"People often claim that talk of ‘rules’ and ‘constraints’ — especially in the context of computer..." http://carvalhais.tumblr.com/post...
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Polya recommended (among other things) that one break the unsolved problem into smaller problems that are easier to tackle, or try to think of a similar problem which one already knows how to solve. He suggested that, if you are stuck, you should ask: What is the unknown? What are the data? Have I used all the data? Can I draw a diagram? Can I... - http://carvalhais.tumblr.com/post...
The very idea, it is often said, is intrinsically absurd: computers cannot create, because they can do only what they are programmed to do. The first person to publish this argument was Lady Ada Lovelace, the close friend of Charles Babbage — whose mid-nineteenth-century ‘Analytical Engine’ was, in essence, a design for a digital computer.... - http://carvalhais.tumblr.com/post...
creativity can happen in three main ways, which correspond to the three sorts of surprise. (…) The first involves making unfamiliar combinations of familiar ideas. Examples include poetic imagery, collage in painting or textile art, and analogies. These new combinations can be generated either deliberately or, often, unconsciously. Think of a... - http://carvalhais.tumblr.com/post...
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