Creativity Reconsidered: Generative AI and the Problem of Intentional Agency
arXiv:2601. 15797v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many theorists maintain that conscious intentional agency is a necessary condition of creativity.
arXiv:2607. 20796v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper examines the question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can be creative, approached from the dual perspective of a researcher trained in electrical engineering, pattern recognition, machine learning, and neural networks, who has also spent most of his life engaged in the arts as actor, stage and film director, writer, composer, and visual artist, and in philosophy.
arXiv:2601. 15797v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many theorists maintain that conscious intentional agency is a necessary condition of creativity.
arXiv:2607. 17940v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper frames Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) not as an unprecedented technological rupture, but as an industrial-scale manifestation of a deeply rooted historical process.
arXiv:2606. 13196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent AI systems can generate texts, software architectures, hypotheses, designs, and scientific workflows that appear creative.
arXiv:2606. 13196v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent AI systems can generate texts, software architectures, hypotheses, designs, and scientific workflows that appear creative.
arXiv:2606. 00807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional artificial intelligence has largely conceptualized intelligence as isolated computation occurring within bounded agents.
arXiv:2606. 00807v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Traditional artificial intelligence has largely conceptualized intelligence as isolated computation occurring within bounded agents.
arXiv:2510. 20091v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Creativity is often seen as a hallmark of human intelligence.
Generative AI tools for creative work tend to be designed around the goal of removing friction, on the assumption that smoother iteration and faster output translate into more value for the designer. We argue, however, that this framing leaves out something important about how design ideation works, namely reflection-in-action.
arXiv:2606. 05532v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent studies reveal a paradox: AI enhances individual creative outputs while reducing collective diversity.
arXiv:2606. 11762v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in language understanding, reasoning, and generation, sparking growing interest in their creative potential.
arXiv:2608. 16213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intelligence is constituted by \textit{process} (iterative activity through which output emerges), not in the output itself.
arXiv:2607. 26827v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative AI tools for creative work tend to be designed around the goal of removing friction, on the assumption that smoother iteration and faster output translate into more value for the designer.